Patrick Magee
Author
Description
An enduring peace is only possible through a genuine understanding of the past. To understand the Troubles is to set them in the context of the historical root causes of the conflict, in order to grapple with its pain and its horrors; to grieve and then, perhaps, to heal.
This is the memoir of Patrick Magee, the man who planted the 1984 Brighton bomb – an attempt by the Provisional IRA to kill the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and...
2) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an England of the future, Alex and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," while jauntily warbling "Singin' in the Rain." After he's jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex submits to behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he's conditioned to abhor violence. Returned to the world defenseless, Alex becomes the victim of his prior victims....
5) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
6) Barry Lyndon
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (185 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick's lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of BARRY LYNDON, Esq.. Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O'Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He...
8) Dementia 13
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Haloran has a heart attack. His wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance from his mother's estate if he is dead. She forges a letter from him to convince his family he's in NY on business to ensure a cut of the inheritance. His sister had also drowned and the family enact a morbid ritual in remembrance.
9) Luther
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Martin Luther and his eventual condemnation of the Catholic Church and incitement of the Protestant reformation.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tales of the crypt: When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely, and unavoidable deaths.
Vault of horror: Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped with...
Series
Roger Corman collection volume 2
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (167 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The young racers: Racing champion William Campbell has it all-- money, fame and all the women he wants, even though he's married. But when Campbell seduces the fiancée of former champ Mark Damon, Damon decides to jump back into the driver's seat and show his arrogant successor what being a champion really means. As the best of the best burn rubber before a captivated world, their rivalry speeds them toward a fiery climax that has to be seen to be...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
In the bonus play, "Mrs. Landfrey and her three children return to England after 18 years abroad, where a chance encounter with their traditionalist husband and father quickly entangles them in a series of comic events"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...