Ralph Richardson
2) Khartoum
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Chronicles Britain's crisis in the Sudan and the siege at Khartoum in 1883.
6) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Appears on list
Description
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
10) Watership down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A band of rabbits escapes the threatened collapse of their highly developed civilization only to find the same dangers (predatory men and beasts, and a totalitarian state imposed by their own species) in their new domain. Animated.
11) Doctor Zhivago
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
James Tyrone is an aging actor and an alcoholic miser who has spent a lifetime treading on the spirit of his dope-addicted wife, Mary. His oldest son Jamie is a troublemaking alcoholic who is envious of the writing talent of his sickly younger brother, Edmund. The three Tyrone men will spend a hellish night together when they sit about drunkenly while Mary hallucinates about her younger and happier days.
14) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Beautiful Anna Karenina is comfortably married to a Russian statesman until she falls in love with a dashing young soldier. When she runs away with the officer, she is ostracized by society, denied a divorce by her husband and forbidden to see her son. The hopelessness of her situation prompts Anna to believe life is no longer worth living.
15) The 300 Spartans
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
16) Richard III
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...
Series
Criterion collection volume 583
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Description
With cannon fire igniting the North African skies, the British cavalry charges into battle to capture the strategic city of Khartoum. In the midst of the devastating carnage, a horrified officer resigns from his post. But he soon finds his shame is greater than his fear, and he returns to save his honor - and the friends he betrayed - at any cost.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
The inheritance: "From Louisa May Alcott comes this passionate story of forbidden love and dangerous rivalry in 19th century New England. Beautiful orphan Edith Adelon lives as a paid companion to the wealthy Hamilton family's daughter, Amy. When Edith falls in love with an eligible bachelor -- visiting to court a Hamilton cousin -- she struggles to make sense of her position within the household"--Container.
Love among the ruins: "Past lovers Arthur...