Alun Armstrong
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Julie Walters and Robert Lindsay star in a story of lust, loot and a show to set pulses racing. Maureen Hardcastle is furious when husband Jimmy brings in strippers to boost their pub takings, but on the opening night, she is reunited with a long lost school friend, who turns out to be the star act, and her boyfriend manager, Billy Bowmans. When Maureen unexpectedly inherits a fortune she decides to turn the tables on the men but Billy has no intention...
3) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
5) Dark angel
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Mary Ann Cotton is a cold blooded Victorian serial killer who kills three husbands and eleven children.
6) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...