Richard Attenborough
1) Magic
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
2) Grey Owl
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
3) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in the nineteenth century, retells the story of Prince Hamlet who plots revenge after he discovers his uncle murdered his father, the king.
4) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Story of the horrors of apartheid, based on the true story of the friendship between white newspaper reporter Donald Woods and South African Black activist Stephen Biko.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Stanley Windrush leaves the Army, he sees his future as an executive in industry. Unfortunately, Big Business takes the view that it can carry on quite successfully without the contribution of an amiable idiot like Stanley. And so in desperation he seeks the advice of his Uncle Bertram, the head of an arms factory, who is currently planning a shady, get-rich-quick deal. Stanley goes to work for his uncle and unwittingly upsets the elaborate and...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this sweeping romantic drama, an old promise made during World War II comes back to haunt Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) when a mysterious ring is unearthed in Northern Ireland, decades later. The discovery leads a young man (Martin McCann) to seek out the now elderly Ethel, forcing her to confront long-buried memories of lost love with an American bomber pilot (Stephen Amell) and the heartbreak she’s kept hidden. Directed by Richard Attenborough,...
7) Dunkirk
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Gorgeously restored and available for the first time in HD, DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII, while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the brutality of the war.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes. Richard Attenborough’s intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. *"A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." - Vadim Rizov, **Villiage Voice***
10) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
11) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
12) The Sand Pebbles
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
13) The Great Escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998].
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized version of the unprecedented escape from Stalag Luft III. A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
14) A chorus line
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives. In an audition twist, Zach asks each performer personal and intimate questions--with results that powerfully affect not only the young performers, but the hardened stage veteran as well"--Container.
Language
English
Description
Updated version of the 1947 Christmas classic. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle, Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list.
16) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collection of archive radio programmes focusing on the life and work of crime fiction's grande dame and featuring Agatha Christie in her own words.
Dame Agatha Christie published 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections in her lifetime, but to the public she remained an enigmatic figure. This quartet of BBC radio programmes looks at the woman behind the books, and explores the career of one of Britain's most famous mystery