Richard Attenborough
1) Elizabeth
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soom fills everyone with the Christmas spirit, except for his boss, Doris Walker, who's raising her daugher to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test.
4) Elizabeth
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
16th century England. Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and na��ve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors. At the same time having to thwart her devious rivals and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years. One is for research, and the other for exploitation. They are forced to team up to survive, despite their differences.
8) Grey Owl
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frontier trapper adopts the ways of the wild, finds love among its people, and fights to protect the land he loves in this film based on the life of Archie Grey Owl.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's abolishment of the death penalty.
13) Shadowlands
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, C.S. Lewis is a world-renowned writer and professor. Unmarried, he leads a gentleman2s life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by any great passion until he meets Joy Gresham. Slowly he opens his heart to this woman, and their romance shatters the walls of his cloistered world. But life is made up of delicate balances, and Lewis must confront a terrible truth: that a heart awakened to great love is also opened...
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
15) Chaplin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
16) Elizabeth
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and na©ve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
17) The sand pebbles
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183,196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, hostile locals, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, an English pilot survives a jump from his burning plane due to an angel's incompetence. Caught in a netherworld between heaven and Earth, and in love with an American radio operator, he must plead his case before a heavenly tribunal.
20) The great escape
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.