Alec Guinness
Series
Language
English
Description
Luke Skywalker, with his new allies, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, attempt to rescue rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels make an attack on the Empire's most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels. But the ultimate battle is between father and son, as Luke faces Darth Vader...
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 227 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vacuum cleaner salesman takes a job as a British Secret Service agent to support his teen daughter's spending habit. With nothing to report he starts making up cases and agents. Things start to fall apart when he discovers that he has been targeted.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 5 hrs., 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sir Alec Guinness is Sidney Stratton, an eccentric chemist who invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out, or gets dirty. But when mill owners and workers realize this miracle fiber will destroy their industry, Sidney becomes the most hunted man in the nation.
Series
Language
English
Description
As the rebel leaders map their strategy for an attack on the Emperor's new Death Star, Han Solo remains frozen and imprisoned in the desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker, now a master of The Force, rescues his friends but cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against his evil father, Darth Vader, who has sworn to win him over to the Dark Side.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (Blu-ray) (approximately 387 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Episode 4: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.
Episode 5: Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo, R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon. Later, on Bespin,...
16) The swan
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A shy princess's head tells her to wed a worldly Crown Prince, but her heart is drawn to a dashing commoner. Garbed in dreamy Helen Rose gowns, surrounded by Mittel-European opulence, the leading lady dances, duels, flirts, falls in love and makes even the most jaded moviegoer want to believe in fairy tales.
17) Last holiday
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his identity caught between upstairs and downstairs, the guest and the "help."
19) Malta story
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II pilot photographer, is forced to land in Malta. There he finds himself attached to the local regiment struggling to holdout against the Axis.