Laurence Olivier
1) Henry V
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A midsummer night's dream: Cagney, de Havilland, Rooney and others play foolish mortals and immortals in this winner of 2 Academy Awards. Othello: A proud general brought low. Romeo and Juliet: A lavish retelling of the world's foremost romantic tale. Anthony and Cleopatra: A thoughtful and colorful adaptation of the fatal attraction that ensnares the worldly ROman soldier and the alluring Egyptian ruler.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A midsummer night's dream: Cagney, de Havilland, Rooney and others play foolish mortals and immortals in this winner of 2 Academy Awards. Othello: A proud general brought low. Romeo and Juliet: A lavish retelling of the world's foremost romantic tale. Anthony and Cleopatra: A thoughtful and colorful adaptation of the fatal attraction that ensnares the worldly ROman soldier and the alluring Egyptian ruler.
5) Spartacus
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
6) Rebecca
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
7) King Lear
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.): sd., color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
9) Khartoum
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Britain's crisis in the Sudan and the siege at Khartoum in 1883.
10) The Jazz singer
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 n.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
14) The world at war
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
11 videodiscs in 11 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 1,194 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
15) Spartacus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
16) Richard III
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villain, usurps the crown from King Edward IV, and is later killed at Bosworth Field. Henry, Earl of Richmond, ascends the throne as Henry VII, establishing the Tudor dynasty.
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from a Harold Robbins potboiler, "The Betsy" offers power struggles, incest, adultery, gold digging, and car racing. Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son (Paul Rudd), a daughter-in-law he loves too much (Katharine Ross), a resentful grandson (Robert Duvall), and a devoted great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller) to whom he bequeaths most of his fortune. In the midst...
18) 49th parallel
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Nazi U-boat crew headed by the ruthless Lieutenant Hirth is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities before trying to cross the border into the still-neutral United States.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (659 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Charles is from a family with little money. Sebastian's family is wealthy. The two become friends at Oxford. When Sebastian invites his friend to dinner, Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family. After Charles becomes an officer in the British Army he and his company are moved to an English country house that he realizes is Sebastian's family home. Here he discovers memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of...
20) Three sisters
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attemps to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the...