Irene Papas
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(142 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid English writer finds himself drawn into a world far more exciting and dangerous than any he has known when he hires an eccentric stranger named Zorba to work in a mine he has inherited on Crete.
2) The message
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Mohammed, the prophet who founded Islam.
3) Iphigeneia
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
Believed to be cursed by a powerful and angry goddess for his slaying of a deer, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to remove the curse which has prevented the winds from blowing and his ships from moving forward on their mission to Troy.
4) Antigone
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
Greek
Description
Cinematic interpretation of Sophocles' immortal tragedy with a cast of over 500 actors of the Greek stage and screen, as well as soldiers and horsemen of the Greek Royal Guard. In the aftermath of a bloody civil war that fatally pitted her two brothers against each other, Antigone defies a direct edict from Thebes' King Creon. Her defiance of Creon and devotion to her shattered family divides the city of Thebes, threatens her sister's betrothal to...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
Language
English
Description
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
6) The odyssey
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aided by the goddess Athena, warrior-king Odysseus braves the terrors and temptations of a fantastic array of creatures as his return from the Trojan War becomes a decade-long quest to reach his homeland and his faithful wife, Penelope.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (2 hr., 26 min.; 2 hr., 12 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning materpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.