Ralph Richardson
2) Dragonslayer
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Back in the days when everyone believed in magic, a horrifying fire-breathing dragon terrorized the sixth-century British countryside. The only hope for the beleaguered citizens is an aging sorcerer (Sir Ralph Richardson). But when he is killed before he can save the people, the task falls on his young apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol). Galen's mission is complicated by resistance from the king - and by falling in love - but his biggest challenge...
3) 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.
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.
5) The heiress
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
6) Rollerball
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the perfectly controlled society of the 21st century, the only outlet for violence is a deadly spectator sport--Rollerball.
8) Hedda Gabler
Series
Henrik Ibsen the collection volume V. 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (162 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hedda Gabler: Hedda has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple. However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything. The lady from the sea: Married to a much older widower with daughters nearly her age, Ellida Wangel starts...
10) 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
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bored group of celestials decide to give an "ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles. Timid British department store clerk George McWhirter Fotheringay receives the special gift and after experimenting with conjurer's tricks, he soon realizes that his powers attract everyone except Ada Price, a young woman he admires from afar.
13) Exodus
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (170 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Tyrone is an aging actor and an alcoholic miser who has spent a lifetime treading on the spirit of his dope-addicted wife, Mary. His oldest son Jamie is a troublemaking alcoholic who is envious of the writing talent of his sickly younger brother, Edmund. The three Tyrone men will spend a hellish night together when they sit about drunkenly while Mary hallucinates about her younger and happier days.
15) The 300 Spartans
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tales of the crypt: When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely, and unavoidable deaths.
Vault of horror: Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped with...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened, a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside seeking a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver, they face huge challenges and use strength and cunning to survive, while gaining new allies, battling new enemies and always pursuing their dream." -- Container.
18) Doctor Zhivago
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.