Richard Attenborough
7) Shadowlands
Series
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcee.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An archaeologist is invited to tour a new theme park - inhabited by dinosaurs resurrected with their DNA. A double-crossing employee triggers a shutdown of the fencing systems, which causes a terrifying problem. This version has been digitally remastered for enhanced picture and sound. The first installment of the Jurassic Park movie series.
9) Grey Owl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
10) Big cats
Series
Publisher
Thirteen WNET
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jaguar : year of the cat follows a jaguar through the Belize rainforest. In Chasing big cats, filmmakers Owen Newman and Amanda Barrett share footage and stories of such big cats as the cheetah, leopard, lion, caracal, and serval.
11) Jurassic Park
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Steven Spielberg presents one of the most successful films in worldwide box office history. Featuring incredible special effects and action-packed drama, Jurassic Park takes you to a remote island where an amazing theme park with living dinosaurs is about to turn deadly, as five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.
13) A chorus line
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach (Douglas) leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives. In an audition twist, Zach asks each performer personal and intimate questions--with results that powerfully affect not only the young performers, but the hardened stage veteran as well"--Container.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free but now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
15) In love and war
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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.
16) Mother Teresa
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This award winning film follows Mother Teresa, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, into the world's trouble spots from the war in Beirut to Guatemala under siege, from the devastated streets of Calcutta to the ghettos of the South Bronx.
18) Cry freedom
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa in the mid-1970s, this film tells the story of Stephen Biko, a Black political activist, and Donald Woods, a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.
19) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
20) Elizabeth
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.