Jeremy Northam
Author
Language
English
Description
James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he's doing. Soon, he's apparently deciphering incomprehensible codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operatives from his country...
3) The Net
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Freelance software analyst, Angela Bennet, is inadvertently drawn into a dangerous conspiracy when a client asks her to de-bug a CD-ROM game. Soon the client turns up dead and Angela is next on the hit-list. After the assassins obliterate her official identity, Angela realizes hers is not the only life being destroyed on the Net.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
6) The net
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A computer expert's whole life is erased by a computer conspiracy.
7) John Donne
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in life's pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne's ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language, has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare."--
9) The invasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son,...
10) The Winslow boy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A barrister defends a 14-year-old naval cadet accused of stealing a postal money-order.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
13) Emma
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., who rises from complete obscurity to become a golfing legend. Jones overcomes his own fierce temper, intense passion, and perfectionist tendencies to master the game and wins the Grand Slam, the U.S., British, and Amateur Opens in golf, a feat unequaled even today. But it is Jones's style, personality, and character that separate him from the other professionals in his field. When Jones realizes that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
16) Happy Texas
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious comedy where a case of mistaken identity leads to a beauty of a con game!
17) Creation
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
King Henry VIII: young, sexy and the most powerful man in the world. The throne and the entire world became his at age 19. This television series reveals the early years of the passionate, vibrant and scandalous man who forever changed the course of history.
19) Cypher
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Computer expert Morgan Sullivan joins the ranks of a huge multinational company, assumes a new identity to investigate corporate espionage, and finds himself caught up in a vicious cycle of paranoia and mistrust. Then along comes Rita, a secret agent, who informs Sullivan that he's being brainwashed and that she is the only one who can help him.
20) Gosford Park
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.