Richard Attenborough
1) Magic
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
2) Grey Owl
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
3) Dunkirk
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Gorgeously restored and available for the first time in HD, DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII, while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the brutality of the war.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes. Richard Attenborough’s intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. *"A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." - Vadim Rizov, **Villiage Voice***
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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.
6) Elizabeth
Series
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Updated version of the 1947 Christmas classic. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle, Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list.
12) Guns at Batasi
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A dedicated British soldier is caught in the midst of a revolution in Africa. When he is ordered to relinquish command to the native militia, he defies the orders and arms himself and his followers with a cache of weapons. When Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale learns of this defiance, he springs into action with all the authority at his command, knowing full well that he's the only thing that stands between order and ...massacre!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, c1987
Language
English
Description
In 1959, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's abolishment of the death penalty.
15) 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.
17) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
18) Shadowlands
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 divorcée.
19) A bridge too far
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.