Trevor Howard
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 leaflet
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This film re-creates the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered British Royal Airforce battled and fought off the powerful German Luftwaffe at the beginning of World War II. For this film more than 100 vintage aircraft were assembled to re-enact the historic battle in the skies over England.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
6) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen 25th anniversary ; [Collector's ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
7) Gandhi
Language
English
Formats
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes, located in the worst area of town. A wealthy married patron offers to help improve his station, on the condition that he also minister to her, in the bedroom!
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 309 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. You will visit conventional English drawing rooms, a boy's prep school, a luxury health spa and a snowbound hotel.
10) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w, ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm., folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
11) Father Goose
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.
12) Green for danger
Series
Criterion collection volume 375
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
13) Ryan's daughter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen 2-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A re-creation of mid-Victorian England that contrasts the silliness of the aristocracy with the squalor of the lower classes. Rather than making a standard blood and glory epic, Richardson created a film that took the silly glory and glamour out of war and substituted something closer to the bitter truth.
16) The third man
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
18) The Conflict
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Sheen stars in this religious drama that pits the protectors of tradition against the emissaries of change. Sheen, on a mission from the Vatican to help adminsister reforms within the Roman Catholic Church, is dispatched to a secluded monastery in Ireland where he meets an Abbot (Trevor Howard) that does not share his views on how to lead his flock.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
20) The third man
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his friend's Czech girlfriend. Includes commentary, interviews,...