Donald Crisp
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living with her abusive prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man...
5) Pollyanna
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
Series
Studio classic volume 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1789, the English ship H.M.S. Bounty begins a two-year mission. The ship travels to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit plants that will provide cheap food for slaves in the West Indies, the Bounty's final destination. The captain is William Bligh, a vicious taskmaster who doesn't flinch at giving two dozen lashes to any malcontent on board, for the most minor of infractions. The first mate is Lt. Fletcher Christian, who despises Bligh but has somehow...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
10) The uninvited
Series
Criterion collection volume 677
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
11) National Velvet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.