Matthew Macfadyen
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The re-telling of the valiant story of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite many separate kingdoms into what would become England. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people reclaimed their land from the invading Vikings and built a place they call home.
2) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on Agathe von Trapp's Memories Before and After the Sound of Music, this unforgettable movie follows the von Trapp family's incredible journey from the perspective of Agathe, the eldest daughter. As war encroached upon her family and friends, Agathe embarked on an adventure filled with remarkable twists and turns, joys and disappointments. But despite the struggles through the dark times, there was always the saving grace of music.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beginning where the first season dramatically left off, Season Two follows the Roys, media tycoon Logan and his four grown children, as they struggle to retain control of their empire amidst internal and external threats.
"In Season 2, Kendall deals with fallout from his hostile-takeover attempt, Shiv is poised to enter the upper echelons of the company, Roman reacquaints himself with the business from the bottom up, and Connor launches an unlikely...
9) Quiz
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning 1 million.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the key is. As she undertakes her journey she meets different...
11) The current war
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
12) The assistant
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Inspector Edmund Reid travels deep into the seedy criminal London underworld hell-bent on taking back the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. But Reid isn't fighting this battle alone. He's joined by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, a hard man who prefers to let his fists do the talking, Captain Homer Jackson, a brash American with a voracious appetite for vice, and Long Susan, a madam with shady secrets.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the failure to catch Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid is charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law. But always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest police district in the East End. Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, always fearing the Ripper is coming back for another reign of terror.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
18) Howards End
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an every-changing world. ... Margaret Schlegel is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox, a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End. Meanwhile Margaret's passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel...
19) Robin Hood
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. England at the turn of the 12th century was such a time. King Richard the Lionheart, bankrupt of wealth and glory, is plundering his way back to England after ten years on his crusade. In his army is an archer named Robin Longstride. This is the story of his return home where, for defending the weak against the strong, he will be condemned to live...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother...