Goldcrest Films International.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One man had no limits. This is the epic story of the rise and fall of Marco Pantani, sporting hero. Less than five years after winning the Tour De France "clean," he was found dead in mysterious circumstances. This is the tragic tale of how a young cyclist became trapped in the organized crime of professional sport gone bad.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Every terrible tragedy brings about something equally miraculous. Groomed by her overly ambitious mother, Anabelle is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies tragically during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis. When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected, the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly, even as their own demons threaten to force them apart.
6) 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.
8) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. Includes new performances of the freedom songs by top artists, archival footage, and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and even from the black church.
10) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
11) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
12) The Dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
13) Smooth talk
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Connie is a 15-year-od girl with two things on her mind, boys and how she looks, and she meets a man during the summer.
15) Revolution
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A historical epic telling the story of the American Revolution from the violent summer of 1776 to the bloody victory at Yorktown through the experiences of an illiterate trapper.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"On the quarterdeck of H.M.S. Pinafore, Captain Corcoran 's ship and his crew await the coming of Sir Joseph Porter, who is going to inspect Corcoran's ship and marry his daughter, Josephine. But Josephine is secretly in love with Ralph Rackstraw, a member of the crew. they attempt to elope but are apprehended. Through a strange twist revealed by Buttercup, the bumboat woman, all ends happily after all"--Container.
17) Hope and glory
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Story of a young boy and his family in London during World War II.
18) Dark horse
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, the roguish German Shepherd Charlie, finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie. Her astounding ability to talk to animals leads this unlikely pair on an adventure packed with thrills, laughter, tears, and true love.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of a journalist who is covering the war in Cambodia. He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.