Richard Attenborough
1) Magic
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
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) Grey Owl
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A frontier trapper adopts the ways of the wild, finds love among its people, and fights to protect the land he loves in this film based on the life of Archie Grey Owl.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
6) Dunkirk
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.
7) Elizabeth
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
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***
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The bachelor: Wandering eye and $100 million inheritance on the line, Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell) must get married - and fast! With the minutes counting down, and 1,000 willing brides, will Jimmie discover the true meaning of love? ; In love and war: Epic love story about Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece, A farewell to arms.
10) The great escape
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
Pub. Date
2003.
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, hostile locals, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
13) Gandhi
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
14) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soom fills everyone with the Christmas spirit, except for his boss, Doris Walker, who's raising her daugher to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test.
17) Shadowlands
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.
20) The great escape
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.