Trevor Howard
1) Father Goose
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A beachcomber living on a South Sea island during World War II works as a spotter for the Navy. When he rescues a ship full of a teacher and seven schoolgirls, his life is complicated.
3) Windwalker
Publisher
Sterling Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Cheyenne
Description
Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne Warrior, Windwalker, tells his life's story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen during a raid by Crow warriors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
5) The dawning
Publisher
Artisan Home Entiertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
An IRA gunman, on the run in Ireland in 1920 enlists the help of a young woman. Together they face life-and-death choices as the authorities fight back.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan is shot down over Nazi-conrolled 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 for Switzerland,...
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994.
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
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
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A small time diamond merchant (Charles Grodin) jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England developes a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission may be compromised. Abort.
11) The Sea Wolves
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In March of 1943, a group of Boer War veterans is recruited by British intelligence to destroy a Nazi spy ship in the harbor of Goa, India.
12) The offence
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After 20 years on the police force, Detective Sergeant Johnson has seen too much. One day while interrogating a snide, sarcastic suspect in a child molestation case, all of his pent up anger and hatred surfaces and Johnson loses control, killing the man. What had started out as a routine investigation has turned into a case of police brutality, and Johnson must now attempt to reconcile his own violent behavior.
13) Shaka Zulu
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the uniting of the Zulu tribes into a powerful new nation under the leadership of one man, set in the period of European colonial expansion.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
"In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious...
15) Father goose
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
16) The third man
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Films Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
17) Morituri
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.
18) The third man
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An American novelist goes to Europe for what he thinks is the funeral of an old friend and finds himself entangled in a spiralling web of international intrigue.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
When Phineas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure.
20) Ludwig
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Italiano
Description
Story of Ludwig II, the 19th century "mad king" of Bavaria, and the years from his coronation to his obsession with Richard Wagner's music and its effects on his mind and his ability to rule his kingdom.