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Jack Thompson
2) Australia
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows an aristocratic English landowner and the cattleman who runs her ranch in pre-World War II Northern Territory.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A nurse is among the American forces waiting for World War II to arrive on an isolated Pacific Island where she finds love with a mysterious French planter. At the same time, a Navy officer falls under the spell of an island girl and the warm tropical sea breezes.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, British Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence and his men are interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, headed by a brutal commander.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A young journalist, John Kelso, travels to Savannah, Georgia, to cover the city's Christmas celebration amid a backdrop of eccentric characters. He becomes intrigued by a sultry singer, Mandy, and engrossed by a murder trial. Wealthy society figure Jim Williams is accused of shooting his male lover, and the question is whether it was in self-defense as he claims.
12) Last dance
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cindy Liggett is a convicted killer facing imminent execution until a young lawyer, Rick Hayes, becomes convinced her case doesn't warrant the death penalty. With time running out, Rick stages an eleventh-hour challenge to the enormous political pressures weighing against them.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls in love with an American woman, he must risk everything...
15) Flesh+blood
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the chaotic, morally bankrupt Europe of 1501, a cold hearted warrior named Martin leads his motley crew of mercenaries into battle to reclaim the castle of an ousted nobleman. But when the despot betrays them, Martin and his band of ruffians strike back by kidnapping the innocent young maiden betrothed to the nobleman's son, who employs another band of mercenaries to pursue and attack them.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacy not only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means. Adapted from the epistolary novel, this film follows the life of Bess Steed Garner from her childhood in 1899 to her death in 1977. Bess endures life's trials and triumphs of life with unfailing courage and indomitable spirit: the sacrifices love sometimes...
17) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat travels to Australia where she meets a rough-hewn cattle driver and an Aboriginal child. This unlikely trio join forces and embark on a transforming journey, driving a herd of cattle across hundreds of miles of beautiful, yet unforgiving, terrain. Their world is torn apart by powerful enemies and they must try to find each other admidst the bombing of the city of Darwin by Japanese forces.
18) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Upcoming writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his dreams, he moves next door to Jay Gatsby who is across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles....
19) The great Gatsby
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds...