Granada Films.
1) Longitude
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.
2) Vanity fair
Series
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
3) My left foot
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. This new version is digitally remastered and includes all-new bonus material.
4) The Weekend
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
On one midsummer weekend in an upstate New York country house friends gather for the first anniversary of the death of Tony, the fiery personality who held them all together.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family,...
6) The hole
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four private school students sneak off for a couple days to an underground World War II bunker. When the holiday ends though, they find that they've been locked inside the bunker with hardly any food, no water, and no means of communication to the outside world. But a member of the party is deceiving the others and is to blame for all the terror that is happening to the group.
7) Captain Jack
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack is an irascible sea captain with a strong antipathy for authority, a fondness for the ladies and an obsession with his predecessor Captain Scoresby, who sailed from England to the Arctic in 1791. Jack is determined to retrace Scoresby's 1300 mile voyage and install a plaque in his hero's honor.
8) Ghost world
Series
Criterion collection volume 872
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between directionless best friends Enid and Becky, and their adventures the summer after graduating high school.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day.
10) Bloody Sunday
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a...
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