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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.
2) War requiem
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. The lady vanishes: During a transcontinental train trip in Europe, a young woman is alarmed to discover a passenger has disappeared -- The farmer's wife: (silent) A lonely widowed farmer is looking for a new bride, not realizing the housekeeper helping him with his search is secretly in love with him -- The Manxman (silent): A romantic tale of intrigue involving a love triangle concerning three residents of the Isle of Man -- Alfred Hitchcock...
12) Whisky galore
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a ship loaded with whisky is wrecked on a Scottish island during World War II, a battle of wits ensues between the canny Scots islanders and the local customs inspector.
13) Another life
Language
English
Description
Scandal leads to murder in this true story as a woman is falsely accused of killing her husband.
14) KZ
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows tour groups through the Mauthausen concentration camp as they hear and read about the atrocities committed there. Includes interviews with residents of Mauthausen, Austria, including people who give eyewitness accounts of the time.
16) Frenzy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An innocent man accused of a series of murders is on a desperate quest to find the real criminal and clear his name.
20) The Manxman
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film about two friends, a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other.
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