Peter Finch
1) Network
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings".
2) The red tent
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sweden's Queen Christina gives up her crown to become a Catholic. The story intertwines Christina's search for faith with the growing love between her and a Catholic Cardinal.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two weeks after the start of WWII, a powerful German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, sails the South Atlantic, destroying Allied merchant ships at will. Captained by one of Germany's most brilliant naval officers, the Graf Spee, with her superior speed and artillery, appears and disappears, sinking ship after ship. When the Allies are finally able to pinpoint its location a trap is set, pitting British Intelligence against a wily and powerful military...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Publisher
Wham! USA
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"It was June 1976 that an Air France plane carrying 244 passengers and a crew of 12 on a flight from Athens to Paris was hijacked by terrorists who forced the captain to alter course and eventually land at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With the tacit approval of president Idi Amin, the passengers were held hostage and threatened with death if the Israeli government didn't comply with their captor's demand to release 53 Palestinian so-called freedom fighters...
10) Elephant Walk
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The young bride accompanies her husband to his plantation called Elephant Walk, and falls for the overseer. This love triangle is soon dwarfed by a cholera epidemic and a drought that brings herds of elephants to the plantation in a thundering stampede.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Anne Bancroft's cathartic lead performance anchors The Pumpkin Eater, Harold Pinter's harrowing, elliptical tale of marital dissatisfaction. Though much of the film concerns her character's fitful bouts with depression, Bancroft charges every moment she's onscreen, employing an array of subtle gestures and facial expressions to convey what her repressed character cannot. Pinter and director Jack Clayton never resort to facile satire or pat assignations...
14) The nun's story
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nun's Story is an unforgettable revelation of the seldom-seen world behind convent walls. This landmark motion picture classic stars a radiant Audrey Hepburn who portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a much-desired position as a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. But when she returns to her native Belgium as World War II breaks out, she is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality....
Series
Criterion collection volume 629
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty something divorcee who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships; it is keenly acted and sensitively directed, from a penetrating screenplay.
16) Lost horizon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this musical remake of the Frank Capra classic, a group of passengers survives a plane crash in the Himalayas and ends up in the mystical world of Shangri-La, an idyllic oasis where art, culture and the knowledge of the world are treasured.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It chronicles the true story of the renowned playwright₂s courtroom clashes with the Marquess of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it. Peter Finch (Network) gives a fascinating, BAFTA-winning portrayal of the brilliant Irish writer, who brings a libel suit against the Marquess after he accuses Wilde of seducing his son, Lord Alfred Douglas. The hearing results in Wilde₂s own scandalous trial and prosecution for gross indecency...
19) Walt Disney presents the story of Robin Hood: from the original sound track of the motion picture
Publisher
Disneyland
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
20) Kidnapped
Series
Wonderful world of Disney volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.