Jack Hawkins
3) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
4) Zulu
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing true story, [it's] a thrilling account of one of history's fiercest battles. As a terrifying war chant echoes across the majestic African plains, 4,000 Zulu tribesman rise up from the tall grass that hides them. Furiously beating their swords against their shields, the warriors descend upon a small garrison of English soldiers"--Container.
5) Ben-hur
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. Fom that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Great Pharaoh orders architect Vashtar to build him the highest pyramid in the world as his tomb. 15 years have passed and his treasury is dwindling, so he marries Princess Nellifer, but she is as ruthless as she is beautiful.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, T. E. Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
13) The ruling class
Series
Criterion collection volume 132
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bitter about being forced into retirement, a colonel (wittily embodied by Jack Hawkins) ropes a cadre of former British army men into aiding him in a one-million-pound bank robbery, a risky, multitiered plan that involves infiltrating a military compound.
16) Rampage
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"World-renowned big game trapper Harry Stanton is commissioned by a German zoo to capture The Enchantress, a mythical Malaysian beast purported to be half-tiger/half-leopard, and finds himself teamed with the venerable but aging hunter Otto Abbott and his seductive mistress, Anna. Tensions soar when Abbott discovers the younger Stanton has his sights set on Anna and, in a fit of rage and paranoia, goes on a rampage before moving in for the kill "--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
18) The prisoner
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In an unnamed Eastern European capital, an iron-willed cardinal is arrested by state police on charges of treason. Tasked with securing a confession from him by any means necessary is a former comrade-in-arms from the anti-Nazi resistance. Knowing the cardinal will never fold under physical torture, the interrogator instead sets out to destroy him mentally, breaking his spirit rather than his body.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Philip Calvert is a secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions of dollars of gold bullion in the Irish seas. His search takes him to small port in the Hebrides where numerous fishing boat, yachts and people have been mysteriously disappearing. A trail of deceit and subterfuge leads him to fabulously wealthy residents Sir Anthony Skouras and his beautiful wife, Charlotte who may hold the answers to the truth.
20) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Oscar-winning epic based on Lew Wallace's novel. Set in imperialist Rome, two friends become sworn enemies due to their religious convictions.