Robert Lawrence
2) El Cid
Series
Miriam collection volume 1
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengence plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
Series
Decades collection volume 1970s
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
4) Spartacus
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.