Richard Attenborough
1) Magic
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
2) Grey Owl
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
3) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Gorgeously restored and available for the first time in HD, DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII, while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the brutality of the war.
Pub. Date
1948.
Description
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes. Richard Attenborough’s intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. *"A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." - Vadim Rizov, **Villiage Voice***
7) Grey Owl
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special edition.
Description
A frontier trapper adopts the ways of the wild, finds love among its people, and fights to protect the land he loves in this film based on the life of Archie Grey Owl.
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Open ocean - "In the immense space of the open ocean the sea bed is a staggering five miles below the suface and the nearest island is over 300 miles away. Yet here live many of the mosr spectacular predators in the ocean. Marvel as you experience ruthless and beautiful battles between hunter and prey." The Deep - "A place of mountain ranges, perpetual night, pressure extremes and cold... and the weirdest life forms on our planet. Dive to the depths...
10) Gandhi
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
[Special edition.]
Description
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
11) Chaplin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
15th anniversary ed.
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
12) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
25th anniversary ; [Collector's ed.].
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
13) Elizabeth
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
England, 1554. Henry VIII is dead. The country is divided, Catholic against Protestant. Henry's eldest daughter Mary, a fervent Catholic, is Queen. She is childless. The Catholics' greatest fear is the succession of Mary's Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth. After Mary's death, Elizabeth ascends to the throne, thrust into an edgy world of political and religious flux she struggles to protect her power, life, and independence as the court boils with...
14) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's ed., Widescreen version.
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.