Channel Four (Great Britain)
1) Shackleton
Publisher
A&E Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antartica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the world's worst seas that made their rescue possible.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by Bernard Black who makes no effort to sell, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, and abhors his customers. Help comes from the bumbling Manny and Fran, the frustrated next door neighbor.
Publisher
2 Entertain Video Ltd
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A biopic of the flamboyant Princess Margaret from the days after her father's death in 1952 through the 1970s. Included: A Royal Scandal, which chronicles the infamous 19th century marriage and problems of King George and Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
8) Traffik
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001], c1989
Language
English
Description
Docudrama following all aspects of the international illegal heroin industry.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Language
English
Description
When the tabloids scream the news that Tory up-and-comer and arbiter of family values Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his devoted wife. As her husband and the party machinery behind him expect, Flora maintains a loyal façade. But in private, her anguish hardens into rage after erotic telephone tapes reveal the extent of her husband's duplicity. Employing strange sexual games and...
10) Ultraviolet
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
For centuries vampires have co-existed in harmony with humans until now ... Amidst the growing threat of viral epidemic and the possibility of worldwide environmental catastrophe, humanity has an unprecedented ability to destroy itself. In order to prevent further contamination or loss of their food supply, the vampires have organized and are pouring funds into all manner of human scientific research. Though they profess to be a persecuted and misunderstood...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
Series
Publisher
Voyager Company
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema.
13) Any human heart
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of Logan Mountstuart, including his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
15) Young @ Heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Young at Heart Chorus is based in Northampton, Massachusetts. See the final weeks of rehearsal for the group, whose average age is 81 and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs that range from James Brown to Coldplay. The group has toured Europe and sung for royalty. Now they are focusing on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor,...
16) Ping pong
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful...
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