Nicholas Farrell
1) The jury
Publisher
Goldhil Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy is murdered and his schoolmate is arrested. But was he just arrested because he was Sikh, or is he really the killer? The jury must look through the racism and media attention behind the trial and seek the truth.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
4) Dream horse
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film tells the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
5) The Prelude
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Ian Richardson returns as conspirator extraordinaire, Francis Urquhart, and takes up the story exactly where House of Cards left off. Urquhart is pitched into Government with a fantastically slim majority and a hatred of his King who is far too liberal to survive the new Government. But the King fights back.
7) Greek Lives
Author
Language
English
Description
Plutarch, an early Greek historian, uncovers a series of biographies profiling the most influential men of the Ancient World.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award winner for Best Picture, two very different men on the same team vie to win Olympic gold to demonstrate to the world the worth of their deeply held--and strongly opposing--convictions. Yet a friendship builds between the two in this true story that is as strong as their desire to win in CHARIOTS OF FIRE. Paris Olympics, 1924. Scotsman Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson--Gandhi) competes to prove the superiority of this Christian faith,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful historical drama about the intersection of faith and reason, a Spanish archaeologist Marcelino (Antonio Banderas) and his daughter Maria (Allegra Allen) discover seemingly impossible paintings of galloping bison adorning the walls of a hidden cave. The discovery brings the world together in amazement, drawing people of all types to see the paintings in person. But, Marcelino soon realizes that the art on the walls must be 10,000 years...
10) The Night Watch
Author
Language
English
Description
Those with the job of thinking the unthinkable face the greatest challenge of their lives.
Old orders are failing- tired democracies falter in the face of violence in the streets.
A storm of financial might and technological horror is gathering.
Calvin November, a messianic figure, makes a Presidential bid and an astonishing offer.
Primitive animal fear drives a messenger through a winter night with a warning nobody wants to hear.
The action moves...
11) Roman Lives
Author
Language
English
Description
Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Plutarch's series of biographies was the first of its kind, as much groundbreaking in conception as the Histories of Herodotus. Plutarch looked at the great men in the Ancient World and told their stories, in many cases drawing on sources which are no longer available to us.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 6
Language
English
Description
All the secrets burst open, as Matron Luckes clashes with Sister Russell for leaving London to help a family in the slums, while Dr. Culpin clashes with Bennett for giving up studying to be a doctor. And Mr. Dean, supposedly clean, returns to work in the Operating Theatre. In the dead of night a sweatshop fire brings in scores of children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 1
Language
English
Description
Revolution grips the East End as an explosion brings fears of a bomb, and the staff struggle to control the angry victims. When detectives arrive, Matron Luckes and Chairman Sydney Holland fear the hospital is in danger of becoming an extension of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, Sister Ada Russell battles with testy star surgeon Mr. Henry Dean, whose cocaine addiction is an open secret.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 5
Language
English
Description
Dr. Culpin is powerless to help when Ethel Bennett rushes to her dying brother in a naval hospital. Star surgeon Mr. Dean faces destruction through his cocaine addiction. Sister Russell breaks the strict rules of Matron Luckes when she sneaks out of the London to help a young mother.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 2
Language
English
Description
A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr. Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic. Must she risk everything and turn whistleblower? Nurse Bennett fears that her secret alliance with Dr. Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 3
Language
English
Description
The strain of being 'married to the hospital' takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, as she nears collapse. On one of the London's Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau - but Saul has a life-threatening illness.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 4
Language
English
Description
What is the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when Sister Russell catches her sneaking out to see a mysterious young man? What is the secret of the woman brought in wearing pauper's clothes but silk underwear? And what is the dangerous experiment that the brilliant pioneer Dr. Henry Head decides he must risk performing on himself?
19) Chariots of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
20) Finding Altamira
Author
Language
English
Description
Antonio Banderas stars as a man whose astonishing discovery threatens to shake religious understanding and tear his family apart.
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