Liam Neeson
1) Rob Roy
Author
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange battle evil landowners among the breathtaking landscapes of the majestic Scottish Highlands in this riveting adventure of courage, love and uncompromising honor.
2) Ethan Frome
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic Edith Wharton tale of blazing passion and forbidden desire! Ethan Frome is a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another. His actions soon lead to a forbidden triangle between one love that is and one that will never be, in this timeless story of love, betrayal, and desire.
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the tragic death of the famous English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his quest to the South Pole. Narrated by Liam Neeson.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A heart-warming father son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. As Robert and Jack painstakingly restore the villa to its previous glory, they also start to mend their relationship. The future may now look quite...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Michael Collins, one of Ireland's most controversial patriots and revolutionary heroes, leads his countrymen in their fight for independence. Having come of age in the early 20th century, when a monumental history of oppression and bloodshed had divided Ireland and its people, Collins was arrested during the 1916 Easter Uprising, when Irish revolutionaries surrendered to the overwhelming military power of the British forces after a six-day standoff...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin leaves London and returns to wartime Philadelphia where he joins Congress and helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, he wins French support for the American Revolution then negotiates a peace treaty with Britain. He spends his last years in the new United States, working on the Constitution and unsuccessfully promoting the abolition of slavery.
7) Excalibur
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of King Arthur roars to life in this story of Arthur's rise to power, the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin the Magician, the golden age of Camelot and the search for the Holy Grail. Adapted from Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. “Write things worth reading,” he said in Poor Richard’s Almanack, “or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin did both.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Benjamin Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife Deborah. Turning to science, Franklin gains worldwide fame from his lightning rod and experiments in electricity. After entering politics, he spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his own family starts to come apart.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and our leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged our identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of our democracy.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After Kristallnacht, Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s expanding reach. Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether or how to act even as World War II begins. Charles Lindbergh speaks for isolationists while FDR tries to support the European democracies. The Nazis invade the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust begins in secret.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first reports of the killing reach the United States. A group of dedicated government officials form the War Refugee Board to finance and support rescue operations. As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the sheer scale of the Holocaust. The danger of its reverberations becomes apparent.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his antisemitic rhetoric and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people, causing many to flee to neighboring countries or America. FDR and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis but fail to coordinate a response.
14) Before And After
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Carolyn Reiser's family practice is interrupted when she's called to the emergency room to help with a local teenage girl who's been bludgeoned to death. That night she and her husband, Ben, are shocked when the local sheriff comes by to see if their son, Jacob is home. Jacob was the victim's boyfriend and is suspected in her murder. When Jacob does not return home for days, Carolyn and Ben suspect the worst. Finally, he returns home and confesses...
15) The Good Mother
Author
Language
English
Description
Having weathered an early and unexciting marriage, recent divorcee Anna Dunlap is just beginning to adjust to her life as a single parent when she falls in love with Leo Cutter, an enigmatic Irish sculptor who captivates the shy piano teacher with his unconventional attitudes and ideas. Liberated by their unchecked passion for each other and the growing sense of personal freedom that she experiences as a result of their union, Anna believes she has...
16) Chloe
Author
Description
Suspecting her husband of infidelity, Dr. Catherine Stewart hires an escort named Chloe in order to test his faithfulness. Soon, the relationships between all three intensifies.