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Series
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and the mysterious white hunter.
2) Gandhi
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of Ghandi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
6) My fair lady
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
7) Rain man
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young self-centered con-man learns how to love from the autistic savant brother he had intended to use.
10) Marty
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
11) A Beautiful mind
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.
13) Mrs. Miniver
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the...
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