Hugh Quarshie
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Africa's Great Rift Valley runs four thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi - a diverse landscape of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rich grasslands and mighty rivers. Home to the greatest concentration of animals on Earth - lions, crocodiles, elephants, hippos and flocks of flamingos - and pastoralists such as the Maasai - this is a land in constant geological turmoil. Great Rift takes you to another...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. In this classic comedy, three plots intertwine: the entangled love affairs of Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia, the comic performance of a "play within a play"...
3) Nightbreed
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
4) The Church
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In). In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
As imminent conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to Naboo to warn the Queen of the galactic fallout which is to follow. Eventually, Naboo is invaded forcing the Jedis to evacuate the planet with the Queen and her court. They travel to the desert planet of Tatooine where they meet a slave boy called Anakin Skywalker who is evidently one...
6) Maryland
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
MaryLand is a story about two sisters, about what binds them together and what has driven them apart. Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary.
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: The Family Upstairs.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On April 22, 1993, 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a gang of racists on a London street. Thirteen years later, in 2006, the murder remains unsolved, and Stephen's family continue their fight for justice. Meanwhile, DCI Clive Driscoll finds Stephen's cold case files and is convinced the case can be solved, despite opposition from within the police
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In September 2010, two of Stephen's suspected killers are arrested in dawn raids and stand trial for his murder. The defense and prosecution argue over potential cross-contamination in the years since the murder that could mean the forensic evidence is unsafe. While they await the verdict, Doreen Lawrence tells Clive that whatever the outcome, the fight for justice will go on.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels and a crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and wrote the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in the UK in 1997. Smash hit movie adaptations...
12) Othello
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic tragedy in which Othello, a Moorish general, is led by a jealous and evil ensign to believe his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful.