Kenneth Branagh
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
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English
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When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
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English
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Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre...
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Widescreen version.
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English
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Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, and to save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.
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Paramount Pictures
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything: his relationship with his fiancée...
7) Cinderella
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English
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Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
9) Thor
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Paramount Pictures
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen god of thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
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Widescreen version.
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English
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What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
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Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
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English
Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student, Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
13) King Lear
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Series
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English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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BBC Video
Language
English
Description
Travel back in time to go walking with dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts! Walking with dinosaurs recreates the world of the dinosaurs and uses animatronics to show the daily struggles of creatures such as the Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Ophthalmosaurus, Ornithocheirus, and Leaellynasaura. The Allosaurus special examines the fossil specimen known as "Big Al" and speculates about what his life might have been like. Walking with prehistoric beasts looks...
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20th Century Studios
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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English
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Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to...
16) Valkyrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
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The Weinstein Company
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
18) Dunkirk
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Rental [edition]; widescreen version.
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English
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A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
19) As you like it
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HBO Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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The daughter of a duke is banished to the forest. She encounters the young gentleman with whom she has fallen in love and attempts to win his love, though disguised as a man herself.
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MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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English
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Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him until the wedding, his friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing.
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