David Lean
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Edition
Anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Second-disc special edition ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for.
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop in England finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
10) This happy breed
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable life in the period between the two World Wars.
11) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.