Goldcrest Films International.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1981
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands outside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted to a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam. But when the US president ... crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: notorious outlaw and form Special Forces war hero Snake Plissken ... But time is short. In 24 hours, an explosive device implanted in his neck will end Snake's mission-- and his life-- unless he succeeds!"--Container.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Every terrible tragedy brings about something equally miraculous. Groomed by her overly ambitious mother, Anabelle is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies tragically during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis. When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected, the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly, even as their own demons threaten to force them apart.
5) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
6) Gandhi
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Description
Chronicles the life of Gandhi 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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.
11) Hope and glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Description
A seven-year-old boy in 1940s London finds his ordinary life transformed by the drama of World War II.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor
Pub. Date
2001]
Description
Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of a journalist who is covering the war in Cambodia. He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.
13) On the ice
Publisher
Naedomi
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive.
14) Matewan
Publisher
Seville Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powder keg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920s.
15) The Iron Lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.