Jack Hawkins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
Author
Language
English
Description
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people?
Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.
Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 lobby cards in an envelope.
Language
English
Description
A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become intrigued in the court of Kubla Kahn.
6) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (ca. 222 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
9) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Leisure Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?], c1970
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre, a young orphan with no prospects, lands a job as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester. As she goes about her duties at the manor Thornfield, love blooms between them. He asks for her hand in marriage and it appears her dreams will come true; but a dark secret looms over Thornfield that threatens to engulf them all.
10) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A peace-loving prince of Judea leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, love, hate and, finally, forgive.
11) Zulu
Series
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A handful of British engineers entrench themselves in an isolated outpost called Rorke's Drift and prepare to face a series of vicious assaults by more than 4,000 Zulu warriors.
12) Zulu
Author
Language
English
Description
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
13) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and send his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1988.
Edition
edition.
Physical Desc
88 pages
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.