Patrick Magee
Author
Language
English
Description
An enduring peace is only possible through a genuine understanding of the past. To understand the Troubles is to set them in the context of the historical root causes of the conflict, in order to grapple with its pain and its horrors; to grieve and then, perhaps, to heal.
This is the memoir of Patrick Magee, the man who planted the 1984 Brighton bomb – an attempt by the Provisional IRA to kill the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to...
3) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Richard Attenborough's examination of the early life of Winston Churchill, up until his early days at Parliament, and before his marriage is a fascinating look at the formative years of one of the greatest politicians and most influential world leaders in recent history. This film has been newly remastered.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Contains television adaptations of "Macbeth" in which Macbeth, driven by his ambitious wife, plots to take over the Scottish throne and "King Lear" in which King Lear foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are secretly plotting against him.
7) Primal Rage
Author
Language
English
Description
Lost deep in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, Ashley and Max Carr are stalked by a terrifying creature that might be Bigfoot. Soon they find themselves embroiled in a strange land of Native American myth and legend turned real. Hopelessly trying to survive, with a handful of unsavory locals, they must fight back against this monster in a desperate battle of life or death.
8) Marat/Sade
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The inmates at an insane asylum re-enact the assassination of Marat, a figure in the French revolution, under the direction of the infamous Marquis de Sade.
9) Dementia 13
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
A woman who drives her husband to a heart attack, a family that clings strangely to the memory of a sister who drowned years before and a series of ax murders create the background for this grim story.
10) Primal rage
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lost deep in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, Ashley and Max Carr are stalked by a terrifying creature that might be Bigfoot. Soon they find themselves embroiled in a strange land of Native American myth and legend turned real. Hopelessly trying to survive, with a handful of unsavory locals, they must fight back against this monster in a desperate battle of life or death.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tales of the crypt: When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely, and unavoidable deaths.
Vault of horror: Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped with...
12) King Lear
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can...