Derek Jacobi
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic. The untold story of the building of a legend, and the many lives it affected during its 3-year construction. To its wealthy investors, it was a dream. To the middle class who oversaw the project, it was as challenge. But to the working class who built it, Titanic was the start...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Five most popular collections of mysteries that bring together Miss Marple's quick wit and uncanny knack for solving thorny cases. Mysteries include: The Murder at the Vicarage, A Murder Is Announced, At Bertram's Hotel, A Pocket Full of Rye, and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
105) Discovering Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Standard format].
Language
English
Description
Derek Jacobi and Kenneth Branagh star in this absorbing documentary, which follows the Renaissance Theatre Company's production of Hamlet from first read-throughs to opening night. Narrated by Patrick Stewart. Chronicles Derek Jacobi's directorial dispute and Kenneth Branagh's first professional appearance as the Danish prince. Bonus disc with hours of never-before-seen footage.
107) The Riddle
Author
Language
English
Description
A brutal string of murders spurs reporter Mike Sullivan (Vinnie Jones, Snatch, X-Men: The Last Stand) to search for the cunning killer in this supernatural mystery. But to stop the killings, he first must solve a century-old murder hidden inside the pages of a newly discovered Charles Dickens manuscript. Co-starring Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, Underworld: Evolution) and Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), this intriguing thriller takes an unusual twist guaranteed...
Author
Language
English
Description
I committed a crime, it is true, a mad crime, but are not insane jealousy, passionate love, betrayed and lost, and the terrible pain I endure, enough to make anyone commit a crime without actually being a criminal? Guy de Maupassant
A lover's most unlikely jealousy, a mother's patient wait for revenge, a young actress driven to destruction by a cruel husband, a story of jilted love and murder in a London lodging house, and a confrontation that brings...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it...
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it...
110) Vicious: the finale
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It returns for an hour-long special series finale, charting a year in the life of our beloved characters. Freddie and Stuart are back, joined as ever by Violet, Ash, Penelope and Mason. In spring, Freddie and Stuart attempt to hide their recently gained inheritance. Violet has financial troubles after her recent divorce and Ash struggles to meet his rent. Signs of Freddie and Stuart's expenditure, soon threatens the pretense as their home is overrun...
111) The jury
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive six-part series of a shocking murder trial and the jurors affected by it.
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
115) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Blu-ray].
Language
English
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter. Special features included.
116) Breaking the code
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Producer's cut.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alan Turing, British mathematical genius and designer of the computer that broke the German Enigma code during World War II, whose admittance to homosexuality at a time when it was illegal presented problems for him, for his family, for his colleagues, and for the State's preoccupation with national security. This special producer's cut, restoring 12 minutes cut for television broadcasts, was premiered March 11, 2012 at Princeton University....
117) The secret of NIMH
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Family fun edition, widescreen or full screen.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the need to move her family from a farmer's field while her Timothy is seriously ill, a widowed mouse seeks help from a group of rats whose unwilling participation in experiments at a place called NIMH has made them wise and long lived.
118) Adam resurrected
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
A young Greek prince sees his father murdered by his uncle and flees, returning twenty years later to reclaim the throne. To save his own life, Prince Jason pledges to deliver the coveted Golden Fleece to his Uncle Pelias. Embarking with a crew of superheros, he undertakes a perilous voyage to find his destiny.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Complete & unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The story in which Conan Doyle first unleashed the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection. An unmarked corpse, a wedding ring, and a mysterious message scrawled in blood are Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson's only clues as they follow the trail of a man driven to fulfill a terrible oath he swore more than twenty years before.
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