Adrian Lester
Author
Language
English
Description
"'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.'--Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom. In 1994, Nelson Mandela...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The second ten sensational part season of Riviera sees Georgina focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. This intoxicating drama is full of sun, sex, sea, fast cars, fast living, chateaus and everything that says the glamour of the rich and powerful. Picking up immediately from the shocking ending of season one, with the Clios family still...
3) Doomsday
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A lethal virus spreads throughout Great Britain, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat the government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area and the rest of the country succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper Virus violently resurfaces. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined...
5) Maybe baby
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sam and Lucy are a married couple who seem to have it all. The only thing missing is a child that they both desperately want. Between busy careers and trying to conceive, life becomes completely unpredictable. Now their love for each other will truly be put to the test.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Through four extraordinary documentaries, we follow some of Queen Elizabeth II's most defining moments, from her unique coronation to her sympathetic and inspiring speeches. With singular access and painstaking detail, we see how her legend was crafted, and take a peek behind the curtain to get a sense of the woman who was Queen.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch. Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
11) Grey lady
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After the murder in Boston of his police partner and lover, homicide Detective James Doyle follows a clue embedded in her dying words to the remote island of Nantucket to hunt her killer in the lonely off-season.
12) Trauma
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dan and Jon are two fathers whose very different lives collide when Dan's teenage son tragically dies under the care of trauma consultant Jon in a Central London hospital. Devastated and heartbroken, Dan, a working class father struggling to make ends meet, believes Jon is responsible for his son's death and, as he strives for justice, Dan begins to unpick the fabric of Jon's distinctly contrasting life as a high-achieving surgeon with a beautiful...
Author
Series
Riviera ; 8
Language
English
Description
Nadia's Russian handlers threaten the Clios family, prompting Georgina to join forces with an unlikely ally... Adriana confronts Irina about Negrescu and Christos's new relationship puts him in danger…
Author
Series
Riviera ; 7
Language
English
Description
Jukes intends to charge Georgina with Constantine's crimes unless she can prove Jon Brandeis was to blame. The problem, of course, is that Brandeis doesn't exist. Adriana discovers a family secret…
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations. They devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains.
17) Dust
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.
Author
Series
Riviera ; 6
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the murder, the family are questioned by the police. Georgina begins to suspect that Adam has some connection to the murderer. Meanwhile, Officer Jukes' Interpol investigation is closing in…