John Mills
1) Dunkirk
Author
Description
It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. Even the official war communiqué's merely report activity on the Front.
Author
Description
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
6) Cats
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A musical based on Old Possum's book of practical cats by T.S. Eliot.
10) King Rat
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
12) War and peace
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, the film centers around disenchanted aristocrat and unhappily married Pierre and Prince Andrei, who both are in love with an innocent young woman, Natasha.
13) Young Winston
Pub. Date
2008?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
DVD-R. Based on My early life, by Winston Churchill, the film covers his school days up to the death of his father. The second half covers his military career in India and the Sudan, where he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman; his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; and his election to Parliament at age 26.
14) Hobson's choice
Series
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
16) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
17) This happy breed
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a quintessential British domestic drama that finds a perfect balance between politics and sentiment, the household of a family with three children is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.