Vanessa Redgrave
2) Deep impact
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or divertedbefore it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.
Series
Call the midwife volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Series
Call the Midwife volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"True-to-life look at the exhilarating stories of a midwife in poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s"--Container.
Formats
Description
A secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team tries to discover the truth.
A former Russian spy selling international intelligence on the black market... a list containing names of the top undercover agents in the world... a corrupt agent doubling for an unknown organization... a mysterious arms dealer... a spy agency ready to disavow the actions or existence of any of its members captured or killed... and one man on a mission which...
9) Coriolanus
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The story of the Roman general Caius Martius Coriolanus, and his quest for revenge after his banishment from Rome.
10) Mrs. Dalloway
Pub. Date
1998
Description
As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party, she remembers a summer in the past when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.
11) The thief lord
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
12) Wilde
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
13) Anonymous
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Set in 1930's Shanghai, a grief-stricken blind American diplomat shuts out the world and sets about creating the bar of his dreams with the help of a Japanese spy and a refugee Russian countess turned taxi dancer to support her young daughter and unappreciative in-laws. As civil war and the advancing Japanese army begins their invasion, the diplomat is forced to face his past and the reality of what's going on around him.
15) Camelot
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Harris plays King Arthur and Redgrave is his Guenevere in this film version of the musical by Lerner and Loewe.
16) Evening
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
18) Atonement
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
19) The Fever
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Wallace Shawn's deeply personal play about the high cost of enlightenment, and the ever-widening gap between those who have and those who have not.
20) Anonymous
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex Rebellion against her, speculates whether or not it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who wrote Shakespeare's plays.