Robert Bolt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
3) The Bounty
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Pub. Date
[2007], c1966
Description
Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
7) The Mission
Pub. Date
1986
Description
Epic adventure, set in the Amazon, about a Spanish Jesuit priest and a military man who unite to protect an Indian tribe from pro-slavery Portugal, also expanding its colonial empire to 18th century Brazil.
8) The Mission
Pub. Date
[1991], c1986
Description
A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
10) Doctor Zhivago
Description
A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Description
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
14) Pandorum
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After astronauts wake up on a spaceship with no memory of how they got there, they discover other humans on board as well as mysterious monsters intent on destroying them.