Ben Kingsley
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So, I must speak on their behalf."
Tova Friedman was one of...
2) Judaism
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Judaism, one of the world's oldest surviving religions, is both a theology and a way of life. Despite persecution of its followers, it has survived as the first religion to be founded upon the principle of monotheism.
4) Islam
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of Islam as one of the great monolithic world religions. Explores the wealth of cultural contributions of the Islamic world.
5) Jules
Language
English
Formats
Description
JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.” Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway becomes a ride of deception and murder when a couple meets a pair of mysterious travelers. With Woody Harrelson, Kate Mara, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
25th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who, as a munitions manufacturer, saved more than 1,100 Jews from extermination during WWII by hiring them to work for him.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A freelance knight turns against the tyrant king he tutored as a boy by teaming with the last dragon on earth; an orphaned stable boy discovers the world's last living dragon and realizes his dream of becoming a knight can come true; after saving a dragon's life, Gareth and the dragon work together to defeat the sorcerer and stop his reign of terror; when King Gareth dies his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon's unique strengths,...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
12) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, he uncovers terrifying truths about the island and finds out some places never let you go.
13) Self/less
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
14) Robot overlords
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
16) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a magical world of spectacular adventure! When wily and resourceful Hugo discovers a secret left by his father, he unlocks a mystery and embarks on a quest that will transform those around him and lead to a safe and loving place he can call home. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese invites you to experience a thrilling journey that critics are calling the stuff that dreams are made of.
17) Ender's game
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
18) The walk
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
19) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
About a retired British gangster agonizing over whether or not to come out of his comfortable retirement in the south of Spain. Weighing heavily on his brow are the temptation of a very lucrative job and the persistent lobbying of his underworld associate.
20) Suspect zero
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent pursues a man who himself is chasing Suspect Zero, the ultimate serial killer so mysterious, they're unsure whether he actually exists.