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A Farewell To Arms (1932)
(1932) [PG]

In Italy during World War I, a British nurse (Helen Hayes) meets and falls in love with an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper). Amidst the horrors of war, their love is true, but fragile, and it's fateful ending is one of the most moving experiences ever portrayed on the big screen.  More

Under Milk Wood
(1973) [PG]

Dylan Thomas only wrote one play and this is the first and only screen adaptation of that world famous Welsh classic. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world, and on celluloid it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of...  More

The Brothers Karamazov
(1958) [PG]

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other...  More

The Pickwick Papers (2 tape set)
(1985) [G]

BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel. Although considered lightweight when compared to later works, this (to date) most recent adaptation of Dickens' first major work is still a delight. Nigel Stock was born to play this role after decades of creditable character parts and a short-lived...  More

Emma (1972)
(1972) [G]

This BBC production, set in the small town of Highbury, depicts the often hilarious attempts of Miss Emma Woodhouse to make proper marital matches for all of her friends. Though often mistaken in her judgement, she is counselled and criticised by her neighbor and brother-in-law, the wise Mr....  More

Jude The Obscure (2 tape set)
(1971) [PG]

Jude Frawley (Robert Powell) has a dream that has consumed most of his life. The dream of education. The distant spires of Christminster and university have beckoned the young stone mason since he was a boy.

However, having extricated himself from his disastrous marriage to a pig...  More

Le Testament D'Orphee
(1960) [PG]

The third and concluding episode of surrealist Jean Cocteau's renowned Orphic trilogy is a panegyric to life as an artist. Returning to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Cocteau looks back over his career as a poet, painter, playwright, novelist, designer and filmmaker, and at the...  More

The Man From Snowy River
(1982) [PG]

Sweeping in scale, magnificent in execution and faithful in capturing the spirit of Banjo Paterson's epic poem, this is the film that put Australian cinema on the world map. Featuring an outstanding ensemble cast including Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson and in career defining roles, Sigrid Thornton...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 1&2 of 6, (2-tape set)
(1972) [PG]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 3 & 4 of 6, (2 tape set)
(1972) [PG]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More