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Kenneth Branagh's four-hour production of Shakespeare's full text for Hamlet is visually lush (shot in 70mm, which is rarely done) and full of fascinating story moments that normally get cut from shorter stage versions. (Your idea of what kind of fellow Polonius is may change quite a bit.) The unexpurgated approach is truly enlightening, and Branagh intermittently succeeds at giving ...

Manufacturer: Columbia Tri-Star Home Video
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Riz Abbasi
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Steve McQueen, David McCallum, Nigel Stock, Gordon Jackson, Angus Lennie
Directed By: John Sturges

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow
Directed By: John Guillermin

This second David Attenborough DVD Box Set contains three of his natural history series, all presented complete: Life on Earth The Living Planet The Private Life of Plants

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough

School for Secrets tells the inside story of the 'Boffins' - Britain's backroom boys - who developed the miracle discovery of radar and helped stave off the German invasion of Britain in 1940. Five different scientists, led by Professor Heatherville (Ralph Richardson), are brought together and work in total secrecy and under incredible pressure in a race against time to develop this vital weapon. ...

Manufacturer: Simply Media
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Richard Attenborough, David Tomlinson, John Laurie
Directed By: Peter Ustinov

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: David Attenborough

The Great Escape image of Steve McQueen (as "The Cooler King") astride his motorcycle has entered silver-screen iconography, alongside Brando on his bike from The Wild One. Based on a true story about a group of POWs who mount a daring breakout from a supposedly inescapable Nazi prison camp, this rousing and suspenseful World War II epic features an all-star cast, including James ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Directed By: John Sturges

In 1979 David Attenborough presented Life on Earth, the first wildlife blockbuster series, a chronicle of three-and-a-half billion years of natural history. The Living Planet followed five years later, an equally ambitious 12-part documentary which spanned the globe with portraits of each of the major geographical regions which offer home to life. Attenborough demonstrates how even ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough

Following the successful video release of Cats comes another Andrew Lloyd Webber blockbuster musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and it's a savvy choice. It hasn't been represented on film before, it's short enough (78 minutes) to present without cuts and it has the star-power of former teen icon Donny Osmond, who played over 1,800 performances across North ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough, Joan Collins, Christopher Biggins
Directed By: David Mallet

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Nicky Henson, Spike Milligan, Catherine Schell
Directed By: Blake Edwards, Joseph McGrath, Roy Boulting, Jack Arnold