Ex-cavalryman Paul Cable (Tom Selleck) & his family return to Arizona after the American Civil War, where they discover that Union sympathisers (David & Keith Carradine) have taken over Cable's homestead. Now Cable has to fight one more war of his own in order to get his home back. An adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. ...

Historical drama based on the last chapter in the life of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Christopher Plummer stars as the famous writer, who is nearing the end of his life after a long period of ill health. He lives with his family in a compound at Yasnaya Polyana, attended to by his wife & the disciples of his 'movement': a group of people dedicated to his ideas of pacifism, vegetarianism, sexual abstinence & communal property who have gathered in a nearby forest camp. When the head of the movement, Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), urges Leo to rewrite his will to posthumously renounce his material possessions, thereby leaving his family with nothing, Tolstoy's wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) does all she can to influence her husband & protect her inheritance. ...

Based on actual events, previously covered in the 2002 documentary ' Bus 174', this gritty drama traces the events & circumstances that led to an armed siege on a Rio bus in June 2000. After her baby son Allessandro is kidnapped by a drug gang to whom she owes a debt, reformed drug addict Marisa (Chris Vianna) spends her time scouring the juvenile detention homes in search of her son. Meanwhile, in another part of Rio, Sandro do Nascimento (Vitor Carvalho), a young homeless boy, arrives at his mother's shop to find her brutally murdered. After running away & falling in with a group of street kids, Sandro becomes a drug addict, narrowly managing to survive the 1993 massacre of homeless children at Candelaria. When he is sent to a juveline detention centre, he is found by Mariso, who mistakes him for her lost son Alessandro, & takes him into her care. But despite Marisa's best efforts, the now adult Sandro (Michel Gomes)'s despair soon leads him to take a busload of passengers hostage. ...

Fleeing from the tedium of his everyday life & the painful memory of a dying father, the narrator embarks on a long solitary journey. He retraces the footsteps of real-life malcontent & misanthrope par-excellence Arthur Cravan, the nephew of Oscar Wilde. ...

Designed in 1954 by the London Transport Engineering Manager, Colin Curtis, & introduced in 1956, the Routemaster was a fixture of the capital's streets for half a century before its withdrawal from regular service at the end of 2005. This book celebrates the role the bus played in London life. ...