Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Oscar (r)-winning actor Sean Penn (Best Actor Mystic River 2003) two-time Academy Award (r) nominee Jude Law (Best Supporting Actor The Talented Mr Ripley 1999; Best Actor Cold Mountain 2003) four-time Academy Award (r) nominee Kate Winslet (Best Supporting Actress Sense & Sensibility 1995; Iris 2001 Best Actress Titanic 1997; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004) & Oscar (r) winner Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor The Silence of the Lambs 1991) star in this riveting story of a humble man&s rise to political power & the destructive force of corruption & betrayal that would ultimately unravel his soul based on Robert Penn Warren&s 1946 classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Willie Stark (Penn) is an ordinary man from a rural town demanding that crooked politicians & shady businessmen in Lousiana be held accountable for the collapse of a poorly built school Urged to run for Governor by a dubious political advisor Tiny Duffy (three-time Emmy (r) Award winner ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fresh from America&s Deep South ambitious politician Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) finds popularity as a reformer but as his career takes off he gradually becomes corrupted by his newly-acquired power Based on Robert Penn Warren&s novel which itself was a disguised account of the life & career of Louisiana governor Huey Long the film won Oscars for Best Picture Best Actor (Broderick Crawford) & Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes Mc Cambridge) Actors Broderick Crawford John Ireland Joanne Dru John Derek Mercedes Mc Cambridge Directors Robert Rossen Language English Subtitles Bulgarian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Hebrew Classification URun Time 105 minutes ...

All the Kremlin&s Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king & a court out of control Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin&s inner circle this book presents a radically different view of power & politics in Russia The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted--if not controlled--by the men who at once advise & deceive him The regional governors & bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself So are the gatekeepers-those officials who guard the pathways to power-on whom Putin depends as much as they rely on him The tenuous edifice is filled with all of the intrigue & plotting of a Medici court as enemies of the state are invented & wars begun to justify personal gains internal rivalries or one faction&s biased advantage A bestseller in Russia All the Kremlin&s Men is a shocking revisionist portrait of the Putin era & a dazzling reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot ...

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA beautiful stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl & a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II‘ Open your eyes & see what you can with them before they close forever’ For Marie-Laure blind since the age of six the world is full of mazes The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood made by her father to teach her the way home The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History The walled city by the sea where father & daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris & a future which draws her ever closer to Werner a German orphan destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility & brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth In this magnificent deeply moving novel the stories of Marie-Laure & Werner illuminate the ways against all odds people try to be good to one another ...

She could have stopped an awful crime She could have saved a life She tried to forget about it But now the truth is out The terrifying new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution & Pretty Little Things GIRLS ARE DISAPPEARING INPALM BEACH COUNTY Prostitutes strippers
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It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on 17 June 1972 Bob Woodward a journalist for the Washington Post was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story Carl Bernstein a political reporter on the Post was also assigned They soon learned this was no ordinary burglary Following lead after lead Woodward & Bernstein picked up a trail of money conspiracy & high-level pressure that ultimately led to the doors of the Oval Office Men very close to the President were implicated & then Richard Nixon himself Over a period of months Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat for decades the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism As he & Bernstein pieced the jigsaw together they produced a series of explosive stories that would not only win the Post a Pulitzer Prize they would bring about the President's scandalous downfall ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN documents this amazing story Taut gripping & fascinating it is a classic of its kind -- the true story of the events that changed the American presidency ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford star in this political thriller about the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) & Bob Woodward (Redford) aided by the White House mole Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook) thwart Nixon&s attempted cover-up after his agents are caught breaking in to the Watergate complex in 1972 The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jason Robards) & Best Writing Screenplay Based On Material from Another Medium & was nominated for another four including Best Picture & Best Director ...

'A uniquely brilliant book told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' Stephen Amidon Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins Befriending a third boy on the way they find a country beyond their imagining barren & beautiful rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac Mc Carthy & a grand love story a novel about childhood passing along with innocence & a vanished American age Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss it is a magnificent parable of responsibility revenge & survival ...