Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Amelia stars two-time Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart the legendary aviatrix & enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit who was guided by a profound curiosity for everything life had to offer Earhart&s early aviation triumphs & meteoric rise to fame & fortune were propelled along by her tempestuous partnership & eventual marriage to publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) Bound by mutual ambition admiration & ultimately a great love their bond could not be broken even with her brief passionate affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan Mc Gregor) Ms Earhart was the first woman to solo the Atlantic & was the first pilot man or woman to fly unaccompanied across the Pacific In Amelia&s attempt to be the first to fly around the world in an equatorial flight her life was tragically cut short with her mysterious & untimely disappearance over the South Pacific in 1937 Actors Hilary Swank Ewan Mc Gregor Richard Gere Christopher Eccleston Joe Anderson Cherry Jones Mia Wasikowska Aaron Abrams Dylan Roberts Scott Yaphe Tom Fairfoot Ryann Shane William Cuddy Elizabeth Shepherd & Richard Donat Director Mira Nair Certificate PG Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
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Irish Times The kind of books that adults will covet & collect as well The language & structure is simple enough for young readers while a biographical timeline at the end of each book offers greater historical complexity In the Little People Big Dreams series discover the lives of outstanding people from designers & artists to scientists All of them went on to achieve incredible things yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream The book follows Amelia Earhart whose strong will & self-belief helped her overcome prejudice & technical problems to become the first female flier to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean This inspiring & informative little biography comes with extra facts about Amelia's life at the back ...

Part of the bestselling Little People BIG DREAMS series this board book version of Amelia Earhart tells the inspiring story of the fearless female flier 24 pages Sanchez Vegara Maria Isabel ...

A GORGEOUSLY GOTHIC WICKEDLY FUNNY NEW SERIES FROM WITCH WARS ILLUSTRATOR LAURA ELLEN ANDERSONWelcome to the world of Nocturnia where darkness reigns supreme glitter is terrifying & unicorns are the stuff of nightmares! Amelia Fang would much rather hang out with her pet pumpkin Squashy & her friends Florence the yeti (DON'T CALL HER BEAST!) & Grimaldi the reaper than dance at her parents' annual Barbaric Ball & when the King's spoiled son Tangine captures Squashy Amelia & her friends must escape the party to plan a daring rescue! In their race against time they begin to realise things in Nocturnia may not be quite what they seem Join Amelia on her very first adventure She won't bite! This gloriously ghostly new series from the creator of EVIL EMPEROR PENGUIN is perfect for 7-9 year olds & fans of THE WORST WITCH & WITCH WARS Amelia Fang is a modern Wednesday Addams
- but much more loveable! Look out for Amelia's next adventure AMELIA FANG & THE UNICORN LORDS coming soon! Praise for Amelia Fang & the Barbaric Ball' Brilliantly imagined laugh-out-loud funny' Sunday Express' The perfect mixture of funny foul & fearful' Metro When she's not trying to take over the world or fighting sock-stealing monsters Laura Ellen Anderson is a professional children's book author & illustrator with an increasing addiction to coffee She spends every waking hour creating & drawing & would quite like to live on the moon when humans finally make it possible Laura is the creator of EVIL EMPEROR PENGUIN & illustrator of WITCH WARS as well as many other children's books AMELIA FANG is her first series as author-illustrator
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A GORGEOUSLY GOTHIC WICKEDLY FUNNY NEW SERIES FROM WITCH WARS ILLUSTRATOR LAURA ELLEN ANDERSON 240 pages Anderson Laura Ellen ...

Amelie & Nanette are very excited! Christmas is coming & they are busy making their fairy costumes for the party at school But on the day of the party poor Nanette starts to shiver & sneeze
- & has to stay at home! They are both sad but when Nanette gets better a special fairy comes to visit & Pilou the dog delivers a sack full of cards from her school friends! An enchanting festive story featuring two very special girls who discover that the best gift of all is to have a friend to share Christmas with Contains beautiful Christmassy paper chains to cut out & make!
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play She&ll change your life Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris observing With wide eyes & a tiny grin she sees the world in a magical light discovering minor miracles every day A shy girl whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming stones into the water Amelie was raised by a pair of eccentrics who falsely diagnosed her with a heart problem at the age of six & so limited her exposure to the outside world Now a free & independent woman Amelie wears a bob that curls in every direction & dresses in red With a job in a cafe & an aptitude for spying on her neighbors Amelie entertains herself by enacting a series of homemade kindhearted practical jokes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The story of Amelie a naive girl living & working in Paris Amelie has craved love all her life at the age of eight her mother was the victim of a freak accident & her father was unable to give the attention she deserved One day Amelie realises that the way to true happiness is to improve the lives of those around her French dialogue with subtitles ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Amen live at Manchester University on 1st February 2003 Tracks include & Coma America& & Refuse Amen& Justified& & Buy America& & The Waiting 18& & Mayday& & & Gun of a Preacherman ...

Filmmaker Costa-Gavras (' Mad City' ' Music Box' & ' Missing') has a reputation for controversial political cinema & he does not fail to raise eyebrows with ' Amen' Focusing on the Vatican's unwillingness to oppose the Holocaust & two men who tried to change the system from within ' Amen' is adapted from the play ' The Representative' by Rolf Hochhuth It is based on a true story about officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) a Nazi soldier who moved up the SS ranks by devising a chemical method to purify soldiers' drinking water Gerstein is unaware of the horrors of the concentration camps until he is recruited by The Doctor (Ulrich Muhe) to adapt the same chemical for use in the gas chambers Though Gerstein is overwhelmed by the reality of the impending massacre he does not turn a blind eye He informs the Swedes the German Protestant Church & even the Vatican But he is sent away dismissed & otherwise silenced by all but the tenacious Father Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz) a fictitious character based on a number of priests who fought against the Holocaust Father Riccardo takes life-threatening risks in a fruitless effort to convince the cardinal (Michel Duchaussoy) & the Pope (Marcel Iures) to rise above their fears of Nazi retribution ...