Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An ethnographic shaggy-dog story set & filmed in Australian swamp Centred around an expedition by canoe to gather goose eggs the film unfolds as village elder Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) discovers that his youngest wife is much desired by his callow younger brother Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) As the expedition proceeds Minygululu gradually relates a cautionary fable about Ridjimiraril (Crusoe Kurddal)
- a proud warrior who like the narrator (David Gulpilil) has three wives & an envious younger brother (also played by Jamie Gulpilil) & whose life is thrown into turmoil when one of his wives disappears mysteriously after a stranger appears in the area
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Set in a time before the &white man& came to Australia this Aboriginal Dreamtime tale of magic & mystery will touch your heart Actors Crusoe Kurddal David Gulpilil & Jaime Gulpilil Director Rolf De Heer Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour 28 minutes (approx)
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From Tristram Hunt award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist & leading UK politician Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 & the end days of Empire Britain's colonial past has been the subject of passionate debate Tristram Hunt goes beyond the now familiar arguments about Empire being good or bad & adopts a fresh approach to Britain's empire & its legacy Through an exceptional array of first-hand accounts & personal reflections he portrays the great colonial & imperial cities of Boston Bridgetown Dublin Cape Town Calcutta Hong Kong Bombay Melbourne New Delhi & twentieth-century Liverpool their architecture culture & society balls; the famines uprisings & repressions which coursed through them; the primitive accumulation & ghostly bureaucracy which ran them; the British supremacists & multicultural trailblazers who inhabited them From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India from west to east & back again Hunt follows the processes of exchange & adaptation that collectively moulded the colonial experience & which in their turn transformed the culture economy & identity of the British Isles This vivid & richly detailed imperial story located in ten of the most important cities which the Empire constructed demolished reconstructed & transformed allows us a new understanding of the British Empire's influence upon the world & the world's influence upon it Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist' Beautifully written & consistently engaging'
- Independent' An excellent book Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture & European political thought'
- Robert Service Sunday Times' Thoughtful & engaging'
- Telegraph Review


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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 This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B De Mille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt The film begins as the pharaoh&s daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses & takes him to the shelter of her family Charlton Heston stars as the young man raised by the pharaoh as an Egyptian prince Moses is righteous & kind the favored successor to the kingdom which results in the deep-seated jealousy of Prince Rameses (Yul Brynner) Rameses & Moses compete for the throne & the love of the young princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter) until Moses learns the truth about his origins & joins the Jewish slaves in their fight for freedom After receiving the Ten Commandments from God Moses helps free the Jews from the pharaoh&s tyrannical rule surmounting all obstacles in his way including the parting of the Red Sea in one of the movie&s most famous scenes Cecil B De Mille&s extravagant final film & remake of his silent 1923 version is a legendary combination of the master showman&s love of historical realism spectacle lavish scenic design & dizzying crowd sequences The exodus alone is a stunning feat of modern cinema featuring thousands of actors trekking through the arid desert as Pharaoh&s chariots chase after them ...

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 Moses the Prince of Egypt
- One biblical figure is revered by Jews Christians & Muslims alike The man who rose in power to defend a people to free them & to live in history like no other
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Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows Shirotani begins opening his heart to Kurose until the counselor suddenly tells him that their sessions are over Shocked Shirotani withdraws into his home refusing to come out Out of the blue Kurose texts him & asks to see him What will Shirotani do when he finds out the secret Kurose has been hiding from him this whole time? ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows While out on the town with Kurose Shirotani daydreams about the younger man kissing him His desire quickly overcomes his phobia of human touch & he gives himself over to his counselor's hands for relief Watch as the relationship between the corporate secretary & his counselor continues to boil over in this story of love & therapy ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows At the mercy of Kurose's hands & words Shirotani finally hears the full reason Kurose fell in love with him The truth is such a surprise that Shirotani runs away from him in shock & it isn't long before his body starts aching for Kurose's touch causing Shirotani to soothe his own desire But in doing so he scares up memories of the traumatic event at the core of his compulsion ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows Seeing Kurose for the first time in two months Shirotani takes a big step forward in their relationship-and his treatment-by holding hands with Kurose Then after Kurose fails to invite him home Shirotani chases after him! Could this new more impulsive side of Shirotani signal a new phase in this tumultuous relationship? ...

' It flashed upon me suddenly they were going to shoot me!' This electrifying eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution written by an American journalist in St Petersburg as the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 is an unsurpassed record of history in the making ...