Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Towards the end of World War Two American troops based in Europe see the success of D-Day as a sign that they will soon return home However the Battle of Hurtgen forest claims 24000 lives in just three months Private David Manning is promoted for his bravery after carrying a wounded comrade to safety & reluctantly placed in charge of raw recruits Manning&s only thoughts are of escape from the carnage of war as he embarks on a final mission ...

Seventeen year old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove California his whole life & only one thing has ever changed his father used to be alive & now he's not Now Jonah must numbly take care of his family as they reel from their tragedy Cue next change Vivi Alexander new girl in town Vivi is in love with life A gorgeous & unfiltered hurricane of thoughts & feelings She seems like she's from another planet as she transforms Jonah's family & changes his life But there are always consequences when worlds collide A fierce & beautiful love story with a difference When We Collided will thrill fans of All the Bright Places & I'll Give You the Sun ...

The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Born in 1954 Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself There were Like thousands of other young people Jones nearly penniless was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco a city electrified by progressive politics & sexual freedom Jones found community
- in the hotel rooms & ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers in the city&s bathhouses & gay bars like The Stud & in the burgeoning gay district the Castro where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop began shouting through his bullhorn & soon became the nation&s most outspoken gay elected official With Milk&s encouragement Jones dove into politics & found his calling in &the movement& When Milk was killed by an assassin&s bullet in 1978 Jones took up his mentor&s progressive mantle
- only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again By turns tender & uproarious
- & written entirely in his own words
- When We Rise is Jones& account of his remarkable life He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS which very nearly killed him too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco & the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people & other misfits; & the harrowing sexy & sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve&s passionate relationships with friends & lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom & possibility & prejudice & violence alike When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full & transformative American life
- an activist whose work continues today




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Some of the women walked so slow they were like floating For real Heads perfectly straight Hips swaying left slow right slow step slow If you didn't concentrate you would think they weren't moving at all their bodies just hanging in space Best mates Karl & Abu are both 17 & live near Kings Cross Its 2011 & racial tensions are set to explode across London Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her Meanwhile Karl is the target of the local "wannabe" thugs just for being different When Karl finds out his father lives in Nigeria he decides that Port Harcourt is the best place to escape the sound & fury of London & connect with a Dad he's never known Rejected on arrival Karl befriends Nakale an activist who wants to expose the ecocide in the Niger Delta to the world & falls headlong for his feisty cousin Janoma Meanwhile the murder of Mark Duggan triggers a full-scale riot in London Abu finds himself in its midst leading to a near-tragedy that forces Karl to race back home When We Speak of Nothing launches a powerful new voice onto the literary stage The fluid prose peppered with contemporary slang captures what it means to be young black & queer in London If grime music were a novel it would be this ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When We Were Kings The true story of the legendary & Rumble in the Jungle& of 1974 in which Muhammad Ali endured a titanic battle with George Foreman The fight took place in Zaire amidst a wealth of publicity & political intrigue & this film pieced together over 20 years chronicles it all Featuring the music of the Fugees James Brown & BB King When We Were Kings won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary I Am Ali An intimate & heart-warming look at the man behind the legend--as we&ve never seen Ali before I Am Ali is told through exclusive unprecedented access to Ali&s personal archive of ‘audio journals& combined with touching interviews & testimonials from his inner circle of family & friends including his daughters son ex-wife & brother plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson George Foreman & Gene Kilroy Experience Ali&s extraordinary story as a fighter lover brother father--told from the inside for the very first time The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali&s life When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali his conversion to Islam & refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing & facing a fve-year prison sentence Ali&s choice of belief & conscience over fame & fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring striking issues of race faith & identity that continue to confront us all today ...

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day & Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England the 1930s Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective his cases the talk of London society Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him the mysterious disappearance of his parents in old Shanghai when he was a small boy Moving between inter-war London & Shanghai When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory intrigue & the need to return ...

' They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace
- Christopher Robin went down with Alice' Curl up with A A Milne's classic book of
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' They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace
- Christopher Robin went down with Alice' Curl up with A A Milne's classic book of
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play On September 25 1974 in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals in its history
- the ignominious collapse of the Nixon presidency
- America was poised to watch a knockout punch that would redefine it as a nation of champions In the atmosphere of a three-ring circus in Zaire a little known country ruled by a military dictator on the little-noticed continent of Africa two American fighters held the world&s attention One would capture the world&s imagination But four days before the scheduled " Rumble in the Jungle" as the heavyweight championship matchup between reigning title holder George Foreman & challenger Muhammad Ali was called the promoters announced that there would be a six week delay & in that time span as the international media took in the rhythms of the music ant the mysterious beauty of the land & as anticipation for the fight mounted an entirely new phenomenon evolved
- black Americans saw their own generational crossroads reflected in the contrasting images of the two men who had returned to Africa to fight Actors Muhammad Ali George Foreman Don King James Brown BB King Mobutu Sese Seko Spike Lee Norman Mailer George Plimpton & Thomas Hauser Director Leon Gast Certificate PGYear 1996 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Surround Duration 1 hour & 24 minutes (approx)



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In a quiet corner of rural Devon a six-year-old girl witnesses an appalling crime Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison In Edinburgh sixteen-year-old Reggie wise beyond her years works as a nanny for a GP But her employer has disappeared with her baby & Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried Across town Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance
- Jackson Brodie
- himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted

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