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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
300 : In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or...
2) 300
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers and tradesmen-actors. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon and his queen Titania produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
8) Alexander
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Two-disc special ed., widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
10) Helen of Troy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
2-disc ed.
Language
English
Description
A re-telling of the classic tale of power and corruption, moved by the passions and desires of towering personalities. Aphrodite promises the most beautiful woman in the world to Paris, Prince of Troy, but alas, Helen is already married to Menelaus King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon. When she escapes to Troy with Paris, Menelaus rallies the kings of Greece to attack Troy. Also included are the prophecies of Cassandra, the sacrifice of Iphigenia,...
11) Dogtooth
Publisher
Verve Pictures [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Greek
Description
"Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience,...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003-c2004
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Deadly drifter: A self-styled urban guerrilla is sent on clandestine assignments across the U.S. by a mysterious employer. Blood tide: An archaeologist working in Greece awakens a sea creature whose killing can only be stopped by sacrificing a virgin. A house painter/poet struggles to provide emotional and financial support for his cancer-stricken wife. Death of a prophet: Chronicles the final twenty-four hours of the life of Malcolm X.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
1-disc ultimate ed.
Language
English
Description
James Bond is thrust into one of his most reveting adventures filled with outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. James has a lethal determination to find himself infiltrating the Greek underworld and races against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines.
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1988,1984
Language
English
Description
The dramatic retelling of the struggles of Baron Pierre du Coubertin who revived the ancient Olympic games in 1896, the Princeton professor who pulled together the first American team, and the athletes who competed.
15) My life in ruins
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. When Poupi replaces her regular driver at the last minute, Georgia thinks that her luck has just hit rock bottom. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics, a division of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Only lovers left alive: Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A collection of 12 Hallmark favorites: A Safari Romance; While You Were Dating; Walking the Dog; My Favorite Wedding; Love Blossoms; Love's Greek to Me; A Taste of Summer; The Vows We Keep; Never Too Late to Celebrate; Fourth Down and Love; Valentine's Again; and Retreat to You.
A safari romance: Megan Henry, a down-to-earth wildlife biologist, working on a project that will foster protection of wildlife in Africa, is forced to team up with a theme...
19) The lobster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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