Brian Glover
Author
Language
English
Description
This story is about me, a boy who grew up in a small town in West Virginia. One night, my dad and I were watching the news, and they showed the hippies and talked about what they were doing. I told my dad that it was what I was going to do. He told me to go for it. I did. At thirteen, I hitchhiked to Virginia Beach and back. When I got home, I did go to jail. My grandfather would get me out. He was a deputy sheriff. I left home a lot. I always went...
4) Kes
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
British filmmaking soared with this marvelous production chronicling the boyhood experiences of Billy, whose expectations lead no further than following his miner father into the pits when he reaches manhood. Everything changes, however, when Billy finds KES, an injured Kestrel, which he nurses and cherishes back to health. Billy's devotion to KES allows him to rise above the dark realities of his Northern British life and soar as high as the human...
9) Alien 3
Language
English
Description
Lt. Ripley is the only survivor when her spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161, an area inhabited by former inmates of the planet's prison. Ripley fears an Alien was aboard her ship and soon evidence begins to appear. Without modern technology, she must lead the inmates into battle with the horrible creature.
10) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
13) Campion
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Albert Campion with gentle deceptive naiveté, has a passion for the excitement and danger of solving a variety of crimes.
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
Eros Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
Hindi
Description
Set against the historical backdrop of the "Quit India Movement" during India's struggle for independence, this romantic story portrays the martyrdom of freedom fighters and the sacrifices that common folk as well as the elite were willing to make in the national cause. The turbulence of August 1942 was remarkable for the violence meted out by the British to curb the momentum the independence movement had gained.