Looking for Victoria (2003)

Actors: Robert Lang (actor), Andrew Sachs (actor), Geoffrey Palmer (actor), David Ryall (actor), Charles Dance (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Prunella Scales (actress), Prunella Scales (actress), Timothy West (actor), Patrick Godfrey (actor), Christopher Benjamin (actor), Hugh Lloyd (actor), Richenda Carey (actress), David Hewson (composer), Denis Healey (actor),

Plot: Prunella Scales researches the life of Queen Victoria and interviews historians to help her with her portrayal of Queen Victoria in her one-woman stage show "An Evening with Queen Victoria". She also portrays Queen Victoria in the historical reconstructions in this programme and reads from Queen Victoria's private diaries written late in life and unpublished until now.

Keywords: docudrama
Genres: Drama,

America: A Call to Greatness (1995)

Actors: Charlton Heston (actor), Dorian Harewood (actor), Rita Moreno (actress), Jane Russell (actress), Blue Deckert (actor), Melissa L. Nichols (costume designer), Mickey Rooney (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Danny Kamin (actor), Gabriel Folse (actor), Warren Chaney (director), Warren Chaney (producer), Warren Chaney (writer), Suzanne Savoy (actress),

Plot: America: A Call to Greatness, relates the story of the American Nation from its founding through it's rise to greatness. It reflects the historical roots of the United States as the program tugs at the nation's heartstrings. This patriotic special features many distinguished hosts as well as notable political figures from both sides of the political aisle also appear. Fourteen large-scale patriotic music numbers are showcased. Gene Autry, former cowboy, businessman, film and recording star makes a special appearance. In what was to be his final performance, Autry introduces the first song since his retirement in 1994. Using heavily researched historical re-creations, special moments in American history are captured with the look and feel of the period. A careful analysis of original period sculptures, drawings, photographs and paintings, helped create a 3-D "likeness" of each individual portrayed in the production. Through the magic of film and prosthetic makeup, important Americans from John Adams to Clara Barton are created for film. Highly experienced character actors expertly bring their roles to life on the big screen.

Genres: Documentary,

Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963)

Actors: Frederick Worlock (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Greer Garson (actress), Denholm Elliott (actor), George Schaefer (director), George Schaefer (producer), Kate Reid (actress), Hurd Hatfield (actor), Eric Berry (actor), Frederic Tozere (actor), James Lee (writer), Chris Gampel (actor), Joan White (actress), Norman Barrs (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama,

Happy and Glorious (1952)

Actors: Edmund Willard (actor), Ernest Milton (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Mudlark (1950)

Actors: Vi Kaley (actress), Nunnally Johnson (producer), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Anthony Steel (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Irene Dunne (actress), Alec Guinness (actor), Leonard Sharp (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), Edward Rigby (actor), Ernest Clark (actor), Raymond Lovell (actor), Howard Douglas (actor), William Alwyn (composer), Nunnally Johnson (writer),

Plot: In 1875 London, young Wheeler, who lives by scavenging, finds a cameo of Queen Victoria which he thinks so beautiful he risks his life to save it. Possessed of a desire to see the Queen, he slips past the Beefeaters and wanders about Windsor Castle, just when a state dinner is in preparation. Meanwhile, prime minister Disraeli is struggling hard to persuade the Queen to end her long seclusion

Keywords: 19th-century, aristocrat, based-on-novel, beggar, benjamin-disraeli, building, cameo, castle, charm, child-welfare
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Disraeli: Such proposals as slum clearance, public housing, educational facilities for the poor, are all wise and worthy measures and consequently will be opposed vigorously. The British are a proud and independent people, ma'am, and will not yield to improvement without a stout struggle.

Wheeler, the Mudlark: [asking about going to meet the queen] Are you sure it's all right, sir?::John Brown: What?::Wheeler, the Mudlark: You're a bit sozzled, ain't ya, sir?::John Brown: Sozzled?::Wheeler, the Mudlark: Yes sir, you've been in the bottle a bit, you know?::John Brown: [rises to his feet a bit unsteadily] Only enough to keep off infection, laddie.

The Prime Minister (1941)

Actors: Abraham Sofaer (actor), Brock Williams (writer), Barbara Everest (actress), Jack Beaver (composer), Michael Hogan (writer), Fay Compton (actress), John Gielgud (actor), Gordon McLeod (actor), Joss Ambler (actor), Glynis Johns (actress), Frederick Leister (actor), Leslie Perrins (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Leslie Norman (editor), Owen Nares (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,

Quotes:

Benjamin 'Dizzy' Disraeli, aka Lord Beaconsfield- Disraeli: In an autocracy, the leader is the people. Europe is at the mercy of the most ruthless band of autocrats the world has yet seen. I know these dictators, these men of blood and iron, they have one weakness; they are always in a hurry. Their god is power, and its kingdom is on this Earth. They are men without humility and without hearts. The virtues we hold dear they call weaknesses, and what we love they despise. They hold themselves a race apart, divinely ordained to rule the world to the exclusion of all others. That is a form of madness that must eventually destroy the world or be destroyed, it cannot be appeased by soft words or good neighbourliness. All civilised methods of approach to international agreement are signs of weakness to these men. They recognise one argument, and one argument alone - FORCE!

Sixty Glorious Years (1938)

Actors: Jack Watling (actor), Herbert Wilcox (producer), C. Aubrey Smith (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Anna Neagle (actress), Derrick De Marney (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Edgar Driver (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Anton Walbrook (actor), Gordon McLeod (actor), Frederick Leister (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Miles Malleson (writer),

Plot: Picking up where "Victoria the Great" left off, this sequel to the 1938 film returns Anna Neagle to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch's reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Victoria's relationship with Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) as well as the political and military upheavals that characterized her time as England's royal leader.

Keywords: 19th-century, archer, benjamin-disraeli, britain, brother, buckingham-palace-london, coronation, death, destiny, dignitary
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A picture to storm your heart and sweep your senses . . . Drama behind palace doors . . . Drama on the battlefield . . . A world of conflict and emotion, brought to you in a picture that for sheer beauty and magnitude stands alone! . . . Don't Miss It!

Suez (1938)

Actors: Alphonse Martell (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Miles Mander (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Fred Malatesta (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Robert Graves (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor),

Plot: De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.

Keywords: 1850s, alexandria-egypt, ambition, arc-de-triomphe-paris, award, betrayal, broken-promise, burial, camel, canal
Genres: Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: A man of two loves and one mighty deed ! HE CHANGED THE MAP of the World! The stirring saga of the world's most astonishing engineering achievement!

Quotes:

Benjamin Disraeli: [to the House of Commons] By all means support this policy; by all means rally round the Prime Minister; by all means follow cheerfully and unquestioningly his leadership. All of you... who are as anxious as he to see England reduced to the standing of a third-rate power!

[His party appears to be losing the election]::Benjamin Disraeli: Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Apparently the present government have temporarily averted the danger of England taking over the leadership of the world, huh?

Ferdinand de Lesseps: Oh, Eugenie, darling, I'm leaving for Egypt in an hour and 45 minutes. Will you marry me?::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: I'm going there as secretary to the Consulate. Marry me, come with me. Rene's going for the license.::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What license? What are you talking about?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: The marriage license! Quick, pack your things, we've just time to get to the church.::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that, you know I couldn't...::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Don't you understand, I may be gone a year, five years... this may be our last chance!::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: Oh, Ferdinand, are you insane?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: No. [pause] Yes.

[Toni's donkey has pulled her bathing machine away from the water]::Ferdinand de Lesseps: At your service, mademoiselle.::Toni Pellerin: Make him bring back my little house. My clothes are in it.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Well, why don't you come out and get them yourself?::Toni Pellerin: Shame on you.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: My dear young lady, I don't mind seeing you in your bathing dress. [pause] Ohhh! Tch, tch, tch, tch -- shame on YOU!

Toni Pellerin: Look! A rainbow! Oh, Grandfather says there's a pot of gold at the end.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: One end in the Mediterranean and the other in the Red Sea. What a pot of gold for the world if they could be joined: the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Look, Toni! That water in the old gulf. Just as it was centuries ago, when the Phoenicians sailed through. Can you imagine ships sailing right through here where we're standing?::Toni Pellerin: Ships?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Yes. Not ancient galleys but modern ships, steamers, sailing a short trade route to the East. It could be done: no elevations, no rock formations, just a simple sand... ditch. (Heh heh heh. And I was told I was going to dig ditches.) There's fate in this, Toni. Something sent me here to Egypt when I didn't want to come, kept me here when I wanted to leave. I thought it was a dead end, has been up to now. But I can make this -- I can make this spot that we're standing on the crossroads of the Earth. Why, think of it, Toni, a canal stretching through to the Mediterranean, open to the ships of all nations! It could be done, and I can do it. I was looking for a way to serve France, and I think... I think I've found a way to serve the world.

Ferdinand de Lesseps: Oh, but it's absurd to think that any one nation would dominate the canal!

Prime Minister: [to the House of Commons] Our first duty is to the mother country, England.::Members: Hear, hear!::Prime Minister: I would not trade the meanest English county for all our colonial possessions!

Disraeli (1921)

Actors: Henry Kolker (director), Reginald Denny (actor), E.J. Ratcliffe (actor), Betty Blythe (actress), Louise Huff (actress), Forrest Halsey (writer), George Arliss (actor), Louis N. Parker (writer), Henry Carvill (actor), Margaret Dale (actress), Florence Arliss (actress), Fred Nicholls (actor), Grace Griswold (actress), Noel Tearle (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama,

Disraeli (1916)

Actors: Charles Calvert (director), Percy Nash (director), Cecil Morton York (actor), Dorothy Bellew (actress), Cyril Raymond (actor), Mary Jerrold (actress), A.B. Imeson (actor), Arthur M. Cullin (actor), Fred Morgan (actor), Louis N. Parker (writer), Arrigo Bocchi (producer), Louis N. Parker (writer), Daisy Cordell (actress), Evelyn Harding (actress), Mrs. Henry Lytton (actress),

Genres: Biography, Drama,