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This 1981 television miniseries, based on Ernest K. Gann's historical novel The Antagonists, is a dramatization of a documented revolt by nearly a thousand Jerusalem Jews against Roman oppressors in A.D. 72 to 73. Following a city-wide siege by Rome's soldiers, Jewish Zealots move into a fortress in the mountains of Masada, from which they present a defense strong enough to convince the ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle, David Warner
Directed By: Boris Sagal

This lush, perfectly cast 1969 drama concerns both a doomed, royal love affair and a pivotal moment in British history. Based on Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play, Anne of the Thousand Days concerns the mess that surrounded King Henry VIII's decision to rid himself of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (Irene Papas), and marry the young Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold). Anglophiles know ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos
Directed By: Charles Jarrott

Manufacturer: Starmaker Entertainment
Starring: Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Forrest, Peter Gilmore, Nicholas Hammond
Directed By: Charles S. Dubin, Joseph Sargent

Manufacturer: Avid Home Ent
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy, Sylvia Syms
Directed By: Blake Edwards

The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tears apart the greatest empire the world has seen. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the center are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the aging emperor (Alec Guinness), ...

Manufacturer: Best Film And Video
Starring: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Directed By: Anthony Mann

This rousing, explosive 1961 WWII adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded cast charged with a near impossible mission: destroy a pair of German guns nestled in a protective cave on the strategic Mediterranean island of Navarone, from where they can control a vital sea passage. As world famous ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker
Directed By: Alexander Mackendrick, J. Lee Thompson

Behold this critically acclaimed feature-length fantasy created, written, and directed by Richard Williams, the three-time Academy Award(R)-winning animator. Almost 30 years in the making, it incorporates extraordinary M.C. Escher-like backgrounds with classic two-and-a-half-dimension hand-painted animation. In the ancient city of Baghdad, magically protected by three Golden Balls, a timid ...

Manufacturer: Miramax
Starring: Vincent Price, Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Quayle, Hilary Pritchard
Directed By: Richard Williams

Though not as briskly exciting as the 2002 theatrical release, this earlier TV adaptation of Robert Ludlum's bestseller has distinct advantages over its big-screen counterpart. It's far more loyal to Ludlum's serpentine plot, boasts greater latitude of geography and character development (allowing Richard Chamberlain's fine performance in the title role), and rises above TV limitations to achieve ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle, Donald Moffat, Yorgo Voyagis
Directed By: Roger Young

This rousing, explosive 1961 WWII adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded cast charged with a near impossible mission: destroy a pair of German guns nestled in a protective cave on the strategic Mediterranean island of Navarone, from where they can control a vital sea passage. As world famous ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker
Directed By: Alexander Mackendrick, J. Lee Thompson

A British television series originally broadcast on CBS (and rebroadcast on PBS) in America in 1971, The Six Wives of Henry VIII remains a painless way to learn something about royal history and its impact on the political and religious landscape of England. Keith Michell stars as King Henry VIII, who assumes the throne as a boy after the death of his older brother and inherits the latter's ...

Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
Starring: Keith Michell, Annette Crosbie, Dorothy Tutin, Anne Stallybrass, Elvi Hale
Directed By: John Glenister, Naomi Capon