Biography: Robert Powell |
While a student at Manchester University, Robert Powell began his professional theatrical career in 1964. The best-known of Powell's hundreds of stage roles was Tristan Tzara in the long-running Travesties. In films from 1967, Powell played the title... more
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The War File: The History of Warfare - The American Civil War (2005)
Tags: History Military & War
Length: 55min
Acclaimed actor Robert Powell (Jesus of Nazareth) narrates this panoramic documentary overview of the American Civil War. The program spans numerous major events of the bloody and visceral four-year conflict, from one of the earliest battles at Fort...
Cast: Robert Powell
Tags: Adventure Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 103min
The owner of a luxury locomotive hires a sleuthing tour guide to recover valuables stolen by an elusive theif in this period adventure drama filmed aboard the famed Pride of Africa. The Pride of Africa was waiting to leave the station when a thief...
Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconcious (1991)
Tags: Biography Visual Arts Art History Graphic & Applied Arts
Length: 90min
Review the work of Ernst through his perspective as he evaluates his evolution as an artist. ~ All Movie Guide
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993)
Tags: Drama
Length: 102min
This drama is adapted from Dicken's unfinished novel and centers upon a choirmaster who is insanely jealous of his fiancee. This jealousy causes him many problems down the road. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Length: 106min
In its centuries-long role as the premiere empire in the world, Britain had a long history of putting political expediency over what most would consider to be the demands of common humanity. In this wartime drama, the Wellington Regiment, composed...
Cast: Ben Kingsley John Hurt Vanessa Redgrave Francesca Annis Maggie Smith
Length: 130min
Despite the use in this film of voices dubbed by greats of English theater, the casting of long-haired cats to play the roles of Romeo and Juliet seems somewhat perverse. Nonetheless, the lines are well read, and the movie contains some fine original...
Cast: Christopher Plummer F. Murray Abraham
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 113min
Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
Cast: Anne Heywood Timothy Bottoms
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Action Sci-Fi Action Fantasy Adventure
Length: 88min
Secrets of the Phantom Caverns is a goofy fantasy filmed on the cheap by the ever-canny Don Sharp. The story involves a team of anthropologists and military men who busy themselves exploring a serpentine system of subterranean caves. They discover of...
Cast: Stefania Sandrelli
Tags: Biopic
Length: 109min
During his lifetime, the noted Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio was considered to be a genius, a daring adventurer, and a major Italian nationalist. During the Mussolini era, he was still considered to be a major figure in Italian literature, and...
Fonteyn and Nureyev: The Perfect Partnership (1985)
Length: 90min
This performance video from Kultur is a collection of highlights from famous dance partners Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Clips include +Le Corsaire, +Les Sylphides, and +Romeo and Juliet. Narrated by Robert Powell. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie...
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