Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
Updates on the Alma Powell Branch Library can be found on kpl.gov/pow.
Check out these movies from British directors, or those set in England
DVD
Brief encounter [2012]
David Lean
The red shoes [2010]
J Arthur Rank
Kes [2011]
Ken Loach
Meantime [1984]
Mike Leigh
Mr. Turner [2015]
Life is sweet [1990]
Topsy-turvy [1999]
Vera Drake [2004]
Happy-go-lucky [2009]
Simon Channing-Williams
Naked [2005]
I, Daniel Blake [2016]
Blu-ray
Lawrence of Arabia [2012]
Great expectations [1946]
In which we serve [2012]
This happy breed [2012]
Blithe spirit [2012]
Summertime [1998]
The bridge on the River Kwai [2008]
Oliver Twist [1998]
John Howard Davies
Hobson's choice [1954]
This sporting life [1963]
Julian Wintle
The loneliness of the long distance runner [2007]
Alan Sillitoe
I know where I'm going! [2001]
Michael Powell
The life and death of Colonel Blimp [2013]
A matter of life and death [2018]
Black narcissus [1947]
A Canterbury tale [1944]
49th parallel [1941]
The third man [2007]
Carol Reed
T2 trainspotting [2017]
Danny Boyle
Trainspotting [1996]
John Hodge
Shallow grave [2012]
Withnail and I [1986]
Bruce Robinson
A room with a view [1986]
James Ivory
Maurice [2017]
Howards End [2010]
Visual Materials
The remains of the day [1993]
Anthony Hopkins
Made in Dagenham [2010]
Nigel Cole
This is England [2006]
Mark Herbert
The 39 steps [1935]
Alfred Hitchcock
The king's speech [2010]
Tom Hooper
Following [2012]
Christopher Nolan
Interstellar [2014]
Dunkirk [2017]
Inception [2010]
Insomnia [2002]
The Dark Knight [2008]
Batman begins [2005]
Memento [2000]
Odd man out [1947]
Night train to Munich [1940]
Sidney Gilliat
The fallen idol [1948]
Ralph Richardson
Chimes at midnight [1966]
Orson Welles
Watership Down [2015]
Martin Rosen
Richard III [1955]
Laurence Olivier
Time bandits [1981]
Terry Gilliam
Alfie [1965]
Lewis Gilbert
Sense and sensibility [1995]
Ang Lee
Hunger [2010]
Steve McQueen
Shame [2011]
12 years a slave [2014]
Never let me go [2010]
Mark Romanek