All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Nigel Hawthorne, ranked

In the mid-1860s, an English couple and their infant son are shipwrecked off the Congolese coast. Kala, a female gorilla who recently lost her own child to Sabor, finds the human infant and takes him back to the jungle to raise as her own, despite the disapproval of her mate, Kerchak, who is also their group’s leader.

La Amistad is a slave ship transporting captured Africans from Spanish Cuba to the United States in 1839. Joseph Cinqué, a leader of the Africans, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. The mutineers spare the lives of two Spanish navigators to help them sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, the navigators misdirect the Africans and sail directly north to the east coast of the United States, where the ship is stopped by the American Navy, and the surviving Africans imprisoned as runaway slaves.

La Amistad is a slave ship transporting captured Africans from Spanish Cuba to the United States in 1839. Joseph Cinqué, a leader of the Africans, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. The mutineers spare the lives of two Spanish navigators to help them sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, the navigators misdirect the Africans and sail directly north to the east coast of the United States, where the ship is stopped by the American Navy, and the surviving Africans imprisoned as runaway slaves.

Nearly 30 years into his reign, in 1788, King Goerge III is once more getting ready for the opening of Parliament. Queen Charlotte balances her responsibilities as a loving wife and a mother to their 15 children deftly. Nevertheless, despite the façade of outward respectability, something is drastically wrong inside Windsor Castle. The King is acting in an increasingly insane manner; he babbles nonstop, hurls insults, and attacks Lady Pembroke, the Queen’s Mistress of Robes.

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton’s undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

In the land of Prydain, Taran, a teenage boy and assistant pig-keeper on the small farm of Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the Enchanter, dreams of becoming a famous warrior. Dallben directs Taran to take Hen Wen to safety; unfortunately, Taran’s foolish daydreaming causes Hen Wen to be captured by Gwythaints, the Horned King’s dragon-like creatures.

In the land of Prydain, Taran, a teenage boy and assistant pig-keeper on the small farm of Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the Enchanter, dreams of becoming a famous warrior. Dallben directs Taran to take Hen Wen to safety; unfortunately, Taran’s foolish daydreaming causes Hen Wen to be captured by Gwythaints, the Horned King’s dragon-like creatures.

In Notre Dame’s cathedral, Quasimodo, a bellringer with a hunchback, falls in love with Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy dancer. However, Esmeralda loves a handsome soldier while also catching the eye of the archdeacon and a poor street poet. When a mob accuses her of witchcraft, Quasimodo must save her and find sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

A joint British-American plot is devised to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31, NATO code name Firefox) which is capable of Mach 6 (hypersonic flight), is invisible to radar, and carries weapons controlled by thought. It is only through the dissidents that Gant remains one step ahead of the KGB and reaches the air base at Bilyarsk, where the Firefox prototype is under heavy guard.