All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Theodore Bikel, ranked

In London, Professor Henry Higgins, a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one’s voice determines a person’s prospects in society. He agrees to a wager that he can make Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl with a thick, unintelligible accent, presentable in high society.

Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. When Charlie warns the Sayers that war has broken out between Germany and Britain, they choose to remain in Kungdu, only to witness German colonial troops burn down the village and herd the villagers away to be forcibly recruited.

Taking place in 1947 Palestine, during the British rule, the movie narrates the story of 12-year-old Proffi, who forms an unexpected friendship with the despised enemy, English Sgt. Dunlop. Despite facing doubts from friends and family, Proffi stands by his newfound bond with the sergeant.

The chronicle of Richard Nixon’s final days while serving as the President of the United States is chronicled in this account. Nixon, a leader marked by paranoia and a tendency to abuse power, is also portrayed as an all too human figure – a bewildered, pitiable person who cannot fully grasp how everything he has worked for in his life can slip away in less than a year.

The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, told through the perspective of B.A.H. Humbug, obviously a word play on Scrooge’s catch phrase, bah humbug. After Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to assist the poor or have Christmas Dinner with his nephew, he is visited by the ghost of his one time business partner and friend, Jacob Marley.

At Bilbo Baggins’s 129th birthday party in Rivendell, his nephew Frodo tells the story of the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. In Mordor, Frodo’s friend and companion Samwise Gamgee bears the Ring in Frodo’s absence as he ventures to rescue Frodo from the Orc fortress of Cirith Ungol. During his journey, Sam is tempted to claim the Ring for himself.