Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Sir John Gielgud. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Special features: Still gallery; theatrical trailers; documentary: The making of an epic.
Summary:
The year is 1929 and Dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the twenty-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to establish of the "Fourth Shore." Omar Mukhtar: a teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, fights against his oppressors and commits himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime. With Omar Mukhtar as their inspirational leader, the Bedouin troops fight on against the Italian Army.
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