Michael Kitchen
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three episodes from the television series about D.C.I. Ross Tanner who is desperate to conceal the fact that he's losing his vision. In "Hide and Seek", Tanner is working on the two-year-old murder of a famous violinist in which the only one who may know who killed her is the victim's nine-year-old son. In "Parasomnia", Tanner is investigating a murder in which the murderer claims to have been sleepwalking. In Kingdom of the blind, Tanner is caught...
3) The guilty
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London attorney Steven Vey has a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, and money to burn. To top it off, he's about to be named Britain's youngest-ever judge. But one night a celebration with his pretty secretary, Nicky, goes too far. He calls it a drunken indiscretion; she calls it rape. Meanwhile, Birmingham punk Eddy Doyle is fresh out of prison with no prospects. After learning that the stuffy vicar who raised him isn't his real dad, Eddie goes...
5) Mobile
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police are baffled as cell phone users are being shot in the middle of their conversations and mobile phone towers are being blown-up throughout England. This four-part thriller reveals a terrorist plot with a ruthless millionaire in the middle of it.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the gripping third series that airs on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe. DVD includes behind the scenes documentary and cast reflections.
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
2006, c1974
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of the fall of the three great ruling houses of Europe in the latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, the Hapzburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Romanovs of Russia, and the Hohenzollerns of Germany.
9) Alibi
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When neurotic Greg is implicated in his business partner's death, witness Marcey helps him dispose of the corpse, but quickly begins to regret it.
10) Enchanted April
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
12) Freud
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-part BBC mini-series, filmed in Austria, New York and London. This series examines Freud's complex life, his groundbreaking work and his relationship with his patients. Special features include a newly filmed interview with David Suchet and a gallery of Suchet's personal Freud archive including production photos, press clippings, etc.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Invasion: As the first American GIs arrive to build an airbase near Hastings, the murder of a barmaid further strains already-tense relations between the locals and the Yanks.
Bad blood: A top-secret experiment in biological warfare goes horribly wrong, complicating a murder investigation and threatening the life of Foyle's faithful driver, Sam.
Bleak midwinter: The death of a young munitions worker and the murder of Paul Milner's wife seem linked,...
18) GoldenEye
Formats
Description
"When an MI6 agent ... turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on the intrepid spy!"--Container insert.
19) The hanging gale
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.