Eileen Atkins
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
2) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
4) Affairs of the heart: Series twoclassic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 302 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott, penniless orphans, find employment and romance in the world of London fashion design during the roaring twenties. Changing times, cutthroat competition, and romance flavor the dramatic conclusion. As the Roaring Twenties close, the market for haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future?
Publisher
Burbank, CA
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new 'downstairs' family to help run the elegance and finery of the...
9) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (384 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Formats
Description
The saga of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal and lively servants. Real-life events from 1903-1930 are incorporated into the stories of the Bellamy household. All 68 episodes on 20 discs. Includes 5-part documentary The Making of Upstairs, Downstairs; 24 episode commentaries; 25th anniversary retrospective Upstairs, Downstairs Remembered; interviews with the stars, composer, and editor; alternate pilot episode; and more.
14) Smiley's people
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened.
15) Cold Mountain
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
16) Equus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.
17) Vanity Fair
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 415 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
19) Cranford
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (291 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...