British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet handsome Archie MacDonald, a reluctant young Scottish laird torn between his trendy London life and the call of his wild Highland ancestry. Tricked into returning to Scotland by his eccentric father and dotty mother, Archie discovers he is now the Laird of the decaying family estate, Glenbogle.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the season begins, the fallout from Russia's thwarted attack on London finds the team in a race against time to rescue Harry, who has been kidnapped by rogue Russian agents. But as they dig deeper into his disappearance, they find a trail that leads to Iraq, and a conspiracy that involves the CIA, MI-6 and some missing weapons-grade uranium. Special features included.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken her medication); Delilah Stagg of the loose false teeth...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Story Of Ireland is a five-part landmark history of Ireland presented by Fergal Keane (Wild Africa, Great Railway Journeys). Ireland is living through a significant period in its cycle of history, since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the island has been at peace. This is unprecedented in the history of modern Ireland and so seems like a perfect time to reflect on the Irish as a people and as a modern European nation.
5) Life story
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The makers of the Emmy Award-winning series Life take viewers deeper than ever into the perilous and exhilarating drama humans share with every other animal on the planet, from the circumstances of birth and the struggle to reach adulthood, secure a home and find a mate, to the unpredictable challenges thrust on all creatures by the environment, enemies and even families.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Set in a small West Country town, Jennifer Saunders' enchanting comedy follows the continuing exploits of ex-practice nurse Sal Vine and the memorable, and not a little eccentric, members of the local Guild"--Container.
7) Luther: 4
Publisher
BBC Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pitted against his most chilling adversary yet, Luther is haunted by past ghosts and hellbent on revenge as the Serious Crime Unit faces its most challenging psychological duel to date. There is no question he will come close to the edge, but will he finally go over?
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall.
9) Thirteen
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirteen years after her abduction, 26-year-old Ivy Moxam flees the cellar that has held her captive for half her life. But escape is just the beginning of Ivy's story. Just as she's picking up the pieces of the life she was forced to leave behind, a startling discovery leaves everyone scrambling: her former captor has found his next victim. Forced to confront the truth of what happened in that cellar, Ivy's story leaves the detectives with one question:...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
JS and MN tells the alternative history of 19th-century England, where magic once existed and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange, two duelling magicians who pit their skills against the might of Napoleon, the mythical Raven King and death itself.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the wealthy Lady Dorland, die first? Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
Formats
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Song of Lunch is based on Christopher Reid's narrative poem following the story of an unnamed book editor who is meeting his former love 15 years after their break-up for a nostalgic lunch at the Soho restaurant they used to frequent. The woman is now living a glamorous life in Paris, married to a world-renowned writer. The unnamed editor has failed in his writing career, detests his mundane publishing job and regrets the end of their love affair....
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (485 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Edmund Reid travels deep into the seedy criminal London underworld hell-bent on taking back the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. But Reid isn't fighting this battle alone. He's joined by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, a hard man who prefers to let his fists do the talking, Captain Homer Jackson, a brash American with a voracious appetite for vice, and Long Susan, a madam with shady secrets.
16) A perfect planet
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Planet Earth is perfect. Everything about our world - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's natural forces perfectly nurture life. A global weather system circulates and distributes fresh water to all corners of the globe, marine currents deliver nutrients to even the deepest reaches of the ocean, sunlight warms and energizes everything it touches, and powerful volcanoes...
17) Vera: Set 9
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (357 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her trusted team chase ruthless killers and unravel complex mysteries, uncovering secrets that sometimes stray a little too close to home, set in rural Northumberland.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she's not the only person looking for her.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A massive survey of science from flint tools to the theory of relativity. It was made as a science counterpart to Sir Kenneth Clark's series Civilisation, with Jacob Bronowski presenting his own view of science and mankind.