British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
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.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ab Fab creators Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star in this highlights program of the best skits and spoofs from their fourth season. Includes send-ups of Alien, Misery, Silence of the lambs, stuffy costume dramas, and of course the royals.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Never afraid to question the establishment, despite threats to his future and to his loved ones that faced him in the last series, Judge John Deed has more than enough to contend with before he even arrives at court. His daughter, willful Charlie, has decided to follow in her father's footsteps and embark on a legal career of her own; while close confidante Jo Mills is struggling to balance her home and work responsibilities with caring for a foster...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gently evil: Called to a crime scene at a working-class boarding house, Gently and Bacchus find a woman horribly beaten to death, her eyes covered discreetly with a handkerchief. The victim also carried her daughter's birth certificate, with the name of the child's father crossed out and "satan" penciled in. Following this lead, Gently and Bacchus probe the twisted secrets of a family that seems to harbor pure evil.
Peace & love: When nuclear submarines...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Can Judge John Deed's unrelenting idealism lead to ultimate justice? Or is his rebellious nature doing more harm than good? In two nail-biting double episodes, the eponymous judge is sent to the Hague as the British representative at the International Criminal Court, where he must try a young soldier for war crimes in Iraq. Instead he uncovers nefarious reasons for bringing him to trial.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deed must deal with corruption within the jury, the suspected murder of a barrister, and a case connected to a lucrative government deal with a foreign country during which finalizing the contract seems to some more important than seeing justice is done. Subsequent episodes raise other important questions of justice: a man with the mental age of 13 on trial for murder; the uncovering of a massive mortgage fraud perpetrated by lawyers with the connivance...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (645 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, [the program] takes you to places you've never been to experience sights and sounds never before captured on film. Prepare to be overwhelmed by the beauty and majesty of 'Planet Earth'.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
10) The buccaneers
Publisher
diributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (302 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four young American girls journey from America to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
11) MI-5: Volume 1
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The elite team from the clandestine security service, MI-5, tackles organized crime, terrorist activities, anarchists, and more.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 585 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Molly MacDonald comes to terms with becoming a widow, Lexie and the estate employees must come to terms with her new position in life as fiance? of the laird, Archie. Includes all ten episodes from the fourth series.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (451 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Never afraid to question the establishment - despite threats to his future and to his loved ones - Judge John Deed returns for a fourth season on the bench. Menace and intimidation fill Deed's court when three young men are charged with shooting a gang member and a main witness in the case is killed in a hit and run. When Deed has an affair with a plaintiff, his fellow judges turn against him and exile him to Warwick.
Publisher
distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 443 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Judge John Deed is on a mission for justice and he's prepared to break the rules to deliver it. In his red robes and wig, Deed might look like every other High Court judge, but his passionate belief in justice sets him apart from his peers. To the police force, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Lord Chancellor's Department and even many of his colleagues, Deed is a man more concerned with justice than the letter of the law.
16) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prince Hamlet plots revenge after he discovers his uncle murdered his father, the king. This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. Meanwhile, Titus Pullo attempts to pull his...
18) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5hrs. 22min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of nineteenth-century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.