British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], 2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From Spitfire pilots to teenage evacuees, from Coventry firemen to women and children caught up in the horror of the Blitz, Finest Hour recalls in personal, vivid detail the story of that dark time of 1940 when the destiny of the world hung in balance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the work and personal lives of forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Ryan and her police colleagues as they investigate four murder cases in and around Cambridge, England.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Award-winning actor Martin Shaw stars as the principled detective George Gently in these feature-length mysteries. These powerful dramas unfold against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain during the tumultuous 1960s. Based on the long-running series of books by Alan Hunter.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (420 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May (with their mysterious assistant, The Stig, of course) undertake an American road trip, where they take iconic supercars for a spin through Las Vegas and Los Angeles, race against fighter planes and end with a hair-raising run to the Mexican border. The hosts embark on another epic trip to find the source of the Nile River in three station wagons with a not-so-stellar knowledge of African geography....
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.
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two recently-widowed men come to terms with the deaths of their wives. Reggie Conyngham-Jervis is a wealthy ex-fighter pilot. Roy Southgate is a retired milkman. Both are widowed on the same night. Now this 'odd couple' decide to overlook their differences and move in together. At first the two become friends, until their unlikely relationship is threatened by the arrival of Liz Franks, an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter struggles to save his parishioners' souls without falling himself for the local barkeep, Assumpta. Series Three is the dramatic conclusion of Peter and Assumpta's story.
12) Pandas
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first program observes the Red panda and Giant panda (one of the world's most endangered mammals) in their natural habitat, the bamboo forest of China's "Mountains of the Sleeping Dragon" a national panda reserve. The second program features the San Diego Zoo's challenge to successfully breed and raise a Giant Panda in captivity. Spotlighted is Hua Mei the baby panda and staff from the San Diego Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species....
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2004], c1983
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a wave casually laps onto the Cornwall beach, the Ramsay family and friends settle in for an enjoyable warm Edwardian summer. Presided over by the gentle power and irresistible charisma of their mother, their story evolves with the textures, romance and conflicting dreams that draw a family together and simultaneously pull it apart.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1285 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
British television comedy series about the employees of the Grace Brother's department store in London. Sales clerks in Ladies' Lingerie and Gentlemen's Ready-made departments are often at odds with each other and with store management.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 936 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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.