Derek Jacobi
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Series
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"Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this stunning sequel. Fifteen years after hte events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At the crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approx. 336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their 70s, fall for each other all over again when they are reunited on the internet after nearly 60 years. Their relationship is a celebratory tale of the power of love at any age. But this is also a story about family, and with family comes baggage. Celia's respectable, head teacher daughter Caroline is juggling bringing up two boys and dealing with her husband's infidelity.
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To save her family from a farmer’s plow, Mrs. Brisby, a mild-mannered mouse, has a plan to move her house! However, Mrs. Brisby will need an engineering miracle to hoist her home, and for that she must face a wicked rat, fend off a vicious cat and claim a magic amulet! But when Mrs. Brisby discovers the astounding secret of NIMH...it will change her life forever! Starring the voices of Dom DeLuise, John Carradine and Peter Strauss, “THE SECRET...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 347 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The intricate dance of life continues in this heartwarming drama series about two long-lost childhood sweethearts and the 60 years of baggage they bring to their better-late-than-never marriage. How will newlyweds Alan and navigate a startling revelation about Alan's past? And how will their adult daughters, Gillian and Caroline, deal with happiness and tragedy in their even more complicated lives?
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
These four lavish productions are all-new adaptations of Christie classics. The murder at the vicarage: When the vicar in Miss Marple's village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a favor, he does not realize that his words will come back to haunt him. The body in the library: Dolly Bantry enlists Miss Marple's help after she and her husband find the body of a mystery woman in their library....
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Faced with the need to move her family from a farmer's field while her Timothy is seriously ill, a widowed mouse seeks help from a group of rats whose unwilling participation in experiments at a place called NIMH has made them wise and long lived.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (6 hr., 48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The saga of the Strauss family is an epic story spanning more than 85 years. From father Johann Strauss to his eldest son Schanni, it was a tradition not only of music, but of the wealth, fame and jealousies common to popular musicians throughout the ages.
10) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
11) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
13) Gladiator
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Description
The war against the Germans won, Emperor Aurelius chooses the victorious General Maximus as his successor to the Roman empire. Commodus, Aurelius' heir, is jealous of this and Maximus eventually ends up enslaved to the gladiatorial arenas.
14) Cadfael: Set 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A morbid taste for bones: When a young monk claims to see visions of St. Winifred, Cadfael and a party from Shrewsbury Abbey trek to Wales to excavate her holy relics and are met with much hostility.
The raven in the foregate: Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest earns the scorn of all his parishioners. After refusing to baptise the illegitimate baby of a local woman, the priest is found dead in the river.
The rose rent: A beautiful and wealthy...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary...
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Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Description
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, are transported to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.