Janet McTeer
1) Tumbleweeds
Series
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A road movie about the unconventional love between a single mother and her wise-beyond-her-years little girl.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (580 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
4) Tideland
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Publisher
Infinity Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (230 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Black candle: Set in the north of England in the 1880s, follow the fortunes of Bridget Mordaunt, a young woman who inherits a factory from her father and wins respect from the workforce as she turns it into a thriving business. But a dark cloud looms on the horizon as Joe, her respected manager, falls foul of an opportunistic aristocrat, Lionel Filmore, and is wrongly accused of murder.
Black velvet gown: A mother and daughter defy English society...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
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
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for....
9) Songcatcher
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
10) As you like it
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...
11) Hannah Arendt
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 15 cm)
Description
A brilliant biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible...
12) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...