Harriet Walter
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in.
2) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a jury convicts James Bentley for the murder of his landlady, even the police superintendent believes they've got the wrong man. Thus, Hercule Poirot begins a search for new evidence. His friend Ariadne Oliver lends a woman's intuition to the investigation.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the Meadowbank School, Miss Bulstrode counts girls from England's finest families among her young charges. And she treats them all as equals, even royalty like Princess Shaista of Ramat, a political refugee. After a vicious murder shocks the students and staff, Hercule Poirot delves into the school's secrets.
Series
Inspector Morse. Set 9 volume no. 3
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chief Inspector Morse matches wits with a dangerous escaped mental patient who is a master of disguise. Morse also has to deal with growing Satanism in Oxfordshire. He is helped in the hunt by his psychiatrist, who appears to be a target.
7) Hard times
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers' mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer, as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Wimsey believes in her innocence, but can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the second of Sayers' mystery series, mystery writer Harriet Vane, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach, she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder, or a political plot.
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers' mystery series unfolds at the all-female Shrewsbury College in Oxford. Upon returning for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious, anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of collegiate property and...
11) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
12) Burial
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small group of Russian soldiers must bring Hitler's discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow.
Series
Anton Chekhov collection volume disc 6
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (258 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Madfame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction....
Author
Description
Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter star in Yasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man, translated by Christopher Hampton. A notorious author shares a train compartment with a long-time reader. But can they connect with each other through a silent tide of self-doubt and second-guessing?