Julie Walters
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
2) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
3) Wild Rose
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Victorian London, fearless young Sally Lockhart has a mind for numbers and for sleuthing. Recently orphaned Sally is armed with a pearl-handled pistol and her keen mind, uncovers the secrets of her father's death aboard the sunken schooner Lavinia, discovers hidden cursed jewels, and faces England's deadliest villains with bold courage.
5) Brave
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Princess Merida, an archer and self-reliant young woman, makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom. To restore her kingdom, she must rely on her bravery and archery skills.
6) Wah-Wah
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in jeopardy.
8) Mamma mia!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
10) Becoming Jane
Publisher
[Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1795 and the feisty 20-year-old Jane Austen is an emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. As a prospective match for Jane, her parents are eyeing Mr. Wisley. He is the nephew to the very formidable,...
11) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old Billy does not like the brutal boxing lessons at school, so he falls for the girls' ballet lessons instead. His family doesn't approve, so he must train in secret.
Formats
Description
Emboldened by the return of Lord Voldemort, the Death Eaters are wreaking havoc in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Hogwarts, once thought to be a safe haven, may no longer be safe. Harry suspects that new dangers may lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Harry will have to help him uncover a vital key to unlocking Voldemort's defenses, a critical piece...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young wizard Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.
15) Calendar girls
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (1180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone: The magical adventure begins when Harry Potter is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets: Cars fly, trees attack and a mysterious house-elf warns Harry of great danger as he returns for his second year.
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban: Harry must confront soul-sucking Dementors, outsmart a werewolf and learn the truth about the escaped...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction--the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart. Harry's only hope is to find the Horcruxes...
18) Valiente
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Realiza un viaje heroico con Mérida, una talentosa arquera y testaruda hija del Rey Fergus y la Reina Elinor. Decidida a forjar su propio camino en la vida, Mérida desafía una antigua tradiciónque es sagrada para los revoltosos y divertidos lords del reino. Cuando las acciones de Mérida sin querer desatan el caos en el reino, ella debe emplear todas sus habilidades y recursos - incluyendo a sus traviesos e inteligentes hermanos trillizos - para...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban.