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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 671 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (533 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This videodisc presents the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40 year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn, the series delves in to Henry's most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (556 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
King Henry VIII: young, sexy and the most powerful man in the world. The throne and the entire world became his at age 19. This television series reveals the early years of the passionate, vibrant and scandalous man who forever changed the course of history. His quests for a legitimate male heir ultimately lead to a separatation from the Catholic church.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene sisterhood asylum because of 'sinful' behavior. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Publisher
IFC Films ; [S.l.]
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1975, 17-year-old Irish-Protestant Alistair Little assassinated the 19-year-old Catholic, Jim Griffin in his Ulster home. The murder was witnessed by Joe, Griffin's 11-year-old brother. Thirty years later, Alistair has been rehabilitated and released from prison, while Joe remains traumatized and bitter. When a television talk show decides to bring them together for a live on-air reconciliation, the two must come face-to-face with their own worlds...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter Clifford struggles to save his parishioners' souls without falling himself ... for the local barkeep, Assumpta Fitzgerald.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (450 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Step back in time to the sleep 1950s English Cotswolds, where Father Brown continues to tend his flock and catch criminals with compassion, intuition, psychology, and wit. Includes all ten episodes from the seventh season.
11) Liam
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A Sikh, a Muslim and an Irish Catholic take stock of their lives in contemporary London in Atul Malhotra’s coming of age romantic comedy drama. The title is an homage to a 70’s Bollywood classic and sets the tone for a unique film marrying the storytelling styles of British Independent cinema with that of the Bollywood narrative as ‘AMAR AKBAR & TONY’ come of age, cause chaos and fall in love in multicultural London.
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.
Author
Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
2016, ©2016
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the three great tragedies he wrote that year--King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific...
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