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1) 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.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Though crime is nothing new in Yorkshire, Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood finds her world turned upside down when the man she blames for her daughter's death, Tommy Lee Royce, is released from prison. Meanwhile, a desperate father arranges a kidnapping with a local drug lord to receive his wealthy boss' ransom money. The plan spirals out of control, however, when Tommy becomes involved with the deal and takes things too far.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (184 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (342 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the adventures of the underrated, overlooked, and old-fashioned British police officer, Detective Dangerous Davies.
Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a local solicitor falls to his death, the detectives wonder whether it was suicide or murder. The a neighbor notorious for scams perishes in a truly bizarre manner. Barnaby begins to suspect the strange deaths are linked by an elaborate fraud.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 14 volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When local doctor James Kirkwood and Delyth Mostyn, a recent divorcé, decide get married, their families don't exactly celebrate and people begin to show up dead. When a hit-and-run driver kills Dr. Kirkwood's colleague, Barnaby concludes that the murderer actually had Delyth's fiancé in mind, and someone will stop at nothing to prevent their nuptials.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Britain stands on the brink of WWII, Tom Oakley, a cantankerous old man living a solitary life in a small village becomes the guardian of an 11-year-old evacuee of London. The two develop a bond of friendship that gives them both new hope.
10) Easy virtue
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Whittaker is a young Englishman who falls madly in love with Larita, a sexy, glamorous American woman. The two impulsively decide to get married. He takes her home to meet his family, she arrives like a blast from the future. John's mother takes an instant disliking to Lairta and undermines her every move. But Larita will blow their entrenched British stuffiness right out the window.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Owners of an artisan glassworks, the King family harbors relationships of positively Shakespearian complexity. When the enterprise shatters into pieces and it's accountant winds up stabbed, Barnaby digs into rivalries of business and blood-- while DS Jones explores secret Masonic rites.
13) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 14 volume disc 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the Luxton Deeping Photographic Society's annual exhibition, a "shooting war" breaks out between digital-camera devotees and old-fashioned film fanatics. The situation turns deadly serious after one of the photographers winds up strangled and a trail of evidence seems to implicate Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby himself in the murder.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 16 volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guy Sandys, owner and editor of Midsomer Life magazine, has made a name for himself by publishing unfavorable reviews of local businesses. When his ex-wife's lover is found dead, the detectives are forced to dig into the editor's past, where they find a tangled web of affairs, criminal associations, and blackmail. Things turn personal for Barnaby when Joyce gets involved, placing herself in great danger.
16) The sculptress
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When journalist Rosalind Leigh starts to write a book about a woman found guilty of murdering her mother and sister, she becomes convinced that the woman is hiding something.
17) Cranford
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (291 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation. Is he getting inside information?
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (323 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Martin Ellingham is brilliant, dedicated, and highly efficient. He's also brusque, abrasive, and terrified of blood. Once a successful London surgeon, he's now a GP in the idyllic Cornish fishing village of Portwenn, where he's every bit as eccentric as the villagers he serves.
20) William & Mary
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (559 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.
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