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Series
Inspector Morse. Set 7 volume no. 2
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2002, c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 570 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Commander Clare Blake is the highest-ranking female officer in new Scotland Yard. Letting her personal life bleed into her career, she gets too close to her cases, making her vulnerable to those who wish to take her down. Special features included.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (388 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows two women working as spies for England in Nazi-occupied France. Liz is an Englishwoman who is recruited by a British intelligence agency during the height of World War II. Since the Armed Forces have been reduced by German counter-intelligence activities, it has become imperative to gather civilian volunteers to work with the resistance forces in occupied France. She and other agents will be trained and deployed by Col. James Cadogan who needs...
4) Demob
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war,' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime London and long for the stage lights once more.
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (411 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptations of short stories by A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates. Set against the English countryside during the post-World War I period. Reveals the timeless and constant qualities of the British landscape and its people.
6) South Riding
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress, she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed -...
7) The shiralee
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fiercely independent man reluctantly takes his daughter on the road with him to the Australian outback while he looks for work.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 487 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dying day: Antony Skipling becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill him after he listens to a cassette left behind by a stranger. The limbo connection: Mark Omney is forced into desperate actions after his wife mysteriously disappears. Rachel in danger: Ten-year-old Rachel travels from Scotland to London to visit her father but she does not know that the man who meets her is not who he seems. The victim: When his daughter is kidnapped, Vincent...
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.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, at a family gathering, thrice-married baronet Freddy Butler keels over dead, leaving an estate worth killing for.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Shockblast: Rampage": With the Autobots in pursuit, Shockblast makes contact with Megatron and is able to breach the Energon Grid. "Open fire!": Megatron and Optimus Prime are set to face off in a final showdown - until Shockblast interferes. "Ripped-up space": In an attempt to regain control of Unicron, Megatron accidentally causes an explosion. "Protection": On the other side of the rip, the Autobots must now defend a whole new set of planets.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk, and was never seen again. For newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett, the case launched a superstar career. Bennett's obsession with the case turned up enough evidence to hang his suspect even though her body was never found. Filmmaker Catherine Heathcote turns her camera to Bennett and struggles to understand why questions from forty years ago have different...
13) Above suspicion
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On her first day on the job, rookie detective Anna Travis throws up at a crime scene and faints at a postmortem. Does she have what it takes to succeed in what's still mostly a man's world? Above Suspicion (pilot): For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clad in tweed and puffing on a pipe, Detective Inspector Purbright pursues the evildoers of Flaxborough with a doggedness that belies his polite conversation and mild manner. Although the quiet country town appears all gentility, beneath the surface lies a darker world of deception, intrigue, treachery, and infidelity.
17) 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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (492 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this lighthearted British mystery series, DI Henry Crabbe looks forward to retiring and opening his dream restaurant, but his accountant wife is not sure they can afford it and his police boss still wants his help in solving crimes. The former detective turned restaurateur struggles to balance his passion for cooking with his knack for catching criminals. Contains 10 episodes.
20) Porterhouse blue
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge college, this movie aims it's barbs at aristocrats, politicians, and TV reporters as well as academics. From Brian Eastman, the producer of Poirot, Rosemary & Thyme, and Traffik.
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