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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 448 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eight all-new episodes of the glamorous, gun-toting lady detective Phryne Fisher. Along with her ever-faithful companion, Dot Williams, Detective Jack Robinson, and Constable Hugh Collins, she is determined to solve any case that comes her way.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (727 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Phryne Fisher is back with more mysteries and fashion. A private detective in 1920s Melbourne, Phryne has a knack for being in the right place at the right time, and she's usually armed with the right weapon. Aided by her maid, Dorothy 'Dot' Williams, Phryne ventures from the city's mansions to its brothels, gaining admirers and enemies along the way.
3) Speedy death
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mrs. Bradley, with her trusty chauffeur George, arrives at Chayning Court for the engagement party of her god-daughter, Eleanor Bing. Later that evening, Eleanor's fiance is found dead in the bath. The police are called in and conclude that his death was nothing more than a tragic accident, but Mrs. Bradley is not satisfied. She launches her own investigation, using her prodigious charm and wit to help the local police catch a killer.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
The worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (603 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The vaultingly ambitious, award-winning German series Babylon Berlin is a dizzyingly thrilling crime drama. Season 3 opens in the fall of 1929 in Berlin, during the tumultuous weeks before Black Friday?s stock market crash. Inspector Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter are assigned to investigate the death of an actress, only to realize that the film industry is as rotten as the underworld.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even literary genius can't seem to cure. The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect....
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 484 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The private detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties, and the early cinema scene to the homes and private parties...
13) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Season Four opens with our intrepid detectives Frankie Drake and Trudy Clarke and their best gal pals, Mary Shaw and Flo Chakowitz, traipsing through the woods on a scavenger hunt that quickly turns deadly. From the wilderness to the world of high society, from an underground cabaret to a candy factory, Frankie and Trudy investigate murders, kidnappings, heists and poisonings. Using her position as a morality officer, Mary is able to snoop through...
17) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 900 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the most opulent hotel in Manchester, England, during the decadent Roaring '20s, The Grand is more than a building. It's a nexus for schemes, scandals, romance and intrigue. For owner John Bannerman, The Grand symbolizes a tradition of luxury and elegance begun by his father. For Marcus Bannerman, it becomes a risky investment and a way to entice his brother's wife into bed. And for the maids and porters employed there, it represents a possible...
19) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray discs (142 min.) : Blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On 1920s Long Island, a dashing enigmatic millionaire becomes obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (759 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European televisions shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city's nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath, a young cop from Cologne, is transferred...
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