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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (925 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 p.)
Description
A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.
4) Emma
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
Series
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Walker, a U.S. Navy submarine communications officer heads a spy network for the K.G.B. for 17 years, involves his own family in the deception and commits one of the most devastating breaches of American security.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, begins a fateful affair with the Baroness Mary Vetsera. She, along with the other women who influenced his life, paint the revealing portrait of an empire unable to adapt to modern times.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.
9) The circus
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A four-hour mini-series that tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, the film follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country.
10) A married man
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful middle-aged barrister feels trapped in both a marriage and a career that no longer feed or fulfill him. He finds himself falling between the bedsheets of a rich and politically connected young woman--a move that sets into motion forces that will shatter his entire world.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
12) I, Claudius
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 669 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.
14) Flesh and bone
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (482 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young ballerina with a troubled past joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.
15) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
17) Cold call
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After single mother June receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with the help of an old flame.
18) Restless
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 2-part miniseries, based on the bestselling novel by William Boyd. Enter a cloak and dagger world where everyone and everything is under suspicion. Haunted by the death of her brother at the hands of fascist thugs, Russian émigré Eva Delectorskaya is recruited to be a British secret agent by the shadowy figure, Lucas Romer. After proving her merit in the field, she is sent on the most dangerous mission of her life. She must use any means necessary...
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 108 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.
20) Vanity fair
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
2003, c1998
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min. + extras) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A made for television mini-series of Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
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