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Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. Travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings; all in less than 200 years.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Woman in White tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
5) Going postal
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Moist von Lipwig is caught for his trickery, he is given the option of becoming the next postmaster or falling down a deep pit.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stories of Viking conquests are the stuff of legends. What is lesser known, however, is the indelible influence these raiders had on the British Isles. Far from conquering and leaving, genetic testing reveals that the Vikings never completely left. This 100 minute documentary follows the progress of Danish Viking King Canute, who built his North Sea Empire across Britain and Scandinavia.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. The nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. Narrated by Liev Schreiber.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ros Pritchard is a charming and honest woman who becomes Prime Minister. She wants to relocate Parliament to make it more accessible to the masses. She introduces "No cars Wednesday" to trackle global warming. At the same time, she juggles the needs and demands of her increasingly frustrated family, which she fears is slipping away from her. With humor and charm, she takes a bold unflinching look at the modern political process, and the toll it can...
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Looks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City which closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic just as preparations to celebrate its 150th birthday were underway, and how the institution is handling urgent demands for social justice in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
11) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
12) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter. This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the...
14) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 470 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion -- a new breed of American soldiers.
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