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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.
2) Dream west
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (337 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the adventures of John Charles Fremont, the Army officer who blazed the Oregon Trail, took California away from Mexico, served as its first governor, came within grasp of the presidency and fought for the Union during the Civil War.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 503 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill.)
Description
This definitive ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jonathan Lewis.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the tabloids scream the news that Tory up-and-comer and arbiter of family values Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his devoted wife. As her husband and the party machinery behind him expect, Flora maintains a loyal façade. But in private, her anguish hardens into rage after erotic telephone tapes reveal the extent of her husband's duplicity. Employing strange sexual games and...
Series
Woman of substance volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy Rose is a career criminal newly free after twelve years in prison. Greeted with cold disdain from his wife, Jackie, Jimmy decides to stick to the terms of his parole: hold down a job and stay right in the eyes of the law. But when he finds out that his beloved granddaughter, Ellie, ran away and is now a drug addict, Jimmy will risk everything to bring her home.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Breathtaking in scope and scale, The Bible features powerful performances, exotic locales and dazzling visual effects that breathe spectacular life into the dramatic tales of faith and courage from Genesis through Revelation. This historic television event is sure to entertain and inspire the whole family!
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum...
10) Chernobyl
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Epic five-part miniseries dramatizing the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident, as told through the stories of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
11) 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.
12) Spies of Warsaw
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the wonders of the human brain in an epic series that reveals the ultimate story of why people feel and think the things they do. The ambitious project blends science with innovative visual effects and compelling personal stories, and addresses some big questions.
14) Gunpowder
Publisher
VSN
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the wealthy Lady Dorland, die first? Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It looks like a tragic accident when Victor Dean falls down the spiral staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. His replacement (Wimsey in disguise) sets out to find the truth which leads him to a drug ring operating through someone at the agency.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s. After returning from the Civil War, two men spark a feud between their families that leads to battles and causes the families and their neighbors to seek vengeance against each other.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines how the story of humanity is linked to the story of the universe. Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe....
19) Blackbeard
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation which is now legend. The true story of pirate Edward Teach, the man who terrorized the seas.
20) Any human heart
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving.
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