Acorn Media (Firm)
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 462 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poirot in the last five episodes of the long running series. Alongside the familiar faces of Hasting, Japp, Miss Lemon, and Ariadne Oliver, Poirot risks everything to solve the most complex case in his career. Includes episodes: The Big-four; Elephants Can Remember; Dead Man's Folly; The Labours of Hercules; and Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tommy Murphy battles criminals on the streets while struggling with both family problems and his own inner demons. When two fellow undercover officers go missing, Murphy resolves to find them.
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Sweden's "beautiful and menacing" arctic region, these "spine-chilling mysteries" (The Wall Street Journal) follow prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson as she investigates crimes in her remote hometown. But as Rebecka buries herself in her work, she can't escape family secrets that start to resurface, the pull of her old life in Stockholm, and her complicated feelings for her colleague, Krister.
Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 870 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
She brings people into the world (midwife), he ushers them out (undertaker), but for this unconventional pair, love is the greatest journey of all. A slightly jaded, but ever hopeful couple looking to finally get it right. From the minute they meet, the demands of family and their unpredictable professions keep things complicated. But they find that, like birth and death, love is a force that won't be denied.
Series
Bit of a do complete collection volume disc 1-2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (301 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the working-class Simcocks and middle-class Rodenhursts through their excruciatingly awkward but uproariously funny interactions at a variety of family functions.
Series
Bit of a do complete collection volume disc 3-4
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (357 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the working-class Simcocks and middle-class Rodenhursts through their excruciatingly awkward but uproariously funny interactions at a variety of family functions.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay Swan in this mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...
492) Harry Wild: Series 2
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry and her young partner in PI work, Fergus, take on cases from missing persons to murders, but when Fergus's mother turns up, years after abandoning him, they have a deeply personal mystery to solve: Can he trust her?
494) The Adams chronicles
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program guide (12 p.)
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 460 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
Harm done: Detective Chief Inspector Wexford faces growing public unrest over the release of a pedophile, an odd series of abductions, and the disappearance of a wealthy couple's daughter from her bedroom.
The fallen curtain: Abducted briefly as a boy,...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 257 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In these stories, lesser-known Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Christie at her best"--Container.
497) Close to the enemy
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, is tasked by the army to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible.
498) Playing Shakespeare
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 456 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (16 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.)
Description
John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.
Publisher
Acorn TV, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5 hrs., 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antique dealer Jean White has embraced her new life and new friends in France. As she begins setting up shop in scenic Sainte Victoire, she continues to be drawn into mysteries, from minor offenses to murder investigations, with Dom by her side.