Pam Ferris
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 294 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the bestselling children's book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. the story follows siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby, and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to go on an adventure through whirling snowstorms, oozing mud, and dark forests in search of bears. But when Rosie and Rufus become separated from the rest of the family, it looks like bear hunting might not be quite as fun after all.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 21 volume disc 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate a string of murders that imitate murder cases from the past.
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions. A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry James' chilling ghost tale about a governess hired by a charming bachelor to look after two young children in a grand mansion in rural England where sinister events place their lives in jeopardy.
Publisher
Granada
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 17 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the 1950's and Sidney "Pop" Larkin has managed to avoid paying taxes for practically his entire working life. He embarks on a number of ill-fated entrepreneurial ventures and his daughter causes more than one head to turn with her flirtatious ways. But the flamboyant Larkins are thoroughly devoted to each other in good times and bad.
16) Tolkien
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire...
17) Nativity!
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his arch rival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy.
Publisher
Tatfilm GmbH
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.