Derek Jacobi
42) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
43) The Odessa file
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller launches a personal manhunt to track down Roschmann, an investigation that leads him into...
44) Hereafter
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film peers at an intriguing question--is there an afterlife?--through the lens of George, Marie, and Marcus, who are each tortured in different ways by the thought of life after death. George Lonegan is psychic. It was once his career: he was "the man who can speak to the dead," with a high-traffic website, and a popular biography. But he fled that life, unable to cope with the emotional burden of his abilities. Marie Lelay is a French TV presenter...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (467 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two sons Cesare and Juan, and his daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
46) 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.
48) Gladiator
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Description
The war against the Germans won, Emperor Aurelius chooses the victorious General Maximus as his successor to the Roman empire. Commodus, Aurelius' heir, is jealous of this and Maximus eventually ends up enslaved to the gladiatorial arenas.
49) Cadfael: Set 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A morbid taste for bones: When a young monk claims to see visions of St. Winifred, Cadfael and a party from Shrewsbury Abbey trek to Wales to excavate her holy relics and are met with much hostility.
The raven in the foregate: Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest earns the scorn of all his parishioners. After refusing to baptise the illegitimate baby of a local woman, the priest is found dead in the river.
The rose rent: A beautiful and wealthy...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Description
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, are transported to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
Author
Formats
Description
Great poetry can indeed outlast stone and the glory of princes, and the English poetic tradition is perhaps the richest in the world. This ebook tells the story of that tradition through its towering figures — Spenser and Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson and Eliot — and through scores of other poets. Clear and accessible, blending criticism with imagination and illustrated with scores of quotations, this...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yet again Lucie loses her pocket handkerchief. In her search she meets Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a kindly, but strangely prickly washerwoman, and Mr. Jeremy Fisher who tells her of his eventful fishing trip. When seven little bunnies go missing Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny find themselves caught up in a terrible battle between Mr. Tod and his unwelcome guest. Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca create havoc in the doll's house while Johnny Town-Mouse entertains...
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Formats
Description
Written in the reign of Vespasian around 70 C.E., Suetonius chronicles the extraordinary careers of many Caesars, including Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Covering the great and awful times of Imperial Rome, the stories provide listeners with keen insights not only into the lives of the emperors, but their reigns as well.