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The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues, beginning six months after the unexpected death of Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor, in a car accident. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals that are almost Victorian in their solemnity. Nonetheless, life goes on at Downton Abbey and the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it.
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All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recuited to spy for Russia. They take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 510 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Creator Julian Fellowes brings the top PBS drama of all time to its climactic sixth and final chapter. The fates of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, are discovered as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world.
8) Spencer
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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A fictionalized account of Princess Diana's decision to end her marriage to Prince Charles, and separate from the royal family.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Never afraid to question the establishment, despite threats to his future and to his loved ones that faced him in the last series, Judge John Deed has more than enough to contend with before he even arrives at court. His daughter, willful Charlie, has decided to follow in her father's footsteps and embark on a legal career of her own; while close confidante Jo Mills is struggling to balance her home and work responsibilities with caring for a foster...
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (ca. 510 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Creator Julian Fellowes brings the top PBS drama of all time to its climactic sixth and final chapter. The fates of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, are discovered as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deed must deal with corruption within the jury, the suspected murder of a barrister, and a case connected to a lucrative government deal with a foreign country during which finalizing the contract seems to some more important than seeing justice is done. Subsequent episodes raise other important questions of justice: a man with the mental age of 13 on trial for murder; the uncovering of a massive mortgage fraud perpetrated by lawyers with the connivance...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gavin and Stacey speak every day on the phone at work, and yet they've never met... until now. Gavin is an ordinary boy from England. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Wales. When Gavin and Stacey finally meet, the peculiar personalities of their families and friends guarantee that there will be no such thing as 'ordinary' ever again.
14) Criminal justice
Series
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 285 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a one-night stand, Ben Coulter wakes up with a hangover, and blood on his hands. Lying beside him, fatally stabbed, is the body of a woman. A nightmare begins that changes Ben's life forever, as damning evidence emerges to incriminate him in a murder that he has no recollection of committing. While in prison awaiting his trial, Ben must endure terrifying forms of 'justice' from hardcore inmates. Will he survive prison long enough to make it...
16) The level
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin, who leads a double life. Her high-flying police career is at odds with an attachment to shady businessman and drug trafficker Frank Le Saux, who acts as a father figure to her. Having kept him off the police's radar for years, Nancy finds her secret at risk of exposure when Frank is murdered in Brighton and she's placed in the middle of the investigation, with a killer stalking her.
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During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
19) MI-5: Volume 6
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 586 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having survived the bombing of the Thames Barrier, Adam and Ros recover to find London facing an even greater threat. While attempting to thwart an attack that could jeopardize a historic peace accord, the team unwittingly unleashes a deadly virus.
20) Press
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 348 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the world of newspapers in London, it's past riven by hacking scandals, it's present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, it's future uncertain, this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas that journalists and editors face each day.
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