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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
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...
25) Flambards
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 676 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at 'Flambards', a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's.
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!
27) Hemingway
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatized portrait of Ernest Hemingway as revealed through his relationships with each of his four wives.
28) 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.
30) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings...
31) The crown prince
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, begins a fateful affair with the Baroness Mary Vetsera. She, along with the other women who influenced his life, paint the revealing portrait of an empire unable to adapt to modern times.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.
33) 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.
34) 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.
36) 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
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
39) A married man
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful middle-aged barrister feels trapped in both a marriage and a career that no longer feed or fulfill him. He finds himself falling between the bedsheets of a rich and politically connected young woman--a move that sets into motion forces that will shatter his entire world.
40) Amongst women
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 219 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran, a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him.
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