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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the wealthy Lady Dorland, die first? Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
42) Persuasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about lost and found love. Anne is persuaded to reject a proposition of marriage from the man she loves due to his lack of fortune. Years later she is made the offer again.
43) Hard times
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the company that brought Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown, comes an adaptation that faithfully realizes Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling....
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. Travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings; all in less than 200 years.
45) 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.
46) The judge
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The complete 3 hour 2-part TV miniseries. Chris Noth plays a struggling, honest attorney with a small law firm. Trying to build himself and his firm, he works hard and ends up confronting The Judge (Edward James Olmos) in a trial trying to defend an honest person. There is much corruption in both city offices and in the police department. The judge is set up, in order to try to get him removed from the bench and disbarred. Finding no one who will...
48) Flesh and bone
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (482 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young ballerina with a troubled past joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Woman in White tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It looks like a tragic accident when Victor Dean falls down the spiral staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. His replacement (Wimsey in disguise) sets out to find the truth which leads him to a drug ring operating through someone at the agency.
51) Invasion: Earth
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (271 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an air force pilot shoots down a mysterious UFO, the military is confronted with a brutal, terrifying alien force.
52) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s. After returning from the Civil War, two men spark a feud between their families that leads to battles and causes the families and their neighbors to seek vengeance against each other.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines how the story of humanity is linked to the story of the universe. Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe....
56) Cold call
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After single mother June receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with the help of an old flame.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (663 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he also finds and loses love with several women.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa, eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on Earth? Take a global journey through the past, following the ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how humans got where they are.
59) Jude the obscure
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006], c1971
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.
60) Blackbeard
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation which is now legend. The true story of pirate Edward Teach, the man who terrorized the seas.
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