Alun Armstrong
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Julie Walters and Robert Lindsay star in a story of lust, loot and a show to set pulses racing. Maureen Hardcastle is furious when husband Jimmy brings in strippers to boost their pub takings, but on the opening night, she is reunited with a long lost school friend, who turns out to be the star act, and her boyfriend manager, Billy Bowmans. When Maureen unexpectedly inherits a fortune she decides to turn the tables on the men but Billy has no intention...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (467 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Tricks follows a team of semi-retired and somewhat curmudgeonly detectives as they reinvestigate cold cases. The fifth season returns with more sharp writing, dry humor, and engrossing mysteries. Guest stars include Claire Bloom, James Fox, David Troughton, and Ronald Pickup. Includes bonus behind-the-scenes featurette.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (589 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 470 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads a team of aging detectives pulled out of retirement for a job they're uniquely qualified to do: tackle cold cases--some of them decades old.
6) Golden years
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After five decades of law-abiding, tax-paying citizenship, retired couple Martha and Arthur are forced into an unexpected life of crime in this star-studded comedy heist caper.
7) Dark angel
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children. Based on a true story, she was eventually caught and hung for her crimes in 1873.
Publisher
Twenty Twenty Television
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continuing to fight for prisoners' rights, Garrow defends a man who fired a pistol at King George III, weavers accused of industrial sabotage, and a man falsely charged with murder. Meanwhile, Garrow's own circumstances are dire. Now living with Lady Sarah, he is impoverished and ostracized by his peers, and his mentor, Southouse, is seriously ill.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full-frame version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8-year-old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected. The mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 437 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due...
12) Bleak House
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8-year-old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, driven film director determines to turn his new film project in Africa into a grand personal adventure hunting a wild elephant, in a story loosely based on John Huston's filming of "The African Queen."
Publisher
Twenty Twenty Television
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the 'innocent until proven guilty' theory to London's Old Bailey. Includes four episodes.
17) Possum
Author
Language
English
Description
A disgraced children's puppeteer must confront his sinister stepfather and a hideous puppet he keeps hidden in a brown leather bag in order to escape the dark horrors of his past.
18) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (8 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[The Mummy] In 1923 deep in the Egyptian desert, adventurer Rick and Egyptologist Evelyn free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, the Egyptian high priest mummified alive and cursed as punishment for killing Pharaoh Seti and sleeping with his mistress, awakes to wreak his final vengeance on the world.
[The Mummy returns] This supernatural sequel finds Rick and his now-wife Evelyn trying to protect their son from various nasty undead...