British Broadcasting Corporation.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special collector's ed. ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer Lara Croft is off to find Pandora's box and save mankind from destruction that would come if it were opened. Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest...
402) The American
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American
403) Traces: Series 2
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (Approx. 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lab assistant Emma Hedges is now training to be a forensic chemist and is on the cusp of seeing her mother's murder case finally resolved. Daniel is to give evidence against his father. Will Emma and Daniel's relationship withstand the pressure? Will justice be served? Meanwhile, professors Sarah Gordon and Kathy Torrance are investigating a deadly bombing campaign. Homemade devices are going off around Dundee, with critical clues hidden inside the...
Publisher
2 Entertain Video Ltd
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 530 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When convicted child killer Oswald Danes miraculously survives his own execution, the footage holds America transfixed. And then everyone realizes that nobody is dying. People keep aging--they get hurt and sick--but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. It's a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a secret British institution named Torchwood that seems to hold the answers.
406) Station Jim
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man working in a train station befriends a dog that can do amazing tricks. When the Queen of England is set to visit the station, an assassination attempt is put on her. Will the most unlikely of characters save the day?
407) Aida
Publisher
Kultur International Films [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Staged production of Verdi's Aida in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.
408) Cinderella
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed historic performance of Cinderella from 1969 featuring the memorable cast of Anthony Dowell, Antoinette Sibley, Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy English village of Dibley is plunged into an uproar when its new vicar turns out to be a woman. And not just any woman, but the unconventional Geraldine Granger who brings her own earthy spirit and humor to the pulpit.
410) Gumbo
Series
Jazz volume 1
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy English village of Dibley is plunged into an uproar when its new vicar turns out to be a woman. And not just any woman, but the unconventional Geraldine Granger who brings her own earthy spirit and humor to the pulpit.
412) Swan lake
Publisher
Warner Music Vision
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Edition
Widescreen; [English/French menu].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (9 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Matthew Bourne's re-imagining of the Swan Lake tale, with a chorus of male swans, tells the story of an unloved prince, a cold, heartless mother, an unsuitable girlfriend and a flock of menacing and mysterious swans, led by a haunting and sinister figure - the swan of the prince's dreams.
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Begins with the 1947 U.N. decision to partition Palestine and charts the ensuing half-century of enmity, warfare, mediation and negotiations. Includes interviews and news clips of heads of state and other military and intelligence leaders. Episodes on the first disc cover Israel's struggle for statehood, including the victories against Arab armies in 1948 and 1967, and the history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The concluding program...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy English village of Dibley is plunged into an uproar when its new vicar turns out to be a woman. And not just any woman, but the unconventional Geraldine Granger who brings her own earthy spirit and humor to the pulpit.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The handsome stranger: Gerry is fed up with all the "townies" buying weekend cottages in Dibley. Then she meets one particularly charming newcomer. The vicar in white: After presiding over the marriages of hundred of other people, it appears Gerry's big day has finally arrived.
416) Sense & sensibility
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the lives and loves of the two Dashwood sisters, the discreet and wise Elinor, and the reckless, passionate Marianne, who pursue love and happiness around the pillars of genteel 19th century English society.
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,...
419) Madame Butterfly
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Deluxe widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly. He marries her but has no intention of ever taking her home to America. A film of Puccini's opera.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 719 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.