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41) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Catherine the Great, a young girl who would transform herself from an obscure German Princess into Russia's most powerful regent. Tells her story from her memoirs and personal letters.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (533 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([10] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 50-year marriage of John and Sarah Churchill, the first Churchills to make their mark on British history. John was a handsome and charismatic general who won the battles that shaped the future of England. Sarah was a fiery beauty whose passion and intellect made her a favorite at court and won the undying devotion of her husband. The turbulent history of 17th century England is seen through the eyes of Sarah, and are filtered...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (272 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The youngest, most attractive British sleuths on TV return to crack wise while they crack open six new cases. Detective Sergeant Scribbs and Inspector Ash sparkle as bickering, bantering crime-solvers.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, as Midsomer Barton celebrates Oak Apple Week, the mother of a former festival queen drowns herself. But is it really suicide?
46) Fortysomething
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Slippery is an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 506 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This top-rated BBC show features presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May as they present some serious car journalism along with ambitious challenges that only the brave or the very stupid would dare to undertake. Includes the Botswana special.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 430 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection of the first four episodes of the British television series. Albert Campion with gentle deceptive naivete?, has a passion for the excitement and danger of solving a variety of crimes.
49) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 198 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Peter Mayle's bestseller by the same name, it is the hilarious first year account of the Mayles' adjusting to both the idiosyncracies of the locals and the quaint traditions of this ancient and charming region.
51) Dirty tricks
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part bawdy bedroom farce, part zany crime caper. The story about a charming underachiever on the run from the law. Sure, he's manipulative, money-grubbing, and completely amoral. But is he a murderer? Absolutely not, he insists, despite the pesky corpses piling up. After befriending an accountant, he beds the man's randy wife Karen before a wealthy widow next catches his eye. When Karen meets an untimely demise, a plodding police detective gets involved,...
52) Sharpe's company
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
53) Sharpe's justice
Publisher
Distributed under exclusive license from Carlton International by BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Death on the Nile": A pleasure cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a murder is discovered on board. "Sad Cypress": The solution to a double-murder case appears to be cut and dried, but Poirot's instincts eventually lead him to the real truth. "The Hollow": A weekend retreat where all the guests appear to despise one another finds Poirot hard at work doing what he does best. "Five little pigs": Poirot agrees to help a young woman prove her mother's...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 671 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
59) The glass virgin
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006, ℗1994
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised by a dissolute father and distant mother, Annabella finds herself cast out at age 17, with a loyal childhood friend as her sole protector.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Murder strikes in an Oxfordshire village at 17 Bloxham Drive. Exactly 24 hours later, while a policeman patrols outside, the resident at Number 15 is shot dead by the same gun. Investigators begin to unearth links between the neighbours of the modern estate. The murders also take Morse and Lewis into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for Master of Lonsdale College, over which the smooth and odious retiring master, Sir Clixby Bream, presides."--Container....
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