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1) Pygmalion
Author
Language
English
Description
In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training, and no one will discern her true roots. The professor and the flower girl grown close, but after her successful debut she rejects the professor and his overbearing ways for a poor gentleman.
The most famous adaptation of the play is the 1964
...Pub. Date
2015
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (approximately 8 hours, 21 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector Edmund Reid travels deep into the seedy criminal London underworld hell-bent on taking back the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. But Reid isn't fighting this battle alone. He's joined by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, a hard man who prefers to let his fists do the talking, Captain Homer Jackson, a brash American with a voracious appetite for vice, and Long Susan, a madam with shady secrets.
5) Closer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Grove Press edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winter of 1899--the end of the Victorian Era. As the bitter cold descends upon Whitechapel, our heroes find themselves on the edge of peril -- a serial killer with subhuman desires and a superhuman ability to escape arrest is on the loose. Inspector Edmund Reid, Captain Homer Jackson, and Long Susan are living as fugitives, on the run from Assistant Commissioner Augustus Dove as the trio seeks to bring him and his cannibalistic brother Nathaniel to...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
9) Meantime
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young, unemployed Londoner begins a friendship with a skinhead, much to his family's dismay.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (approximately 7 hours, 30 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three years have passed since the Leman Street locomotive disaster, when DI Edmund Reid is forced to return to Whitechapel to help clear his former associate's name. Once again Reid finds himself, along with DS Drake, plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to overtake London's East End on the eve of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebration.
12) The Winslow boy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A barrister defends a 14-year-old naval cadet accused of stealing a postal money-order.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Beverly Hills, Calif. :
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rash of murders causes a family to be suspicious of their tenant, a man who seems fascinated with their daughter.
14) Sliding doors
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless, with no motive, no evidence, and no hope of catching this barbaric killer. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler, a novice in the business of murder, an expert in the politics of policing and three-day courses.
17) Flawless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Quinn is an executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself routinely stifled on the corporate ladder. Hobbs is an equally overlooked nighttime janitor with an intimate knowledge of the security system. Hobbs has a score to settle with the Corporation. Sensing Laura's frustration, Hobbs convinces her to help him pull off an ingenious heist.
18) Berkeley Square
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (8.5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
19) Little Dorrit
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amy Dorrit's gentle spirit has never been dampened by the confining walls of the Marshalsea Prison she's lived in her whole life. Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit, the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam, who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's death -- threads that will intertwine his...
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