Bernard Hill
Publisher
ITV Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart must untangle lies that have been covered up for nearly forty years. With her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan they narrow the list to four suspects, each with something to hide. As their deceptions are discovered, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emily Watson stars in this powerful, emotional story about the choice between love and loyalty. As a child, Maggie Tulliver adores her brother Tom and desperately seeks his love and approval, but never receives it. While Tom grows up to be the kind of person the world approves of - dutiful and proud, Maggie becomes the kind of person the world judges harshly. A woman ahead of her time, brimming with intelligence and imagination, Maggie is difficult...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Concludes the King Henry VI chronicles with the War of the Roses. York, as victor at St. Albans, contemptuously forces Henry to give him succession to the crown. The merciless Margaret captures and kills York, only to be captured herself and compelled to watch as the Yorkists slay her son. In a powerful soliloquy, the vile Duke of Gloucester reveals his plans to murder Henry VI.
6) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter both decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the Colpitts women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.
8) True crime
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boozing, skirt-chasing and hard-living reporter realizes a death row prisoner scheduled to die at midnight is innocent. He races against time to save the man and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap.
10) Wimbledon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging male tennis star has one last shot, and two weeks, to win the greatesst tennis tournament and the heart of an upcoming women's tennis star.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (353 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
12) The bounty
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Bligh, a real-life sea captain who, in 1787, steered The Bounty on a 27,000-mile voyage into danger, chaos and madness. After 31 days of battling severe sea squalls and Bligh's ever-increasing cruelty, the weary crew is relieved to finally land on a remote island. But soon their tyrannical captain wants to sail again, and the desperate men turn to first mate Fletcher Christian to help them take the ship back, or die trying.
13) ParaNorman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches, and, worst of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Theatrical versions.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 557 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
The Fellowship of the Ring: Elderly hobbit Bilbo Baggins relinquishes possession of a golden ring possessing magical powers, to his youthful heir, Frodo. Charged with casting the ring into the fires from which it was forged, the young hobbit begins an arduous trek across Middle-earth, accompanied...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron. The Fellowship has divided and now find themselves taking different paths to defeating Sauron and his allies. Their destinies now lie at two towers - Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted wizard Saruman waits and Sauron's fortress at Baraddur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Extended edition.
Physical Desc
6 Blu-rays (approximately 11 hr., 21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 9 DVDs (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.) + 3 folded sheets (6 unnumbered pages : color ; 15 cm x 44 cm, folded to 15 cm x 11 cm)
Language
English
Description
The Fellowship of the Ring: "The Fellowship of the Ring is an epic adventure of good against evil, the power of friendship and individual courage. The saga centers around an unassuming Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who inherits a Ring that would give a dark and powerful lord the power to enslave the world. With a loyal fellowship of elves, dwarves, men and a wizard, Frodo embarks on a heroic quest to destroy the One Ring and pave the way for the emergence...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 6 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scorpion King: Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (424 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ghost ship: A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
Dreamcatcher: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.
Gothika: A depressed psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
7 Blu-rays (765 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Titanic: A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Forrest Gump: The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
No country for old men: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter...