Matthew Macfadyen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The re-telling of the valiant story of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite many separate kingdoms into what would become England. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people reclaimed their land from the invading Vikings and built a place they call home.
3) Quiz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning 1 million.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (531 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 237 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Daniel attends a family reunion with his parents, he discovers a world he hardly knew existed. Seduced by the allure of his new world, Daniel adopts the role of go-between for his glamorous Aunt Alice and his cousins Rebecca and Charles.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
7) Howards End
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
9) Frost/Nixon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
10) Little Dorrit
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) The assistant
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (651 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (604 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (color illustrations ; 19 x 12 cm)
Description
Beginning where the first season dramatically left off, Season Two follows the Roys, media tycoon Logan and his four grown children, as they struggle to retain control of their empire amidst internal and external threats.
"In Season 2, Kendall deals with fallout from his hostile-takeover attempt, Shiv is poised to enter the upper echelons of the company, Roman reacquaints himself with the business from the bottom up, and Connor launches an unlikely...
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. England at the turn of the 12th century was such a time. King Richard the Lionheart, bankrupt of wealth and glory, is plundering his way back to England after ten years on his crusade. In his army is an archer named Robin Longstride. This is the story of his return home where, for defending the weak against the strong, he will be condemned to live...
17) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple during a chance encounter on a train. However, when Miss Pinkerton...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (545 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.