BBC Films.
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Planet Earth is perfect. It orbits at the perfect distance from the sun; it tilts at just the right angle, and it has a moon just large enough to hold it in place. On top of that, the day-to-day workings of the planet naturally serve to nurture its plants and animals. The five-part series will show how the forces of nature, weather, ocean currents, solar energy, and volcanoes, drive, shape, and support Earth's great diversity of life.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
3) Persuasion
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,...
4) Dancer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. For Philippa Langley, this was the culmination of years of obsessive research despite the doubts of her friends, family, experts, and academics.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1860s, Queen Victoria has mourned her husband, Albert, for four years. In Windsor Castle, away from London and public life, she comes out of her shell by becoming friends with her husband's trusted Highland horseman, John Brown, who refuses to coddle her. An unusual relationship develops between the two - much to the consternation of everyone else.
9) My old lady
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
10) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
11) The souvenir
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
12) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend... enters the picture"--Container.
13) Enchanted April
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
14) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
16) Man up
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?
17) A little chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a classic English story, Cassandra Mortmain chronicles in her diary what happens to her eccentric family when a young American man inherits the local estate. The bittersweet love story that ensues is far more complicated than she ever imagines.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her through war torn London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it. The two don't seem to get along at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres begin to copy the idea and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that...