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Manhunt volume 1
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When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. Despite objections from his superiors, Sutton believes the young woman's murder may be connected to a previous attack and embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. Realistically portraying the ins and outs of police investigations, it tells the story of one detective's...
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.
7) Judy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
8) Living
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
9) Enchantment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. This beautiful and haunting fantasy tells two intertwined love stories of a bittersweet Victorian romance, and a budding courtship unfolding during World War II. Can love transcend time to right the mistakes and sorrows of the past?
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.
12) Sliding doors
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) Prime suspect: 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) An ideal husband
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
17) The party
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, while her husband, Bill, seems preoccupied. Janet's acerbic best friend, April, arrives and others follow, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a night that began with champagne may end with gunplay.
18) Long way down
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four strangers happen to meet on a London rooftop with the intent of committing suicide on New Year's Eve. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
19) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Taking on the biggest challenge of his career, undercover cop Tommy Murphy poses as a hit man to bring down a London crime boss and cop killer. He goes deeper underground than ever, faking an assassination, putting his life at risk, and sabotaging a complex, costly police operation in pursuit of a bigger prize. The story builds through all six episodes, each darker than the last, as Murphy walks the line between deception and detection.
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