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Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Warsaw, December 1945: the Second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the makers of Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway, Private Investigators comes a light-hearted murder mystery series. It's the 1960s and police forensics are rudimentary. Luckily the residents of Great Slaughter, nestled deep in the British countryside, have a secret weapon. Sister Boniface. This nun might be predisposed to forgive but she's also one hell of an amateur detective. If there's evidence to be found, Boniface will find it, with...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Roman Catholic Church combats a global rise in demonic possessions by reopening schools to train priests to perform exorcisms. Although nuns are forbidden to perform this ritual, a professor recognizes Sister Ann's gifts and agrees to train her. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline, she soon finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl who's possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years earlier.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the '60s and Sister Boniface, with her aptitude for detective work, is an invaluable asset to the Great Slaughter Police Department. Her faith in forensics is only rivaled by her passion for investigation. If there's evidence to be found, Boniface will find it. In this series, the sister forces a murderer into checkmate at a chess tournament, takes a spin at a pirate radio station, confronts a coven of witches, and defends her reputation as the...
8) The nun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.
11) Sister act
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
12) The letters
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
13) Ida
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
14) Marie's story
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manages a school for deaf girls. Based on a true story.
15) Mother Teresa
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Biography of the famous nun who ministered to India's poor.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds,...
17) Black narcissus
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
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