Rupert Everett
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality, and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy. Based on the life of former Cambridge spy Guy Burgess. Bonus features include commentary by director and cinematographer, as well as original preview trailer.
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
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857. Two-and-a half-centuries of East India Company rule will be reversed by its attempt to crush India₂s Warrior Queen. She is known as one of the most prominent figures within the independence movement of India. The passion to free her province from colonial rule led her to become one of the greatest...
6) Stage beauty
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and make a man of himself.
7) Shrek 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming. The King then hires a cat named Puss-in-Boots, a sword fighting cat and ogre slayer, to kill Shrek.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The Happy Prince tells the untold story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. Though his last days were tragic, Wilde reflects on his life with humor at a distance. As he lies on his deathbed in Paris, memories of his life come to him in flashes. He recounts his fame in London and how he fell from grace in the same city. He looks back at his past lovers including his wife, his affair with a lord, and the love of someone who tried saving him in the...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (557 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In war-torn France, a sinister new battle awaits the Musketeers, as the swashbuckling hit series returns for a thrilling third installment. The royal bodyguards for Louis XllI, Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan are back to combat a dangerous new enemy lurking in the shadows of the city. It's a task that will challenge their allegiances to the crown, throw their personal lives into turmoil and compromise their loyalty to those they love, and to...
11) Shrek the Third
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 32 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. Fiona and...
12) Parade's end
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 300 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour HBO miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the village of Monte Athena in Italy at the turn of the 19th century, necklines are high, parents are rigid, and marriage is seldom a matter of love. Thus, Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander, while her father wants only Demetrius for his son-in-law. Poor Helena burns hot for Demetrius, who avoids her like the plague. Meanwhile, fairy king Oberon is engaged in a battle of wits with his queen, Titania, and...
15) Stardust
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony wall that sits between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
16) Hearts of Fire
Author
Description
Molly McGuire is about to be seduced by the business of rock 'n' roll. She works in a Pennsylvania Turnpike tollbooth by day and sings in a bar by night. However, her life will soon change-drastically-when she meets former rock star Billy Parker in a small town bar. McGuire goes with him to England, where pop superstar James Colt decides to help her with her career. Now, thrust into the high-powered world of rock 'n' roll, Molly discovers the price...
17) Soft Targets
Author
Series
Description
Alexei's life as a minor Russian diplomat in London starts changing wildly one Sunday morning, as he is thrust into a new world of parties, society weddings and baffling women, and he becomes convinced he is the victim of a sinister Foreign Office plot. Stephen Poliakoff's subtle parody of the conventional spy-thriller genre presents a world where conspiracy and betrayal lurk around every corner.
20) Finding Altamira
Author
Description
Antonio Banderas stars as a man whose astonishing discovery threatens to shake religious understanding and tear his family apart.