BBC Films
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 panels : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
62) Cow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow's life. The film highlights the beauty and challenges cows face, and their great service to us all.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Uncle Sweetheart is an unscrupulous concert promoter who has figured out a way to cash in on the feelings of doubt and uncertainty that plague his nation. Sweetheart has decided he will stage a massive benefit concert, with the monies going to Sweetheart instead of charity. Sweetheart hires television producer Nina Veronica to help promote the show and sell it as a nation-wide event, while Sweetheart pulls a few strings to arrange for the perfect...
65) Becoming Jane
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's mother also...
66) Viceroy's house
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
67) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt...
68) Monsoon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American War. There he meets Lee, his estranged second cousin, Linh, a young Vietnamese student, and arranges an online date that turns into something more with Lewis, an American clothing designer. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he's no longer familiar with, he embarkes on a personal journey...
69) Wilde
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
70) 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.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
72) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
73) Their finest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
74) A united kingdom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
77) Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
78) Mansfield park
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!
79) An education
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic older man can teach her.
80) Bright star
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.