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Justin Chadwick
1) Bleak house
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. An all-star cast comes together for this Dickens classics.
2) Tulip fever
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
5) Bleak House
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
8) Stolen
Author
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced thriller about child trafficking in Britain today. Anthony Carter is a detective inspector battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children smuggled into the UK. When Anthony encounters Rosemary, a terrified 10-year-old girl from West Africa, sold as a house slave, who thought she was coming to England to be educated, he vows to keep her safe from the traffickers, but in doing so, Anthony risks his own and his child's...
