Ruth Wilson
Language
English
Formats
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
2) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane finds herself in love with an unlikely master of the house she is the governess of. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
3) Mrs. Wilson
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...
5) Small island
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe, the London suburb of Croydon.
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (559 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (703 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect and shifting between the perspectives of Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole. The story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky and set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's, Lucille Angellier awaits news from her prisoner of war husband. As Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' homes, Lucile's life is turned upside down--further complicated by the arrival of refined German officer, Bruno.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three years after Noah's shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart, he attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole and Luisa in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future.
11) Luther: 3
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this new mini-series, a twisted fetishist is targeting young women in London. As Luther is called to another case, will the killer escape his grips? Luther faces an even bigger threat as members of his own team will stop at nothing to bring him down. And as a vigilante killer takes justice into his own hands, Luther questions his own sense of morality. Can he continue to walk the thin line between right and wrong, or has he finally met his match?...
12) Luther
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (348 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A self-destructive near-genius, Luther might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts. Luther follows his own moral code as much as the rules of criminal law. But he quickly becomes locked in a lethal battle of wits with Alicea, a beautiful, highly intelligent mass murderer, and his decision-making process becomes increasingly murky. Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium, which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lyra, the young protagonist of the story, lives in Jordan College, Oxford. Placed there at the request of her Uncle, Lord Asriel, she lives a sheltered life amongst the scholars and college staff while under the watchful protection of The Master and Librarian Scholar Charles. When the glamorous and mesmeric Mrs. Coulter enters Lyra₂s life, she embarks upon a dangerous journey of discovery from Oxford to London. Here she meets Father MacPhail, Lord...
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc, a CBS Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 9 hours, 50 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What are you holding on to? Long past the secrets that brought them together and tore their lives apart, Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole are on separate journeys with the promise of new relationships and a fresh start. But as the past continues to surface, they question what they re holding on to as their lives keep crashing back into one another."--provided by publisher.
16) Locke
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
17) The prisoner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (276 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reinterpretation of the British 1960s cult hit series. A man, known as Six, finds himself inexplicably trapped in the Village with no memory of how he arrived. As he explores his environment, he discovers that his fellow inhabitants are identified by number instead of name, have no memory of any prior existence, and are under constant surveillance. Six is driven by the need to discover the truth behind The Village, the reason for his being there,...
18) Dark river
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, Alice returns to her home village for the first time in fifteen years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
19) Locke
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
20) Luther: 5
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 227 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, John Luther (Idris Elba) once again confronts the depths of human depravity. As a series of monstrous killings becomes more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku) are confounded by a tangle of misdirection that seems to protect an unspeakable horror. But as the case brings him closer than ever to the nature of true evil, a reluctant Luther faces the...