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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
3) Skinwalkers
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Officer Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn investigate a series of random murders that also seem to suggest the involvement of skinwalkers, spirits of the dead that seek revenge on the living.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
9) The magician
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potentially massive threat to the stability of British society - counterfeit money. Unchecked, the tide of fake money could have destabilized the economy.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Steve McTear, a top fencer on the verge of making the British World Championship team, finds himself on the run from both the police and East End gangsters. With nowhere to go, he lands a job at a girls' school in the Scottish Highlands.
11) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
12) Carry me home
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Set on a farm in upstate New York after World War II, a young girl grows from the traumatic experiences following her father's death.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
16) Huckleberry Finn
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel, Huckleberry Finn in which the young Huckleberry flees his home and assists a runaway slave escape up the Mississippi River on a raft.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In a small village in the south of England, a handsome working man falls in love with the newly arrived schoolteacher from a wealthy family who happens to be the village beauty. Other richer men want to win her hand as well. Who will win her hand?
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Annie Woodrow is the wife of a pop music inpresario who stands accused of killing her best friend. All the evidence points to Annie as the killer, but DCI Barnaby begins to doubt her guilt. With friend and clinical psychologist Pru Plunkett feeding his suspicions, Barnaby sets out to find the truth.
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