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Publisher
distributed in the US and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Sweet Molly Gibson was living life pleasantly when her widowed father decides that, for the good of his daughter, he must remarry. In comes Claire and Molly's life is turned upside down by the usually well meaning but off-the-mark Claire, who insists on things being done the proper way.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003, c1977
Language
English
Description
The classic Masterpiece Theatre tale of the final years of Britain's hig-spirited "Careless '20s." The story of the beautiful, tempestuous Lydia Aspen captures not only the soul of a vangished age, but the timeless joys and sorrows of young love.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the true story of British agent Sydney Reilly, the world's first superspy. The story begins while he is gathering information that will help the Japanese Navy destroy the Russians in the early 1900's and continues through to his destruction of the Trust while pitted against the leader of Russia himself, Josef Stalin.
7) The jury
Publisher
Goldhil Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy is murdered and his schoolmate is arrested. But was he just arrested because he was Sikh, or is he really the killer? The jury must look through the racism and media attention behind the trial and seek the truth.
8) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
10) Summer's lease
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A family leases a Tuscan villa for vacation and becomes involved in finding the secrets it owner.
11) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A ten-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge.
12) The moonstone
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A priceless jewel disappears sending the women who inherited it, into turmoil. In a twisted plot that unfolds, the solution requires the service of a London detective.
13) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
14) Sword of honour
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A war story and a love story, as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The true story of feminist writer Vita Sackville-West's tortured, public affair with her childhood friend, novelist Violet Keppel. Though Vita and her husband of 50 years, diplomat Harold Nicolson, knowingly cheated on each other, Vita's relationship with Violet was the only one that threatened their marriage.
18) A perfect spy
Publisher
BBC Video ; Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1987, c2006
Language
English
Description
A gripping tale of international intrigue adapted by Arthur Hopcraft, as seen on Masterpiece Theatre.
19) I, Claudius
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Contains three films that follow the life and adventures of Anne Shirley from her arrival on Prince Edward Island at the age of eleven, through her teaching career, her marriage to Gilbert, her work with the Red Cross during World War I, and her return to Green Gables.
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