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42) Coyote waits
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
43) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
45) Sharpe's enemy
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
46) Sharpe's honour
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe must disguise himself as a Spanish rebel and slip behind enemy lines to search for the one person who can clear him of allegations of deceit and dishonour.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
49) Sharpe's battle
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe is given the task of preparing the hitherto purely ceremonial Royal Irish Company for real battle. The commander's ambitious wife and false rumors of a massacre in Ireland complicate the job.
50) Any human heart
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of Logan Mountstuart, including his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.
51) Sharpe's gold
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode Sharpe becomes involved in the partisan gun trade while searching for hidden Aztec gold.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The story of Soames Forsyte, a solicitor and the wealthy head of a middle-class family in London during the nineteenth century.
Soames Forsyte is a successful London solicitor and wealthy scion of a respectable upper-middle-class Victorian family. Soames marries the beautiful Irene--all he needs to complete his golden existence--but finds that he can never truly possess her. Based on the first two of John Galsworthy's nine books about the Forsytes,...
56) Oliver Twist
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After being apprenticed to a miserly undertaker, Oliver runs away, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves who are determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite. Sauce for the goose: After a visitor dies while touring...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
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