Eileen Atkins
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spirited young American girl goes to London in search of her long-lost father. When she finds him, she sets out to prove that love can conquer all, but finds that her unique, impulsive style threatens the relationship she has waited for all her life.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full and widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.
6) Evening
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 599 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 415 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
9) Wit
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
10) Paddington 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (384 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him.
12) Cold Mountain
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver. (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
13) Vanity fair
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new 'downstairs' family to help run the elegance and finery of the...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
16) Cranford
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (291 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
18) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William, and his niece, Erminia, Miss Matty becomes concerned about...