British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Social climber Hyacinth bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet', of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
[Disc 1]. Season 1 : episodes 1-6. Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor. [Disc 2]. Season 2 : episodes 7-13. Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his moderninzing methods. [Disc 3]. Season 3 : episodes 14-20 in...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again, the game is on for Sherlock and John in The Empty Hearse; The Sign of Three; and finally, His Last Vow.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003, 1978
Description
On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffers an agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge. He attempts to right the lon-ago wrong and sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction.
Series
Charlie and Lola volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Charlie and Lola share a bedroom, which their mother has asked them to clean up. Charlie agrees. Lola, however, disagrees. In this and six more delightful stories, Charlie and Lola learn to navigate the tricky world of being brother and sister.
6) Earth
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
This film should be lauded for preserving images of the wilds of nature while they were still around to preserve, the tacit message being it is up to humanity to save the planet from the ecological disaster of global warming. It follows three animal "families: on treks spanning continents and oceans: polar bears racing a melting icecap, elephants crossing a parched African plain, and whales swimming thousands of miles from warm-water breeding grounds...
8) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground ...
16) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
17) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
18) Cranford
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
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...
Series
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This Christmas, the Doctor comes face to face with, the Doctor! The first and current Doctors contemplate mortality in the Arctic as the join forces against a common enemy, revisit another last-of-its-kind being, and are ultimately responsible for the life of a WWI soldier.
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