PBS Distribution (Firm)
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010, ©2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the first season of the television program in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate a variety of murder cases.
Language
English
Formats
Description
All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
Language
English
Description
It is a new century and with it comes the promise of a hopeful future, but the past casts a long shadow over Cornwall. Following the death of Elizabeth, Ross Poldark resolves to put Westminster behind him and spend more time with the people he loves. However, when an old friend emerges with a plea for help, Ross is compelled to challenge the establishment again.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
Widescreen original UK ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (525 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 30 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, prot©bg©b of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sargeant James Hathaway and is trying to prove himself to his dubious new boss while rebuilding his life after the hit-and-run death of his wife.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the dramatic finale of Season three, Oxford's finest are picking up the pieces of their personal and professional lives. DC Endeavour Morse awaits the result of his Sergeant's Exam, while DI Fred Thursday and his wife Win struggle to cope with their children flying the nest. Sam gone to the Army and the traumatized Joan, gone off to who knows where? There are even greater challenges still to face.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen full UK-length edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Entry wounds: Hathaway starts work on his first murder case as an inspector with the help of a new partner, DS Lizzie Maddox. but as the pair delve into the worlds of neurosurgery, blood sports, and animal rights, Hathaway's theories are challenged by alarming new developments. He realizes he needs the insight of the retired Lewis to close the case.
The lions of Nemea: Lewis, Hathaway, and Maddox's abilities as a team are severely tested when they...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join host Willem Lange as he explores migratory birds native to New England. From the longest-running wildlife census in the world to the incredible migratory route of the Broad-Winged Hawk, this two-disc compilation features five wonderful programs bird enthusiasts will enjoy..
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen original U.K. ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Lewis and Detective Sergeant Hathaway face three new mysteries in the sixth season of Lewis, a television show inspired by the Inspector Morse novels of Colin Dexter.
Publisher
PBS [Distributor]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Original UK ed. ; [widescreen version].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With his young partner DS Hathaway, they continue solving cases in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
15) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park have taken up civilian lives. Susan has collated data about a series of murders. She tries to convince the police she knows where another body is, but they are unable to locate it and dismiss her. She turns to her three friends and they work out where the next victim will be taken, find the body, and then decide they are the only ones who can track down the killer.
18) Home fires
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The detectives are on a mission to uncover the mystery behind an unsolved murder that occurred 39 years ago. Beneath the ground of a demolished house, the bones of the victim are found. With this evidence, the modern police team opens a case to unearth the history that has remained buried for decades. Four main suspects emerge, and as their dark past is unraveled, the truth behind the events of the crime is finally revealed.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The whiskey-drinking and jazz-loving vicar Sidney Chambers returns alongside his friend and veteran cop Inspector Geordie Keating for a second season of crime solving in the small country parish.