Bob Peck
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen version.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
Series
Publisher
Tango Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The tale of a grumpy academic and the lower-class woman who joins his household staff. He bucks the class prejudices of the time by showing compassion and trying to educate her children.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 314 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escorting his daughter home from college, Detective Inspector Ronald Craven watches helplessly as she is gunned down in cold blood. Hellbent on revenge, his search for her killer leads him on a terrifying one-way trip to the heart of the nuclear state.
Publisher
Arte France Développement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Each episode has artists and intellectuals from around the world start with a Greek word and use it as a starting point for a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Greek culture on today's society."--Container
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (131 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
6) Hard times
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds...
Author
Series
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (205 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is faced by a spectre from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young Prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy, Shakespeare's most famous and one of...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1997
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Frances and Elsie believe in fairies. The photographs the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controvery that sweeps through a recovering World War I England during 1917. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and master illusionist Harry Houdini. But are the photographs real or just a cleaver hoax?
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a trio of witches prophesy Macbeth's ascension to the throne, Lady Macbeth pushes her husband into a murderous spree. But once crowned king of Scotland, Macbeth sees ghastly visions, fueled by guilt and a new prophecy, that ensure his ultimate downfall.
