Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930s London, the black jazz group known as the Louis Lester Band is on the rise. Countless aristocrats ask the band to perform, but as the band's success balloons, tragedy strikes, setting off events that may end it all.
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.
Publisher
Carnival Film & Television Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (NTSC, 525 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues, beginning six months after the unexpected death of Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor, in a car accident. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals that are almost Victorian in their solemnity. Nonetheless, life goes on at Downton Abbey and the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before — permanently altering the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people. Contending with death on an unprecedented scale posed challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began. Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, and new ways of coping...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen original UK ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New research has shown that crows are among the most intelligent animals in the world, able to use tools as only elephants and chimpanzees do, able to recognize each other's voices and 250 distinct calls. Crow experts from around the world sing their praises, and present us with captivating new footage of crows as we have never seen them before.
8) Dark Money
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana -a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide - to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature at the...
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart must untangle lies that have been covered up for nearly forty years. With her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan they narrow the list to four suspects, each with something to hide. As their deceptions are discovered, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of.
16) 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.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emily Watson stars in this powerful, emotional story about the choice between love and loyalty. Based on George Eliot's novel, The Mill on the Floss. As a child, Maggie Tulliver adores her brother Tom and desperately seeks his love and approval, but never receives it. While Tom grows up to be the kind of person the world approves of - dutiful and proud, Maggie becomes the kind of person the world judges harshly. A woman ahead of her time, brimming...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
First, George accidentally frees some of the animals at the zoo. Then, George discovers that different animals make different tracks. Next, George learns that all living things behave in different ways. Then, George designs and builds the perfect pigeon perch. Next, George must gather and analyze evidence to prove that Gnocchi has been wrongfully accused. Then, George realizes that dogs come in all different shapes and sizes. Next, George learns a...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (750 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join archaeologists and divers recovering remains of ships and planes lost during World War II’s epic Dunkirk operation. Discover new evidence of the ingenious technology that helped save Allied forces from defeat by the encircling Germans.