Roger Allam
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the Best-Selling Comedy Novel by Stephen Fry. Disgruntled, cantankerous semi-famous poet Ted Wallace (Roger Allam - Endeavor, The Queen) is hired to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings. Also starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Dark Knight Rises, Full Metal Jacket) and Fiona Shaw (5 Harry Potter movies).
Author
Language
English
Description
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.
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.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year 1971 has barely just begun and CID is still reeling from the events of the past year. Any hope of remaining on light duties has vanished and the team find themselves right back in the thick of it.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year₂s Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
UK Edition
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1969, and things have taken a darker turn for the old Cowley team. With the gang now scattered across Oxfordshire, it takes a series of brutal crimes to reunite them. Now joined by former adversary DCI Ronnie Box and his sidekick DS Alan Jago, the gang must battle crime and corruption to finally solve their greatest challenge, which is to find the truth behind George Fancy's death.
13) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed ; Original UK ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing stories of rookie Constable Morse. Shaun Evans (The Take, The Virgin Queen) stars as the young Endeavour Morse, before his signature red Jaguar, but with his deductive powers already running in high gear. Four new episodes and the pilot is included.
15) Tamara Drewe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tamara Drewe was an ugly duckling when she left town. Years later, she is a sexy swan who has returned to her hometown after the death of her mother. Her plans are to refurbish the family home and put it on the market. It isn't long before Tamara finds herself pursued by three men from her past: Andy, her former boyfriend, Ben, the drummer with a local rock band, and Nicholas, the boy she was infatuated with in her teens.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As 1968 dawns, a year of change promises to disrupt the private and professional lives of Endeavour Morse and his colleagues. Endeavour's recent promotion leads him to reluctantly mentor new recruit Fancy, while Thursday is beginning to think about life after the police. But in Oxford, crime never sleeps, and the team continues to be challenged by mysterious and intriguing cases of murder, greed, and deception. Meanwhile, the rise of organized crime...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Last seen languishing in a prison cell and framed for a crime he didn't commit, Endeavour is compelled to return to duty when a young woman's baffling murder requires his singularly cerebral mind to solve.
Publisher
Mammoth Screen Limited
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spring 1972 brings with it a new start for Morse, having taken time out to deal with the drink. His return to CID coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated orchestra and when a second tragedy hits, they uncover a web of secrets at the company's core.
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words, "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school....