James D'Arcy
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
Series
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1805 and Europe has fallen to Napoleon. The Royal Navy is the only thing standing in his way to total victory. Off the coast of South America, a new conflict is brewing. Captain Jack 'Lucky Jack' Aubrey and his Man-of-War HMS Surprise is under orders to sink or capture the French privateer Acheron, which has been deployed to the region. After seven weeks of uneventful sailing, the Acheron strikes first, all but crippling the Surprise in...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heart-warming father son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. As Robert and Jack painstakingly restore the villa to its previous glory, they also start to mend their relationship. The future may now look quite...
5) Survivor
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Foreign Service Officer newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the US. After surviving a vicious attack on the embassy, she finds herself framed for crimes she didn't commit and racing to elude assassins while trying to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve.
6) W./E
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious romance detailing one lonely woman's obsession with the relationship between King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) and American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough). To Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), no act of devotion in history is more romantic than King Edward VIII abdicating the throne to be with his one true love. But the deeper Wally dives into the background of this controversial love affair, the more apparent it becomes that...
7) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
8) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Intense war experience and some language.
10) Cloud atlas
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
11) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennesee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
13) Let's be cops
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
14) Guernica
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spain 1937: An American journalist and a press-office censor form a secret alliance days before a bombing that sets the stage for WWII.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs (approximately 425 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.
Peggy Carter trades the New York office for the bright lights of Hollywood in the second season of Agent Carter, where she encounters bizarre phenomena, an actress turned mad scientist, and finds herself in a love triangle....
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.
Marvel's latest television series, Agent Carter, takes viewers on the journey Agent Peggy Carter of Captain America fame. After the war, Peggy finds herself begrudgingly doing administrative work for the Strategic Science...
17) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray/DVD combo package.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 blu-ray disc.
Language
English
Description
"Six stories spanning centuries. One soul ... in interwoven tales as time shifts between past, present and future. As characters reunite from one life to the next, their actions generate consequences: a killer evolves into a hero. An act of kindness inspires a revolution"--Container.
18) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray & DVD combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock ... becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma ... as he sets out to make the film"--Container.