James Wilby
1) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, MAURICE is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. At a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced...
2) Adam Bede
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
3) Howards end
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
A tragic series of events occurs when two impulsive sisters become involved with a working-class couple and a wealthy family.
5) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
7) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Media Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen new 30th anniversary 4K restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 398 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The made-to-measure murders: Barnaby and Jones investigate the murder of a widow on her way to confession as well as the death of her husband two years before. The sword of Guillaume: While visiting Brighton on business, DCI Barnaby partners with his cousin, Brighton's DCI John Barnaby, to investigate a local murder. Blood on...
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Language
English
Formats
Description
V. 1: A 5-year-old goes missing from a playground in East London, but the search brings results too late.
V. 2: When the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up on a garbage heap, Walker and North know they face an exceptionally sadistic psychopath.
V. 3: A petite 15-year-old vanishes in the middle of her paper route. Hopes of finding her alive dwindle as the grisly clues begin to mount.
V. 4: An 8-year-old murder case is reopened, and media interest...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sane woman is locked up in an asylum by a fraudulent English aristocrat who is afraid she may expose his 'secret.' Escaping while wearing a white gown, she runs into a youthful hero who becomes haunted by his brief meeting with this 'woman in white.'
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (197 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until som e last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. As the characters are swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution, that long-ago promise...
20) A summer story
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 1/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer from the city falls in love with a farm girl while on a walking tour in Dartmoor at the turn of the century.
