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2) Pygmalion
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Series
Language
English
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Description
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.
Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...
3) 9 songs
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 67 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In London, England, love blooms between an American college student, named Lisa, and a British glaciologist, named Matt, where over the next few months in between attending rock concerts, the two lovers have intense sexual encounters.
4) Lured
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this sumptuous thriller by legendary filmmaker Douglas Sirk and featuring a bevy of classic stars of the silver screen, a serial killer is on the loose in London, luring young women into his web through ads placed in the personal column. Scotland Yard's bait to ensnare the villain is a young American dance hall girl (played by a stunning Lucille Ball), who encounters a series of likely suspects, including the always dashing George Sanders as a...
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English
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Description
Originally performed and published in 1675, this five-act play parodies the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London. The plot centers on the eponymous country wife, Margery, whose suspicious husband, Mr. Pinchwife, keeps her isolated. On a rare outing to the theater, Margery encounters the aptly named Mr. Horner. A notorious rake who feigns impotence to trick his way into the intimate company of married ladies, Horner soon schools Margery in the...
6) Salvage
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Series
Coast of Utopia volume pt. 3
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English
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Description
Comprising of three sequential plays, The Coast of Utopia chronicles the story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors. The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term 'intelligentsia' was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was...
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Language
English
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A one-man play featuring Karl Marx in today's New York. In a monologue, he observes capitalism committing the same abuses he railed against a century and a half earlier in his Communist Manifesto. And just for the record he reminds everyone, "I am not a Marxist." By the author of A People's History of the United States.
10) Neverwhere
Author
Language
English
Description
"Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaiman's adult fiction....American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along." —Huffington Post
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate
...11) Little Dorrit
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Author
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xi, 71 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Starting from the basic premise that Vincent van Gogh stayed in a Brixton rooming house in the 1870s, from which he returned to Holland a changed man, this play imagines how a love affair developed between the young painter and a woman twice his age.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An assistant at British "Vogue," Jacks adores fixing up her friends, but when it comes to finding the right guy for herself, she's totally clueless. Love comes knocking at her door when she meets sexy photographer Paolo, but will she dare to let her guard down and let romance in?
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
16) Judy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
17) Berkeley Square
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 510 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three young nannies grow to be close friends as they manage the unpredictable road to love and happiness in the posh world of turn-of-the-century, upper-crust London.
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.
19) Sweeney Todd
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Director's cut. Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The filthy streets of 18th-century London come to teeming life, as we learn not just what the infamous serial killer known as the Demon Barber did, but also why.
20) All is true
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
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