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1) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
2) Mrs. Miniver
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen complete U. K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows. Mysteries include: The Russian House; Killing Time; and The Hide.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a bleak winter in 1947. Snow covers the grounds of the decaying Cornwall estate, Nancherrow. Food is scarce, the servants are gone and Diana Carey-Lewis is mourning the loss of her husband, the long-time master of the house. The massive family home now passes to their rebellious daughter, Loveday. Yet the cold, damp walls of Nancherrow hold many secrets and demand a high price for all who live in its foreboding shadow.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approx. 274 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
8) Danger UXB
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
p2005, c1978
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 11 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During WWII, the Nazi's dropped some bombs that were not designed to detonate on imact. These unexploded time bombs, UXBs, posed one of the greatest risks to the people and property of England. It was the job of real-life heroes of the bomb disposal squads to defuse them. Danger UXB is the story of the loves and lives, victories and defeats, played against the background of a nation gripped by war.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of World War II, a mysterious stranger calling himself Harrison makes a sinister proposotion to beautiful widow Stella. Take up with him, Harrison says, and he won't expose her lover as a traitor passing secrets to the enemy. Harrison's stunning accusation forces Stella to reexamine her love and life, with startling consequences"--Container.
11) Land girls
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 223 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.)
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
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
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
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
History meets mystery in this PBS series, with four feature-length episodes set at the height of World War II. War has torn the social fabric of the once quiet coastal community of Hastings and DCS Christopher Foyle's investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005, 1964
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cynical American naval officer (Garner) is assigned a lovely young English widow (Andrews) as his driver in this comedy set in London during World War II. Despite their differences they fall in love, but his superiors seem to have nasty plans for him involving D-day!
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