Bill Paterson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Max and Jake couldn't be more different. Max is wealthy with a perfect life. Jake scrapes by, running a record shop. Driving home late one night, they accidentally kill an old man on a darkened street.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 745 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third season of Outlander picks up right after Claire travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank. Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 1,140 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
5) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of a journalist who is covering the war in Cambodia. He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's much-loved heroine is back on the case in a sparkling version of her 1961 novel. Miss Marple takes on a spooky murder case at an inn run by three modern-day witches.
8) Macbeth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.
Language
English
Description
One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
10) Little Dorrit
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in late nineteenth-century Russia, a Russian aristocrat returns home after a long absence and learns her family fortune has been squandered and she may have to sell her mansion and the beloved cherry orchard.
12) Smiley's people
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This brilliant sequel to 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' finds Smiley emerging from retirement to engage his lifelong nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla, in a final test of wits, nerves, and loyalties. Stellar ensemble casts bring John le Carre's thrilling tales of Cold War-era espionage to vivid life in these television classics.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman hurls herself at modern living in London. She often escapes into momentary fantasy asides -- letting an imaginary audience hear her unspoken gibes -- as she navigates her father's emotional distance, her godmother-turned-stepmother, her perfect sister and horrible brother-in-law as well as her seemingly-doomed love life.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
29 videodiscs (approximately 46 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered the home front.
17) Hard times
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. This time around, she's coping with her father's upcoming nuptuals, and her attraction to the hot priest they've chosen to officiate, while the brother-in-law escalates everything around him.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 471 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The focus is on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization, Michael Stonebridge is a British soldier trying to overcome a tragedy and Damien Scott a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative. Contains episodes 41-50.