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...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An art teacher, hired to teach two young English women, is startled by a chance encounter with an ethereal woman dressed in white as he travels to his new job. Things become even more mysterious when one of his new students bears a resemblance to the ghostly woman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 398 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
4) Adam Bede
Author
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
5) Regeneration
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a psychiatrist at a respected Scottish asylum, Dr. Rivers heals shellshocked soldiers so they can be sent back into the trenches. Then he encounters a different kind of patient - a war hero sent to the asylum for publishing an outspoken anti-war pamphlet. As each struggles to cope with the war, the line between patient and doctor begins to blur.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 194 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 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 some 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 'or for anyone you love'"--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad--veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam, The Beiderbecke Affair), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong, Garrow's Law), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman, The Sweeney)--have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman, Sexy Beast) their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
1992, p[2003]
Edition
{Fullscreen edition].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen; Complete U.K. broadcast edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (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.
11) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
New 25th anniversary 4K restoration ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1926, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is the fascinating and brutal account of the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918 by T. E. Lawrence, more famously known as "Lawrence of Arabia". Written, rewritten, and edited over a period of several years from 1919 to 1926, Lawrence recounts his time serving in the British Forces in North Africa when he was based in Wadi Rum. He describes his role assisting in the organization and carrying out of attacks...
13) The Professor
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë, is a remarkable exploration of ambition, identity, and resilience, themes that resonate deeply in today's society. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows William Crimsworth, an Englishman who rejects a life of servitude to his wealthy relatives and seeks independence and success on his own terms. William's journey takes him to Belgium, where he becomes a teacher and grapples with cultural displacement, professional...
14) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Collector's edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Sleeping murder: Gwenda arrives in England, looking forward to her impending marriage and new life in a lovely old coastal estate. But she begins to experience visions and Miss Marple concludes that the bride-to-be witnessed a murder in that very house as a child. By the pricking of my thumbs: Miss Marple teams up with two detectives,...