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Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
62) Olive Kitteridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.
63) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Pub. Date
©2015.
Physical Desc
1 video disc (approximately 185 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 2-part miniseries, based on the bestselling novel by William Boyd. Enter a cloak and dagger world where everyone and everything is under suspicion. Haunted by the death of her brother at the hands of fascist thugs, Russian émigré Eva Delectorskaya is recruited to be a British secret agent by the shadowy figure, Lucas Romer. After proving her merit in the field, she is sent on the most dangerous mission of her life. She must use any means necessary...
65) Emma
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harries arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harries to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1788, Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. When Mary initiates an escape, she embarks on an arduous four thousand-mile journey toward freedom in a tragic and triumphant story that would make her one of history's most fascinating and courageous unsung heroines.--Container.
67) True women
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
69) Fall of eagles
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the fall of the three great ruling houses of Europe in the latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, the Hapzburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Romanovs of Russia, and the Hohenzollerns of Germany.
70) The Civil War
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (499 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection expands the dimensions of the familiar Winchester mythology. Journey down the backroads of America with brothers Sam and Dean as they search for clues to their father's disappearance, hunt down the supernatural in all its unearthly forms, and enter into the unexpected mystery of their destinies, in vibrant, exciting anime. Includes 22 episodes.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately . 182 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the dark brooding orphan boy Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights, he is at first shunned by his new stepsiblings, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine eventually falls in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley's rivalry with Heathcliff only deepens, and when Hindley inherits the estate, he treats Heathcliff as little more than a servant. When Catherine later marries a neighboring landowner who can offer her social advancement,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 13 hr., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joining the British Royal Navy at the outset of the Napoleonic Wars, the enterprising Horatio Hornblower rises quickly from raw recruit to seasoned sailor, charting a course from the West Indies to the coast of Africa in the name of the Crown. Along the way he encounters roiling sea battles, mutiny, plague, and love, but always proves himself equal to the task.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (177 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claude Monet recalls the story of the Impressionists - a movement that shook the foundation of the art world. He and fellow painters Auguste Renoir and Frederic Bazille begin a forty-year struggle against the Salon, the annual state art exhibition. Overcoming criticism, poverty and misfortune, Monet along with his counterparts eventually achieve the success they had only dreamed about.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (428 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
77) The Forsyte saga
Series
Language
English
Description
The fabled Forsyte family saga continues. Fluer, the daughter of Soames and Annette, and Jon, the son of Irene and Jolyon, meet by chance as youngsters. A decade later, they meet again and fall instantly - and disasterously - in love. This era in the saga of the privileged Forsytes unfolds amid the gaiety and social upheaval of the 1920's, the dawn of the modern age.
78) Us
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three weeks, six countries and one divorce? What was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime becomes a desperate quest for Douglas Petersen to save his marriage. From the bestselling novel by David Nicholls.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Join Taylor Swift on her first headlining tour as she celebrates the success of her multiplatinum album Fearless. Packed with 13 ... live performances, rare home movies and revealing interviews with Taylor and her inner circle, this concert special will take you from her earliest days as an aspiring singer-songwriter, through the stories that inspired her biggest songs"--Container.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (312 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-part British television dramatization of Edith Holden's bestselling book, exploring the character of the woman who wrote Nature Notes for 1906 and the world she knew. Each episode is a celebration of a month in 1906 and is described by Edith with the prose, poetry, and watercolor illustrations that made her book popular.
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