Jenny Agutter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Anne Bronte's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and...
2) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl and her brother become lost in the Australian outback and learn how to survive from a young aboriginal boy on his walkabout.
6) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
"Nicolas Roeg's mystical masterpiece chronicles the physical, spiritual, and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. Joining an Aborigine boy on his walkabout--a tribal initiation into manhood--these modern children pass from innocence into experience as they are thrust from the comforts of civilization into the savagery of the natural world." --container.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital.
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to on his morning train journey. Bobbie, the eldest girl, makes contact with him to try and get help for the problems they are facing. Meanwhile the children find themselves involved in several unexpected...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
From the novel by E. Nesbit; a delightful story of three children who live in an old cottage near the railway line. Every day they watch the trains go by and become great friends with Perks, the porter and an old gentleman who travels on the "Green Dragon". Their involvement with the railway leads to many great adventures and dangers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions.
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two American students are on a walking tour of England. As they trudge on to the next town, suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl and the two are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed, but reverts to its human form, and the townspeople are able to deny its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent...
15) Amy
Series
Publisher
On-Demand
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A poignant and inspiring drama about a young woman who flees her wealthy but domineering husband to take a job as a teacher in a rural school for the deaf. As Amy enters this world without sound, she teaches the deaf children to speak. And in return, they teach her to love.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Under the sinister influence of Minister of Finance Fouquet, Louis rules with wasteful opulence. His brother Philippe, the rightful heir, lives in obscurity with no knowledge of his birthright. But the captain of the Musketeers, D'Artagnan, has plans to restore the declining fortunes of the throne by secretly substituting Philippe for the King.
18) Logan's run
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2274, everyone lives a wonderful life until they're 30 years old--then they're executed.
19) MI-5: Volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Undercover agents for the British government not only lie to infiltrate the organizations they are investigating, but the lies must continue in their personal lives as well.
20) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.