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Ian Hart
2) Longitude
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
The adaptation of Dava Sobel's book which tells a story of high seas adventure and political intrigue in the race to discover the life-or-death secret of Longitude.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the timeless novel by Defoe, shipwreck survivor Robinson Crusoe risks his life to save a doomed local tribesman from certain death. Both men--each stranded and unable to return home-- must cross an immense cultural divide to forge a friendship and survive against impossible odds.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd. Program
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The re-telling of the valiant story of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite many separate kingdoms into what would become England. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people reclaimed their land from the invading Vikings and built a place they call home.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Russians are furious with the English establishment's indifference to the anarchist threat gripping the rest of Europe. So Verloc, a Russian spy, is assigned a mission: blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack to provoke a crackdown. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy could be exposed to his vicious comrades.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As The Virgin Queen begins, a young Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower of London by Queen Mary, charged with conspiracy and treason. Both women are daughters of the ruthless and oft-married Henry VIII, who plunged England into turmoil by breaking with the Roman Catholic Church. Mary wants to reunite with Rome, while Elizabeth is determined to stand by her Protestant faith--a potentially fatal choice. But Elizabeth's life takes an unexpected turn...
8) Aberdeen
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kaisa, a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together ... at least until her mother asks an enormous favor of her: to bring back her estranged, larger-than-life father. The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild and brutally funny, yet heartbreaking journey which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Miles is the bored wife of a British civil servant. When Mr. Miles introduces her to American writer Maurice Bendrix at one of the couple's cocktail parties, she is unable to deny her attraction to him, or to resist his interest in her.
11) Help
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah ... starts working as a care assistant in a home for the elderly, she discovers she has a special talent for looking after the residents. ... but with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, she and her colleagues are left ill equipped, led by an overwhelmed manager, and made helpless by the powers that be"--Container insert.
Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A story of redemption, vengeance, and self-discovery set against the birth of England, this drama follows young warrior and outsider Uhtred on a fierce mission to reclaim his birthright. The series combines real historical figures and events with fiction, retelling the history of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite the many separate kingdoms into what would become England.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
16) Marlowe
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a contemporary story of redemption, vengeance and self-discovery set against the birth of England. Adapted from Bernard Cornwell's best-selling series of books it combines real historical figures and events with fiction. Against a turbulent backdrop lives Uhtred. Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse, and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.