ITV Global Entertainment
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An outstanding cast of acclaimed British actors bring the First World War to life in this stirring documentary created to commemorate the conflict's centennial in 2014. This unique four-part series mixes archival footage with reenactments by actors playing real participants in the war and performing excerpts from their original letters, memoirs, and diaries of the time.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when Uncle Ralph visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight name Morgan Derby, Jennifer's dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following the shocking cliffhanger last season, Station House Number Four attempts to clear Murdoch's name after he is arrested for murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell and Theodore Roosevelt.
Series
Doctor Blake volume 4
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of Dr. Lucien Blake as he practices medicine and investigates murder in 1950s rural Australia.
8) Vera: Set 8
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian treasures. Discovered in 1939 by French archeologist Pierre Montet, why hasn't the world heard about it? Archaeologists, using the hieroglyphs inside the tomb, pieced together the identity of the pharaoh, and further investigation reveals political intrigue, a lost city, and a leader who united a country in turmoil and became the Silver Pharaoh.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.
The two traditions: Shakespeare wrote for a performance style that differs in many respects from modern, "naturalistic" acting. Barton urges the actors to marry both traditions for the richest, most faithful characterizations.
Using...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winningly clever and playful, this acclaimed Canadian series returns with new mysteries set in Edwardian-era Toronto. In Season Nine, Detective William Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, plan their dream home; Constable Crabtree faces dire consequences for his decisions; and Dr. Emily Grace experiences a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Inspector Brackenreid endures an eccentric houseguest, and a new morgue cleaner turned lab attendant brings fresh...
14) Mum: Season one
Publisher
Big Talk Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On the docket for criminal law barrister Henry Farmer are railway crashes, an Asperger's patient accused of killing his own mother, a nurse who may or may not be a murderous gold digger, trial by media, and trials gone haywire. Meanwhile, Henry is sleeping on the office floor, dealing with seduction and divorce, and helping a coworker accused of cheating on a game show. It's all in a day's work!
17) The great fire
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of London raged for four days in 1666, making over 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants homeless. From King Charles II and Samuel Pepys to Thomas Farriner, the King's baker, in whose premises the fire began, witness the chaos of a city imploding, and the fear and rumors of treachery that took hold. This drama recreates the chaos of a city imploding, and the fear and rumors of treachery that took hold.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Days before Christmas in turn-of-the-century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch is called to investigate a daring train robbery. When witnesses insist the culprit exhibited super-human abilities, Constable Crabtree realizes the robber bears a striking resemblance to the title character of his new graphic novel, Jumping Jack.
19) Vera: Set 7
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Memento mori: A mild-manner doctor is accused of poisoning his manic-depressive wife.
Care in the community: Kavanagh takes on a case involving a dead infant and two unfit parents.
Briefs trooping gaily: Kavanagh must defend a woman who insists that she is guilty as charged of murdering her husband.