Summary: Putting his brilliant intellect and fastidious nature to the test, Agatha Christie₂s famous Belgian detective solves the most mystifying crimes of the Art Deco era in these newly remastered adaptations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a variety of mysteries with the help of his friends Captain Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SMACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMASummary: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 8Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2019Summary: A dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman hurls herself at modern living in London. She often escapes into momentary fantasy asides -- letting an imaginary audience hear her unspoken gibes -- as she navigates her father's emotional distance, her godmother-turned-stepmother, her perfect sister and horrible brother-in-law as well as her seemingly-doomed love life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FLECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: The story is about the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters linked to a neighborhood street. One day, the street's residents all receive an anonymous postcard through their front doors bearing a simple message: "We want what you have." Who is behind the anonymous hate campaign? And what do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, interweaving stories reveal lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAPSummary: Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHISummary: Fresh off his success catching a headline grabbing killer, DCI Colin Sutton is on the brink of retirement when he's asked to review the long running inquiry into another infamous predator. Known as "The Night Stalker" to the press and "Minstead Man" to the police, this serial rapist has stalked the elderly of Southeast London for nearly two decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What if Germany had won the war? This story explores an alternative timeline in which the United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Based on the novel by acclaimed spy novelist Len Deighton, this exciting mini-series follows detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a murder that draws him in to a web of political intrigue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BELSummary: Elephants can remember: "While Poirot investigates a famed psychiatrist's murder, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver looks into a couple's mysterious death." -- The Big Four: "With the world on the brink of war, Poirot finds himself drawn into a case marked by political intrigue and international connections. -- Dead man's folly: "Fiction turns to fact when a young woman is killed at a "murder hunt"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008