Summary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACRSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENSummary: "In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR NOT RATEDSummary: Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls in love with a London dance-hall girl and decides to marry her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with their unlikely union.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONSummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Persuassion 2008Summary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDUSummary: Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2008Summary: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Atonement 2008Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ATOSummary: Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUC RATED PG-13Hepburn, Audrey
Summary: A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Warner 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family My 2004Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Adventures 2010Summary: A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOWSummary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Following the banning of his earlier novel, The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence shocked his audience yet again with Women in Love. Combining elements of both novels, this adaptation focuses on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with their own loves, desires, passions, and relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. As Ursula and Birkin's friendship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED RSummary: In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MSummary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PGSummary: A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011