Summary: 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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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAN

Summary: Pollyanna becomes an orphan and moves in with her aunt in a little English town. Everyone is affected by Pollyanna's big heart. They get the opportunity to repay Pollyanna for her goodness when she has a terrible accident.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POL

Summary: This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Cla Dickens Oliver

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OLI

Summary: What enables a simple arch bridge to support such great weight? What holds up a suspension bridge? Bridge the world with award-winning author-illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and meet the brilliant designers who dared to extend roads and railways with ingenious but sometimes flawed designs. From the Golden Gate Bridge to some of the world's groundbreaking spans, you'll...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRI

Summary: As Britain stands on the brink of WWII, Tom Oakley, a cantankerous old man living a solitary life in a small village becomes the guardian of an 11-year-old evacuee of London. The two develop a bond of friendship that gives them both new hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2005

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOO

Summary: "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 NOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR NOT RATED

Summary: Scientists and scholars recount the history of in vitro fertilization. Focuses on the pioneering work of Landrum Shettles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TES

Summary: Sweet Molly Gibson was living life pleasantly when her widowed father decides that, for the good of his daughter, he must remarry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIV

Summary: Based on the 1997 Royal National Theatre production, widely considered the finest staging of King Lear in the past decade, Ian Holm 'touches greatness' (N.Y. Times) in Shakespeare's most sublime and difficult role.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KIN

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAI
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RAI

Summary: The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie David

Summary: Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV OLI

Summary: A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRE

Summary: Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOS