Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Having escaped to hide in Elizabethan London, Matthew and Diana must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DISSummary: Matthew and Diana return from their trip to 1590 to find tragedy has occurred at Sept-Tours. They are closer to knowing the location of the Book of Life and its missing pages, but enemies from their past and present are threatening from all sides.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DISSummary: A story about the Luckett family of Pennsylvania who travel to unexplored territory in Ohio and those who followed them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AWASummary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: Daniel Milton's once comfortable world as a talented surgeon is pushed to even greater extremes as he risks everything to stay ahead of his lies in the much-anticipated second season. Daniel's wife Beth has woken from her coma and their daughter Eve is reeling with the discovery that her mother has been alive all this time. Lee, the co-founder of the underground clinic, gets swept up in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEMSummary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007