Summary: After nearly 20 years of setting trends and pushing traditions, Selfridge's is still going strong as the triumph of London₂s Oxford Street. But Harry's potentially dangerous appetite for entertainment and women, while always a problem, has reached its peak. Now, he struggles to keep the reins of the store he loves, in the face of old troubles, new opportunities, and unsettled scores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mr Selfridge 2016Summary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: Busker and drug addict James is living hand to mouth in London when he adopts a sickly cat. James names the cat Bob and soon they are inseparable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STR RATED PG-13Summary: "From the creators of Upstairs, Downstairs (Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins) comes an addictive drama series set in the lively opulence of high-society London during the Roaring Twenties. Louise Lombard (Hidalgo, CSI) and Stella Gonet (Nicholas NIckleby) star as Evangeline and Beatrice Eliott, sisters born into weath and privilege who are left destitute when their spendthrif father dies suddenly....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOUSummary: The final season finds its end during the cold winter of 1901, taking the heroes to a place where a dark secret they all share emerges to destroy the lives they've built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIPSummary: Three years have passed since the Leman Street locomotive disaster, when DI Edmund Reid is forced to return to Whitechapel to help clear his former associate's name. Once again Reid finds himself, along with DS Drake, plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to overtake London's East End on the eve of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIPSummary: It's a few months after the end of Season One. Eliza Scarlet has solved her father's murder while her relationship with Inspector William Wellington, aka the Duke, continues to slowly simmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CHISummary: When Finn Wallace, the head of London's most powerful crime family, is assassinated, no one knows who ordered the hit. With rivals everywhere, Finn's impulsive son Sean takes over and puts a stop to all criminal business in London until his father's killer is found. As the city is torn apart by the power struggles of the international gangs that control it, Sean finds the only person he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GANSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: To the stunned disbelief of his colleagues and patients, a London psychologist appears to have taken his own life. However, his daughter refuses to believe it, and instead is convinced it was murder. She recruits one of his former patients for help.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: Through hard work, talent, and ambition, a servant girl rises from scullery maid to become the finest chef in London and Edwardian society's premier hostess. Along the way her beauty and spirit attract the attention of high-placed admirers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DUCSummary: Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mr Selfridge 2013Summary: Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MR.Summary: Raw and smoldering, the film follows a young reggae DJ in Thatcher-era Brixton as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Fearless and unsentimental, and set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and more, anchored by legendary producer Dennis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BABSummary: "One year after the death of Sean Wallace, there is chaos in London. To restore order, the investors have installed a new ruling force in the form of a brutal new gang leader but the other gangs are fighting back."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GANSummary: 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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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MANSummary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2020Summary: A hard-hitting police drama set in the vice unit of the Metropolitan Police, based in the heart of London's West End. Prostitution, pornography and murder are all part of the workload for the vice team as they investigate the capital's darker secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICSummary: Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series All 2010Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007