Summary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CRO

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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO

Summary: 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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Summary: Set in an Edwardian country house starting in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Summary: "This set includes the first three seasons of this Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winning series, bringing Downton Abbey from pre-war England through the storms of World War I and into the social upheaval of England in the 1920s as the lives of its inhabitants are shaped by romance and heartbreak, ambition and betrayal."--Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV DOWN

Summary: In 1818 India, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angélique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops : an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. acting as agents for 2 entertain Video Ltd. 2010

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

Summary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAI

Summary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAI

Summary: The Defoes are back at the newly merged law firm Noble Hale Defoe. And Hannah's latest case, the divorce of the UK's most powerful celebrity couple, is set to put NHD on the map. As Hannah fights one of the most public cases of her career, she's also fighting a private battle to save her marriage. Following the devastating revelation of Nathan's betrayal, her formerly rock-solid marriage is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: The BATAA-winning, international hit spy drama returns for a nail-biting tenth and final series. With the truth about Lucas North finally revealed, and following his rooftop showdown at the end of the last series, Harry is facing some complicated questions about the future of Section D as well as some skeletons from his own past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Warner Home Video, distributor] 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MI-5

Summary: The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

Summary: Season 3: "The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other great houses are crippled psychologically and financially in the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Summary: The second season of Borgia "is a cauldron of intrigue, violence, murder, lust, politics, faith, incest, betrayal and redemption, a story as compelling and enlightening as the age in which it takes place"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Kwabena quits his dead-end recruitment job to chase his dream of becoming a filmmaker and is thrown into a world of uncertainty. Having recently met the tantalizing Vanessa, he struggles to keep up with her taste for fancy restaurants and cocktail bars by secretly taking shifts as a fast-food delivery driver. Meanwhile, his cousin has a baby on the way, meaning he needs to find a new place to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV DRE
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Mrs Sidhu is a caterer with a taste for solving mysteries. Her sleuthing turns into an unofficial partnership with dour DCI Burton, who reluctantly accepts that together they make the perfect pairing to fight crime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRS
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: 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: 2008

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

Summary: It's Spring 1940 and with Europe at war, the community in Darrowby are pulling together more than ever before. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice: highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, and student vet Richard Carmody.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ALL

Summary: 1919: WWI has just ended, old imperial empires have collapsed and Europe is swept up in a wave of modern ideas. Young Doerte Helm arrives at the newly-founded Bauhaus art school in Weimar thrilled by the innovative approach of its director, the architect Walter Gropius. Like so many others, she becomes a true disciple of the new movement but something more to Gropius as they fall in love. They...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAU

Summary: Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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

Summary: Detective Murdoch and Dr. Ogden are thrilled with their new baby, but domestic bliss eludes Crabtree on his path to the altar and coroner Miss Hart as she deals with her menacing father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MUR