Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD S

Summary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012

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

Summary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

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

Summary: Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2001

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

Summary: Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MAC

Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas from an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005

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

Summary: Beautiful orphan Edith Adelton came to the United States as a child to be a companion and tutor to the Hamilton family's young daughter Amy. Though Edith's parentage is a mystery, she has found great happiness with the Hamiltons. When the family's cousin Ida comes to visit, Mrs. Hamilton enlists Edith in a matchmaking plan involving two suitors for Ida. But both men fall for the lovely Edith....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004

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

Queen Elizabeth II

Summary: Tells the story of Queen Elizabeth's experiences during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020

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

Summary: Anne of Green Gables, a new adaptation of the classic series, set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANN

Summary: A biopic of the flamboyant Princess Margaret from the days after her father's death in 1952 through the 1970s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain Video 2007

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

Summary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAK

Summary: "Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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

Summary: The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009

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

Summary: A London mansion housing a huge library of rare old photos gets a new owner who is bent on chucking the pictures and remaking the house as a business college. The library's manager is determined to save the collection at all costs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shooting 2006

Summary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Hard 2005

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 SEN

Summary: In the third installment of this new adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's novels, Anne Shirley, now a young adult, leaves Green Gables to attend Queen's College, preparing to be a teacher. Facing an difficult choice and being overwhelmed by loneliness, Anne finds a silver lining.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD An

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

Summary: Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMA

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMA

Summary: Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain/BBC Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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