Summary: Series 1 : Stubborn, incorruptible old cop George Gently partners with a young, ambitious protege to tackle cases in the North East of England during the turbulent 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROSummary: The brilliant 1958 TV sci-fi drama series, was an adaption of H.G. Wells' 1897 novel of the same name. A precursor to The Saint, The Avengers and the James Bond craze of the mid-1960's, this version, which portrays Wells' classic character in a 20th century setting, is perhaps the most famous of all the adaptations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INVSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his condierable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Second time around) The murder of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSMurphy, Robert
Summary: Transferred to Bath from London and looking to make good, ambitious DCI Lauren McDonald found the first task handed her was to see if she couldn't gently nudge her new assistant -- aging, colorless desk jockey DS Dodds -- into retirement. The mismatched pair would prove surprisingly able in cracking the hardest cases, in this clever ITV offering.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MCDSummary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: It's all 'elementary, my dear' in two classic Sherlock Holmes tales, starring Christopher Lee. In 'Sherlock Holmes & the Leading Lady', Holmes and Watson foil a bombing plot directed at killing the Austro-Hungarian Emperor. In 'Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls', someone is killed on Africa's Orient Express while Holmes is on his way to save a famous diamond. A passenger is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PATSummary: Mystery of the blue train: When the daughter of an oil magnate is found dead on the famous Blue Train to the French Riviera, Poirot must investigate the past to reveal the killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD POISummary: Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOTSummary: Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get a hold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. She hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: "The mythical city of Camelot, in a time before history began. A fantastical realm of legendary beasts and mysterious peoples. A dangerous world in which magic has been banned by the ruthless tyrant. Uther Pendragon. When Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, arrives in the kingdom he quickly makes enemies including the heir to Uther's crown, the headstrong Prince...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADVSummary: When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.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