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Father Brown 1Summary: Spans three decades from the early twenties to World War II in Charles Ryder's relationship with the wild and eccentric Sebastian Flyte and the aristocratic Marchmain family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the 1930s, a cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach in post-revolution Mexico: a cleric who risks his life by continuing to conduct the Catholic Mass in secret after the totalitarian government has outlawed the Catholic Church. In order to confer the Christian sacraments, the priest must have wine but his attempts to obtain wine will call attention to his clandestine activities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWSummary: A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRISummary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Summary: Irish Catholic couple Sean and Claudia Finnerty live in Staten Island, New York, with their three children, Lily, Jimmy, and Henry. They get into all sorts of trouble, usually because of Sean's brother, Eddie, who's got connections all over town. Sean and Eddie's father, Walt, often drops by and shares in the disaster. Most adventures are later recalled and they find out exactly what happened,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GROSummary: The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIABean, Sean
Summary: Follows the struggles of a priest with a troubled past in a northern English city and his parishoners, including a single, unemployed mother of three who keeps her mother's death a secret in order to continue collecting her pension.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BROSummary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BENSummary: A devout Catholic priest freelances as a private investigator in rural England during the 1920s. When it comes to amateur detective work, don't let this priest's absent-minded air and penchant for an occasionsl tipple fool you. His kindly eyes pick up clues that professionals usually miss, and his keen understanding of human nature lets him search men's souls for motives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media [distributor] 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Tucker, Todd
Contents: Prologue, May 19, 1924 -- The antagonists : Matthew Walsh and D.C. Stephenson -- The unlikely rise of the University of Notre Dame -- The reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan -- The rise of Notre Dame and the Indiana Klan -- The Klan takes over Indiana -- Notre Dame in the Klan's crosshairs -- D.C. Stephenson's grab for power -- The rally and the riot -- The ambush and Walsh's speech -- The ascent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.772 TUCSummary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ten more cases that pits Father Brown, his secretary and Bunty against a range of criminal minds in the English parish of 1950s Kembleford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018