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Drama. Fiction television programs. Historical television programs. Science fiction television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Television programs-Great Britain. Television programs. Television series. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HANSummary: 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 DOWSummary: Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: As the enormously popular mystery series returns, 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: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: 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: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: In this season, the team loses Mickey Bricks to an overseas sabbatical, so it's time for someone else to lead the gang. Danny steps up to the plate, but can the others convince him that the team needs another member-- especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? There are, as always, plenty of marks who are greedy, rude, or simply nasty enough to be parted from their cash....
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 HUSSummary: Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations. They devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSSummary: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: England, 1925. The TARDIS materializes on a quiet railway platform where the Doctor, Tegan, Adric and Nyssa soon discover they are expected at an afternoon cricket match. And when the time travelers are invited to stay at Cranleigh Hall for a fancy dress ball, it isn't long before they uncover a terrible family secret. Who is murdering the servants and why? A rare flower may hold the answer.
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 DOCSummary: Exiled to Earth and now working for UNIT as their scientific advisor, the Doctor is summoned to an underground research center at Wenley Moor to investigate a series of inexplicable power losses. Initially suspecting sabotage, he soon discovers that the nearby cave system conceals a colony of an ancient race called the Silurians. Awaking from a hibernation which has lasted millions of years,...
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 DOCSummary: The TARDIS arrives by accident in the middle of Terminal One at Heathrow Airport. One of the supersonic Concordes has disappeared midair, and the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa soon become involved in a hunt for the missing airplane. But what connects its disappearance to prehistoric Earth, and why is a mysterious sorcerer so interested in the Doctor's TARDIS? A flight through time will reveal all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: 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: At the height of WWII, brave British women risk their lives as secret agents in occupied France. Based on real-life stories, filmed on location, this suspenseful series features strong female characters, tension-filled plots, and historical authenticity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WISSummary: A merry Murdoch Christmas: At a charity gala, Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden find the host dead from a broken neck. Inspector Brackenreid suspects the culprit is the legendary Christmas creature Krampus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURSummary: Earth, 2084. Two global superpowers hover on the brink of war. When the TARDIS is forced to make an unplanned visit to Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find themselves accused of being enemy agents. Quickly embroiled in a deadly game of paranoid intrigue, it becomes clear that others on the base have sabotage and murder in mind. However, there is a greater threat to humankind: the...
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 DOCSummary: The eight season moves into the 1970s, with DCI George Gently facing retirement. In the opening episode Gently discovers the victim's wife was convicted of the murder eight years ago, he decides to re-open the case; a controversial move. But DI Bacchus opposes Gently's decision, not least because he worked as a DS on the original investigation and putting mentor and protégé at complete odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GEOSummary: The world's quirkiest crime-solving antiques hero is back! Much to Lovejoy's annoyance, he's not the only one on a never-ending quest for wealth and valuables. However, while he proves unstoppable in the face of sinister Italians, vengeful customers and even Eric's vintage motorbikes, can he manage to escape the snares of love?
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 LOVSummary: For starters, Annie is trapped in Purgatory and fears she will be condemned to Hell until Mitchell crosses into the afterlife to save her. And George and Nina battle challenges of their own when they conceive a baby while transformed as werewolves. Meanwhile, having committed the Box Tunnel massacre in Season 2, Mitchell finds the net closing in on him from this world and the nrxt. And with a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEISummary: This fantasy series tells the alternative history of 19th-century England, where magic once existed and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange, who pit their skills against the might of Napoleon, the mythical Raven King and death. The clash between these two British magicians is about to become a dangerous duel of the dark arts where, in the midst of the Napoleonic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The fortunes of the MacDonalds have always been up and down, but now Paul, Archie's brother, is newly installed as master of Glenbogle. Can this town come to terms with the new monarch?"
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONSummary: Intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, is tasked by the army to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The group was left reeling after the shocking death of Danny at the hands of hostage-takers as the last season concluded. Now Adam, Harry, Ruth, Fiona and rising star Zafar set out to become even stronger in their battle to safeguard the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007