Summary: Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MR.

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mr. 2015

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Rome is a city divided, nobility and common-people locked in mutual suspicion. Coriolanus is Rome's greatest soldier, but his proud refusal to accommodate himself to the demands of the plebeians leads to banishment and death--Container.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHA

Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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

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 FOY

Summary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: "Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' ... is a feared and revered Roman general, suddenly pitted against his own city and fellow citizens. Rebelling against the power-hungry designs of his manipulative mother ... and rejected by his own people, Coriolanus incites a riot that expels him from Rome. The banished hero joins forces with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius ... to extract his revenge and determine...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA COR

Summary: Jimmy Rose is a career criminal newly free after twelve years in prison. Greeted with cold disdain from his wife, Jackie, Jimmy decides to stick to the terms of his parole: hold down a job and stay right in the eyes of the law. But when he finds out that his beloved granddaughter, Ellie, ran away and is now a drug addict, Jimmy will risk everything to bring her home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAY