Summary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: Meet Walter Tull, the Jackie Robinson of professional English football before World War I, and survivor of the worst racial slurs his opponents can hurl at him. When the game turns to war in 1914 and the playing field to the Battle of Somme, Tull makes history again as the first mixed-race officer in the British Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALSummary: 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 CASSummary: 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 CLASummary: "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 LADSummary: 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 SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SMACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMASummary: Political corruption, corporate intrigue, and sex scandal emerge when ambitious journalists delve into the seemingly unrelated deaths of a politician's assistant and a teen drug dealer.
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 STAQueen 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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Place a hold to request this item.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
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADASummary: Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: 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 SHASummary: It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment of Sherwood Foresters discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea: he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIPSummary: R.D. Blackmore's classic tale of forbidden love, revenge, and adventure in lawless 17th century England is one of the greatest love stories ever told. Lavish costumes, dazzling scenery, and a stellar supporting cast round out this splendid version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUSummary: London attorney Steven Vey has a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, and money to burn. To top it off, he's about to be named Britain's youngest-ever judge. But one night a celebration with his pretty secretary, Nicky, goes too far. He calls it a drunken indiscretion; she calls it rape. Meanwhile, Birmingham punk Eddy Doyle is fresh out of prison with no prospects. After learning that the...
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 GUISummary: His real name: Sir Percy Blakeney. His calling: rescuing French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Anthony Andrews is the Scarlet Pimpernel, master of disguises and formidable swordsman, in this swashbuckling story based on Baroness Orczy's classic novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCASummary: 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 BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSummary: Attorney Claire Darrow defends an old colleague of her mother's for murder. Things get complex when Claire's romantic interest, Miles, is named as prosecuting attorney on the case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2020