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Pub. Date
2014
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years later, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of decadence. Mr. Selfridge now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the reappearance of her old...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (555 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 of 3 videodiscs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide/Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (approximately 321 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Series
Call the midwife volume Season 3
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Original UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the tides of change sweeping through Downton, Rose's continued...
11) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c1977
Edition
30th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1919, WWI has just ended, and Harry Selfridge, like many Londoners, is struggling with loss. After the death of his beloved Rose, he is making costly business mistakes. His empire is weakened, and he is vulnerable to his old enemy Lord Loxley. Despite heartbreak and sorrow all around, the world goes on, and new characters breathe life back into the famous department store.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Original UK ed.
Physical Desc
3 digital videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr. Selfridge by author Lindy Woodhead.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
disc 3 of 3 videodiscs (approximately 182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in the acclaimed modern retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic stories. But what if this wasn't the modern day? What if it was the late Victorian period? What if the world's most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock-coats? Welcome to...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat after an attempt to reunite with his long lost daughter. But it's no longer the safe haven he left behind: Danny has been transferred to Melbourne, replaced by a new Senior Constable who seems hell bent on making Blake's job as police surgeon as difficult as possible. Blake's old nemesis Patrick Tyneman has called in the help of some powerful men to keep an eye on Blake. And of course there are the strange and...