Vanessa Redgrave
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Get ready for a mystery adventure like no other when Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The world's two greatest masters in the art of detection, Sherlock Holmes and SIgmund Freud, join forces for the first time with the persistence of Dr. Watson, which leads to a thrilling investigation in a kidnapping case.
2) Sea Sorrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary focusing on the present and past history of refugees in Europe. Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave tells her own story beginning as a two-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of World War Two; later as a student volunteer helping Hungarian refugees; and concluding with her return to Lebanon to visit Palestinian three-year olds in a refugee camp nursery school. SEA SORROW marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
MRS LOWRY AND SON tells the story of how famed British artist L.S. Lowry lived all of his life with his overbearing mother, a deterring voice as he pursued his artistic ambition. However, a rent collector by day, Lowry took art classes in the evening and painted into the early hours to become one of the most significant artists of the 20th Century.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an suitor from 33 years ago. Starring Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in Venice in the late 19th century and based on Henry James' eponymous novella, THE ASPERN PAPERS is a story of obsession, grandeur lost, and dreams of Byronic adventures. Ambitious editor Morton Vint (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is fascinated by the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern and by his icon's short and wildly romantic life. Having traveled from America to Venice, he is determined to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful lover...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 547 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (555 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and in the process forms a desire to build bridges with his...
9) Howards End
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (142 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved...
10) Secret Scripture
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
11) The Bostonians
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose McNulty, a once vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Grene arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Rose, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1966.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Morgan Delt (David Warner) is a loving man. He is an artist, fond of flowers, animals and children. But like his jungle hero, the male gorilla, he becomes formidable when in danger. As his wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave) decides to divorce him in order to marry a more sensible man, Morgan retaliates by acting out his wildest fantasies. Clad in a hired gorilla costume, he attempts to recapture the affections of his long-suffering wife. Nominated for...
16) Evening
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A dying woman shares with her two daughters a 50-year-old secret from her past, when she met her true love and learned of how choices she made led to unspeakable joys and unbearable tragedies. Bonus features include deleted scenes and featurettes.
...clear-eyed without being clinical, reflective but never maudlin.--Chicago Tribune
...powerful...--San Francisco Chronicle
...poignant...--Variety
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 570 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 355 min.) : 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.