Miranda Richardson
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 3
Language
English
Description
The police interrogate Linda about her involvement in Micky's death. After arguing with the mother of Tom's son, Gail deals with her own mother's increasingly bad dementia and considers putting her into a home.
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 6
Language
English
Description
The girlfriends travel to Spain to identify Micky's body, and Linda makes a shocking confession to Gail and Sue. When an unexpected turn of events threatens to upend their lives, the women band together to devise a plan.
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 2
Language
English
Description
On Sue's birthday, detectives come to Linda with new information about her husband's disappearance, including evidence that Micky was on the phone with another woman when he went overboard.
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 4
Language
English
Description
The night before the hearing into Mickey's death, Gail walks in on a startling scene at Linda's house. Tom tries to bring his son back with his mother's help, and he also receives surprising news from Linda's daughter, Ruby.
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 1
Language
English
Description
Linda and Micky celebrate their anniversary on a cruise ship, but tragedy strikes when Mickey drinks too much. Meanwhile, Sue faces a crisis at work, and Gail's son, Tom, returns home from prison.
Author
Series
Girlfriends volume 5
Language
English
Description
Linda takes drastic action when a body turns up in Spain that could be Micky's. While pursuing a new business opportunity, Sue runs into John's wife and receives some bad news.
7) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. Fearful of repeating his deadly mistakes from World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli, exhausted by years of war, plagued by depression and obsessed with his historical destiny, Churchill is reluctant to embark on the large-scale campaign, one that the entire war effort hinges...
8) Stronger
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inspirational and heroic true-life story of Jeff Bauman, the man whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts all over the world.
9) Wah Wah
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ralph Compton (Nicolas Hoult) witnesses the disintegration of his parents’ marriage through adultery and alcohol set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland in 1969. When his father (Gabriel Byrne) remarries an American (Oscar-nominee Emily Watson), Ralph finds she is the only one who can truly understand his inner turmoil. Nominated for Best Actress (Emily Watson) and the Douglas Hickox Award at the **British Independent Film Awards**....
10) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009, c1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
12) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Deep in the passageways below the Paris Opera lives a lonely, talented, horribly disfigured man who revels in terrorizing the theater's employees as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. But when the masked Phantom sees young Christine Daaé, his heart melts. He secretly trains her, transforms her into a star ... and loves her. But when she cannot return his affection, as her heart already belongs to another, all the pain that the Phantom has held within is revealed...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring, action-packed epic of a small boy in a great war. That boy is Jim Graham a young Briton whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during WWII. Through his eyes we see the fascination and horror of war. And we see a child's hold onto childhood weaken as his struggle to survive grows fiercer.
15) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In remote Western Australia, two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline, the two men work side by side yet are worlds apart. When Les’s prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, Les opts for angry defiance....
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the world teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When a storm cuts them off from the mainland, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear: they are to be executed, one by one.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in.
18) Belle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
19) Merlin
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the classic tale of good and evil, the wise wizard Merlin recounts how he and Arthur fought to overcome wickedness and defeat Mab, the Queen of Darkness.
20) Tom & Viv
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.