Michael Gambon
Author
Language
English
Description
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's (Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten) epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and, above all, ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Reaching back to the dawn of film in London at the start of the 20th century,...
2) Paddington
Publisher
Starz Originals
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined. Then he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck that says 'Please look after this bear. Thank you,' and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside of Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned.
4) Quartet
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
5) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of...
6) Gosford Park
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2001, Robert Altman took the unexpected step into Agatha Christie territory with Gosford Park, a murder-mystery whodunit set in an English country house starring a host of British acting greats and with an Oscar winning screenplay by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. It would become a huge success with audiences and critics alike.
7) Judy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They are not bad girls; they are just behaving that way! Best friends take on low-life thieves in this hilarious high-energy action-comedy. It all starts when Shannon, a nurse at a London emergency room, and Frances, a struggling American actor, overhear bank robbers on a radio scanner making off with a fortune. They make contact and demand a cut at the loot.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
10) Cordelia
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and others.
11) The last witness
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist risks his life to uncover a refugee's connection to the British government's cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.
12) Amazing grace
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th century, and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
The film is inspiring.--Chicago Sun-Times
A workmanlike piece of storytelling...--TV Guide
Compelling and highly informative. --New York Daily News
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
...a whip-smart, slam-bang piece of entertainment...--New York Post
...proof that authentic movie excitement is its own form...
14) Dad's army
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1944 and WWII is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. Morale in the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is low, so they make their new mission to revive spirits, until glamorous journalist Rose arrives to write about their exploits.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
c2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 2-part miniseries, based on the bestselling novel by William Boyd. Enter a cloak and dagger world where everyone and everything is under suspicion. Haunted by the death of her brother at the hands of fascist thugs, Russian m̌igr Ěva Delectorskaya is recruited to be a British secret agent by the shadowy figure, Lucas Romer. After proving her merit in the field, she is sent on the most dangerous mission of her life. She must use any means necessary...
16) Paddington
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined; until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says Please look after this bear. Thank you, and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum...
17) Victoria & Abdul
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pagford is a seemingly idyllic English village with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey. Behind the pretty facade, however, is a town at war: rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils. Pagford is not what it first seems.