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Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can't help but question his place in the world. Mary is...
Series
Description
"This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious group led by the enigmatic High Sparrow, while Jamie embarks...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
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
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In the third season of the HBO hit drama series Game of Thrones, the Lannisters barely hold on to the throne after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon, while stirrings in the north threaten to alter the overall balance of power. Robb Stark, King in the North, faces major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters while beyond the Wall, Mance Rayder and his huge army of wildlings continue their inexorable march...
Formats
Description
Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Stunning gardens provide the backdrop for this British mystery series. From their former careers as a university plant biologist and a police officer, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, professional gardeners and amateur sleuths, bring unique investigative talents to their horticultural and human mysteries. Locations include manor houses in the English countryside, London's Kew Gardens and Regent's Park, the French Riviera, Italy's Ligurian coast, a...
10) Foyle's war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
English Detective Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the home front while he reluctantly sits out on World War II.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Go behind the curtain to look at the stars, story, and history of the musical sensation, Hamilton. Exclusive interviews and rare footage of Lin-Manuel Miranda and members of the cast revealing the extraordinary story of the man, the music, the show, and the phenomenon that has inspired the world.
Author
Publisher
Citizen Reader Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Isn't Downton Abbey better when you watch it with a friend? This book is every Anglophile's companion guide to the best British television to watch right now. No more wandering through your streaming services and guessing about which UK series you'd like best. In this guide you'll find information on more than 100 of your soon-to-be-favorite programs, including: how long it will take you to bingewatch each one, your favorite Brit actors and creators...
Author
Description
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by its evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama, and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the wonderfully aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age. Includes in-depth interviews with...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
From pole to pole: This introduction to the BBC television series looks at the planet as a whole and considers the key factors that have shaped its natural history. Without fresh water there is no life on land, while the sun dominates the lives of all animals and plants on earth and defines their habitats.
Mountains: This tour of Earth's mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A former Scotland Yard sleuth now tracking murders in Britain?s North Country, George Gently (Tony nominee Martin Shaw) is an old-time copper in the rapidly changing 1960s. In these two feature-length mysteries, Gentry and Bacchus investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised on the brink of an exciting new chapter in her life.
Series
Sherlock volume 1
Publisher
2 Entertain Video Limited
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and Watson navigate a maze of cryptic clues...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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