ROBERT HARDY
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The final installment of the heart-warming tale about Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, his wife Helen and his volatile but warm-hearted partner, Siegfried Farnon. Life at the small veterinary practice continues to challenge the partners, but through all the trials and tribulations, the social upheavals and the years gone by, friendship and family prove themselves as strong as ever.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Television series that follows the true-life adventures of veterinarian James Herriot. Set in the windswept dales of Yorkshire, England, the series perfectly captures the warm drawing room fires and freezing wintry barns of the English countryside of the '30s. While this remote area cannot remain untouched by the threat of impending war, there are still plenty of battles to be fought on the home front: on the farms, in the fields and hand-to-hand...
25) Northanger Abbey
Pub. Date
[1987] 2004.
Language
English
Description
Satire of the Gothic novel in which Austen's character Catherine Morland is simple and cheerful as she faces the difficulties of a six weeks' residence in Bath during the social season.
27) Edward the King
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
28) Middlemarch
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Dead man's eleven: Schock ripples across the village of Fletcher's Cross when a prominent businessman's trophy wife is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat. While the victim had no apparent enemies, her avaricious husband, Robert Cavendish, is hated by all. Death of a stranger: As the Upper Marshwood hunt heads off into the woods, a filthy tramp runs for cover, stumbles and falls into a pit screaming. This suspicious death, and the puzzling behavior...
31) Edward the King
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
He was the the eldest son of Queen Victoria who ruled Great Britain for more than half a century. When he ascended the throne after her death in 1901, he reigned for only nine years. Yet he was still as strong a symbol of the times as his mother had been.
32) Berserk
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Monica Rivers is the owner of a traveling circus that is plagued by a series of mysterious deaths. When a high-wire performer becomes the first victim, he is replaced by Frank Hawkins, an even more daring aerialist. But Frank's attentions to Monica make her business manager, Dorando, jealous. After Dorando becomes the brutal killer's next victim, Police Superintendent Brooks arrives at the scene. With motives such as jealousy and revenge, the mystery...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the 19th century, a depraved baron confronts a hereditary curse by imprisoning his two adult children in the family castle. But when a nearby village is plagued by a series of sex murders, the killings trigger a mass hysteria of profane rituals and sadistic desires. Can these 'demons' be destroyed by a power beyond madness or will a final onslaught of evil demand that blood have blood?
35) Elizabeth R
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A televised dramatization of the life of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn, presented in six acts. As a young woman, Elizabeth is faced with imprisonment and worse, but she prevails over vicious court intrigues and secures her claim to the throne. As Queen, she faces the continuing threat from Mary, Queen of Scots, an impending royal wedding that would unite England and France, and a palace insurrection involving a former court favorite....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"When An Age of Kings was first broadcast, it was the most conceptually ambitious Shakespeare project ever attempted for either film or television. Its fifteen parts encompassed Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, effectively presenting a chronological history of British royalty from 1377 to 1485. An age of kings' adapter Eric Crozier cut the text into schedule-friendly 60 and 75 minute episodes....
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his condierable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Second time around) The murder of a retired police commissioner and the theft of a chapter of his...