Company Pictures (Firm)
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an English family who move to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve and sort out the problems within the family itself. When the series begins, Danny Trevanion (a widower and vet in his early forties) is living in England with his seventeen-year-old daughter Rosie, Sarah (his wife of six months) and Sarah's two young children from her previous marriage. Family tensions are running high, but when Danny brings home a monkey...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (193 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her oldest son, Gertrude Morel pours all of her love and frustrated ambition into her relationship with he youngest son, Paul. Struggling to find his own way in the world, Paul is torn between putting his mother's wishes before his own and finding happiness on his own terms..
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gently evil: Called to a crime scene at a working-class boarding house, Gently and Bacchus find a woman horribly beaten to death, her eyes covered discreetly with a handkerchief. The victim also carried her daughter's birth certificate, with the name of the child's father crossed out and "satan" penciled in. Following this lead, Gently and Bacchus probe the twisted secrets of a family that seems to harbor pure evil.
Peace & love: When nuclear submarines...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (186 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The eight season moves into the 1970s, with DCI George Gently facing retirement. In the opening episode Gently discovers the victim's wife was convicted of the murder eight years ago, he decides to re-open the case; a controversial move. But DI Bacchus opposes Gently's decision, not least because he worked as a DS on the original investigation and putting mentor and protégé at complete odds.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edward, Prince of Wales, has a string of mistresses until he falls for American divorcee Wallis Simpson. When he becomes King of England, he must give her up, which divides him between the love for a woman and his duty to his country.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
8) New Worlds
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the tumultuous time of North American colonization, this gripping drama follows the lives of four young people: Abe Goffe, Beth Fanshawe, Ned Hawkins, and Hope Russell, as they fight for a better future in the wilderness of the New World and back home in England.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Actor Martin Shaw stars as the principled detective George Gently in these four feature-length mysteries. These dramas unfold against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain during the tumultuous 1960s. Based on the long-running series of books by Alan Hunter.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 455 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Englishman Danny Trevanion and his blended family have settled into their African home, running a game reserve and a veterinary practice. But for Danny and his wife, Sarah, life at Leopard's Den continues to present more challenges than expected" --Container.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two retired crooks return to England after 20 years of living in Spain off their ill-gotten gains. In this comedy-drama, the local pub manager persuades Maurice Riley and Syd Woolsey to come out of retirement.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (6 hr., 11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector George Gently in these feature-length mysteries set in the North East of England during the social upheaval of the 1960s. These episodes follow Gently and his partner as they solve four grisly murders.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha opens her own detective agency, but potential clients aren't exactly breaking down the door of her new office. In search of new business, Agatha and James visit Ivy Hall, a house said to be haunted since the English Civil War. Are the strange sounds and unexplained footsteps heard at night truly supernatural, or is someone trying to scare the obnoxious owner out of her home?
16) Morvern Callar
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (726 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village share the villagers' joys, and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season One, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for the first time, the rest of the world seems suddenly closer. Bert feels frustrated at being too young to fight in the Great War. Season Two, The 1920s: The local aristocrats plan to resume their...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster and she has been missing for eleven years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the small community.
19) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...