Wendy Hiller
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 232 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne leaves Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe's proposal of marriage for a teaching position. When she returns, she finds Gilbert ill with a scarlet fever and is forced to re-evaluate her true feelings for him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1051
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
4) Making love
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married couple has to come to terms when the husband finds himself falling in love with another man.
7) Richard II
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's historical play about the dynastic struggle between Richard II and Henry Bolingboke (later Henry IV).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, who butted heads with the king when he wanted to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have a difference in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the crack...
11) Pygmalion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cranky professor takes a bet that he can turn flower-seller Eliza Doolittle into a 'proper lady' in no time.
12) The elephant man
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity.
14) Separate tables
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the Beauregard Hotel, all the eccentric guests feel lonely. In one emotional evening, four of them will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
17) The borrowers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (735 min.) : sound, b & w and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eight movies of classic stories for family viewing.