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1) Flambards
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at 'Flambards', a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
5) Buddenbrooks
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The sweeping tale of the rise and fall of a wealthy German merchant family, Buddenbrooks dramatizes the conflict between family loyalty and personal freedom. This stimulating adaptation of Thomas Mann's most famous work is brought to life with magnificent costumes and unforgettable performances.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
There was a time when two-ton predatory fish came on land, along with 26-foot sea scorpions. State-of-the-art digital technology breathes life into these creatures that dominated earth for 250 million years. Final program in the Walking with...Series.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tale of a neurotic, class-conscious doctor saddled with a nagging wife and the scheme he devises to do away with her. Gossip about his wife's death is rife and it seems to the Dr. that the only way to make the gossip stop is to dispose of the gossipers.
14) Gormenghast
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed in thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. With the birth of a new heir, Titus Groan, Steerpike begins his ruthless ascent to power. As he charms, outwits and terrorizes the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young timid Earl of Groan, stands in Steerpike's way.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009, [2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
The River Po dominates the region of Ferrara with its seasons, its power and its mystery. It nourishes the close-knit fishing communities who live on its banks, and it also hides their secrets. Secrets that are sometimes uncovered by people like police inspector Franco Soneri.
17) The 10th kingdom
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
At the edge of the mortal world lies a mystical vortex leading to the Nine Kingdoms, a fantastic land where fairy tales are reinvented--and not with happily-ever-after endings. An evil queen has doomed Prince Wendell to life as a dog. His quest to recapture the throne leads him through a portal to the mythical Tenth Kingdom--Central Park! With the help of ordinary mortals Virginia and Tony, he battles evil in a parallel universe of trolls, goblins...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.
19) Country matters
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of short stories by A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates. Set against the English countryside during the post-World War I period. Reveals the timeless and constant qualities of the British landscape and its people.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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.
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