Harriet Walter
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in.
Publisher
AMC Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and...
10) Burial
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the last days of WWII, a band of Allied soldiers trafficking Hitler's remains out of Germany are ambushed by Nazi Wehrwolf fighters. One female spy is determined to lead the surviving soldiers in a last stand to ensure the cargo doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Developed for British television, this series is now available to American audiences for the first time through this DVD set. Contains episodes depicting crimes and cases unique to the British legal system. Domestic and international fans alike will be able to watch the police Detective Sergeants of the Major Investigations unit track criminals while the Crown Prosecution Service tries each case.
13) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
14) Gaudy night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction...
15) Have his carcase
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or...
16) Strong poison
Series
Dorothy L. Sayers mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
17) Hard times
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
18) The Governess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young woman loses her identity and her innocence in an all-consuming love affair.
20) Hard times
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
Ã2009.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...