John Sessions
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wild Scottish island provides the backdrop for this tense drama of a stormy marriage between an authoritarian minister and his mysterious wife whose lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival of a delinquent into their home.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the stunning landscapes of Scotland's iconic Loch Ness, local detective sergeant, Annie Redford finds herself in the midst of her first murder investigation; DCI Lauren Quigley is called in to lead the investigation, joined by forensic psychologist Blake Albrighton who believes there is more to the murder than initially meets the eye. Grief, terror, and suspicion soon shatter the town's normality.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
6) Denial
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased.
10) Henry V
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Prince Hal" has ascended to the throne of England. He proceeds to assert his hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathers an army and embarks on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs--the bloody Battle of Agincourt--and forever change the face of Europe. King Henry V unites his people, deals justly with traitors, leads his soldiers to victory, and in the end ensures the peace by marrying the French princess...
11) Made in Dagenham
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally.
12) The iron lady
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
13) Loving Vincent
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.
14) Filth
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.