Kim Cattrall
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Shakespeare Uncovered volume 5
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English
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Cattrall has played Cleopatra twice. Now she explores the real character of the great Queen of Egypt, and travels to Rome, ironically Marc Antony's city, in her quest to find out more about the historical Cleopatra. She also meets with her director, Dame Janet Suzman, who herself made an iconic Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973. Together they begin to uncover the truth behind this astonishing middle-aged love story. Antony and Cleopatra...
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
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English
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After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. Ironically, it is Admiral James T. Kirk who is the first emissary to broker that peace. Yet all hope is virtually lost when the U.S.S. Enterprise and crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
When Captain Kirk and his crew find...
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the end, makes Shakespeare so great?
10) My boy Jack
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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At age seventeen, Kipling's son, like most of his generation, is swept up in the enthusiasm to fight the Germans. Jack is cripplingly short-sighted and the army has rejected him twice. Kipling persuades Lord Roberts to get Jack a commission in the Irish guards.
After their son Jack is declared missing in action in World War I, Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for him while struggling to deal with their feelings over Jack's entrance into the army....
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6 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Carrie continues her romance with a Russian artist, a flippantly arrogant man who's been around the block, but he is able to supply Carrie's needed desire for magic. Miranda has settled down with Steve, but there is more that will change with her, including her address. Charlotte continues to make baby plans now that the husband slot is filled quite nicely. Samantha brings a good sense of drama to the show with a breast-cancer scare. In the final...
12) Sex and the city
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1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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We find Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda four years after the series ended.
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1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this sequel brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda come together to take another bite out of the Big Apple and beyond. What happens after you say 'I do?' Life is everything the ladies ever wished it would be, but it wouldn't be Sex and the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.
15) About my father
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Carrie and Miranda wrestle with their single lifestyles. Miranda has new baby Brady and single motherhood, while Carrie finds herself in the world of publishing as the author of a real-life book of her columns. Charlotte wonders if she'll ever find another man, while Samantha finally gets rid of the one that had been vexing her far too much. From Samantha's anointment as the "Michiko Kakutani of vibrators" to Carrie's stressful book launch party,...
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When an heiress (Kim Cattrall, Sex and the City) is brutally murdered, all the evidence points to her young lover (Billy Howle, On Chesil Beach), but he insists to his solicitor (Toby Jones, Detectorists) that his wife (Andrea Riseborough, Bloodline) can prove his innocence in this "thrilling" (EW.com) Agatha Christie adaptation.
18) The ghost writer
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
19) Split Second
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English
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In a futuristic London where rising sea levels have placed large areas of the city under water, a burned out cop is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders which point to a non-human killer.
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English
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Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, and Jennifer Love Hewitt star in this re-imagining of Walter Huston's The Devil and Daniel Webster - this time concerning a struggling writer who sells his soul to Old Scratch (Hewitt) in a desperate bid to find fame and fortune on the literary circuit.
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