Helen Mirren
Author
Language
English
Description
The Oscar® - winning Actress Helen Mirren retraces the life of Anne through the pages of her diary, and that of 5 other women who, as children and adolescents, were also deported to concentration camps but survived the Shoah. Off "the set", a young girl, talking to her peers using social media, will lead us through Anne Frank's short life and her feelings. In the documentary we also hear the voices of Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, historian and professor...
3) The Door
Author
Language
English
Description
Emerence, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerence to disclose details of her traumatising past, which will bond the two women forever.
4) Love Ranch
Author
Language
English
Description
Two cynical grifters get rich owning a Nevada brothel, but when an Argentine fighter arrives, a love triangle erupts with murderous results.
6) Golda
Author
Language
English
Description
Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel's complete destruction, must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber), with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is back, and is assigned the murder of a young black woman. Among her many problems are the pressure for a quick resolution to avoid charges of racism, the political disapproval of her colleagues and the reappearance of a former lover.
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 207 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Tennison seizes the opportunity to head a murder investigation -- something she should have done long ago, had she not been passed over by her male superiors time and again. With a suspect already identified and her own team openly hostile, she uncovers errors and conflicting facts that point to a coverup within the force."--Container.
11) 2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American and Soviet astronauts go to Jupiter in an attempt to solve the puzzle of the original Discovery flight made in 2001.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some, Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the late eighteenth century, King George suddenly takes ill in both his body and his head. This starts a round of backstabbing in the English court, as his son, the Prince of Wales, tries to take the throne for himself.
14) The clearing
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wayne and Eileen have raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. When Wayne is kidnapped by ordinary guy Arnold Mack and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned upside down. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents and their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
16) The Queen
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways...
18) Winchester
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
19) Anna
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
20) As you like it
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's comedy about all kinds of love--physical and intellectual, sentimental and cynical, enduring love between friends, and romantic love at first sight.