Acorn Media (Firm)
61) Jericho
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Raine stars as Annie Quaintain, a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
Follows the lives of the people in Jericho, an 1870s shanty town in the Yorkshire Dales built...
62) Vexed: Series 1
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases. Includes three episodes.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 15 3/4 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired English army officer becomes Resident Magistrate in 1900s West Ireland, attempting to befriend and bestow order on his eccentric community. Living in a ramshackle country house, Major Yeates strives to gain acceptance while at the same time fulfilling his mission to uphold the law.
64) Selling Hitler
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (256 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of one of the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, and how they turned out to be fake. Includes five episodes and background on the aftermath of the Hitler Diaries.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 829 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final episodes follow the indomitable heroine through the turmoil and terror of World War I to the 1920s. Based on a true story of Rosa Lewis, a culinary genius and the owner of London's Cavendish Hotel.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 232 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (17 pages)
Language
English
Description
In this landmark series of films, University of Oxford Professor Marcus du Sautoy escorts viewers through the history of this most important of all intellectual disciplines. In a journey that takes him through the ages and around the world, he examines the development of key mathematical ideas and shows how, in a multitude of surprising ways, mathematical ideas underpin the science, technology, and culture that shape our world.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated with his daily commute and clients who don't pay their bills, accountant William Fields accepts a job in France. William and Hester dust off their phrase books, pluck up their courage and soon discover there's more than the Channel separating the English from the French.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (approximately 16 1/2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes threaten everything she has worked for.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 26
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The idyllic villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four feature-length mysteries from the perennially popular British series.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Milbury is a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle. Astrophysicist Adam Brake and his teenage son, Matthew, arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways that they never expected. The two will have to understand the druid-inspired Rafael Hendrick and his power over the village's trancelike 'happy ones.'
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle investigates crimes in the English countryside...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Top British spy Sylvia Fox is in Italy for her niece's wedding when the groom goes missing, leaving a dead body behind him. Sylvia solves the mystery and falls in love with Italy, and with a crumbling old house on a hillside. Disillusioned with her job and longing to reconnect with her family, Sylvia decides to stay on and start a new life in the little town of Panicale. But trouble has a habit of seeking Sylvia out and she finds herself tackling...
77) Vera: Set 2
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator -- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective, is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 792 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the shocking cliffhanger last season, Station House Number Four attempts to clear Murdoch's name after he is arrested for murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell and Theodore Roosevelt.