BBC Video (Firm)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 357 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Although they are total opposites, Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a blowhard old-school detective and his by-the-book partner, Peter Pascoe, form an unbeatable crime-stopping team. Season eight features four intriguing new cases.
4) Aftermath
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter, desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for her career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquility of England's Yorkshire Dales provides a striking and contrasting backdrop...
Pub. Date
2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The coronation of Elizabeth II was an enormous logistical operation, and an event of huge cultural significance. Now, using hitherto unseen archives and with co-operation of the Palace, the diaries and papers of those at the heart of the planning are opened up to reveal the behind the scenes story of the Coronation.
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Open ocean - "In the immense space of the open ocean the sea bed is a staggering five miles below the suface and the nearest island is over 300 miles away. Yet here live many of the mosr spectacular predators in the ocean. Marvel as you experience ruthless and beautiful battles between hunter and prey." The Deep - "A place of mountain ranges, perpetual night, pressure extremes and cold... and the weirdest life forms on our planet. Dive to the depths...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andy Dalziel and sidekick Peter Pascoe are back to solve more murder mysteries in this season of Dalziel and Pascoe. The riveting combination of Dalziel's old-style policing and Pascoe's university-educated new man approach has made them a worldwide hit. Based on the award-winning novels of top crime-writer Reginald Hill.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 fiancâe. 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?
10) Silk: Series 1
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx 351 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Martha Costello is a brilliant, passionate defense barrister with a reputation for defending the poor and downtrodden. She is about to embark on the next step of her career and apply to be a member of the highly prestigious Queen's Counsel. But she's not the only one at her chambers applying. Joining Martha is Clive Reader - charming and ruthless, funny, gifted, and dangerous. Only one is likely to be made QC, so how they perform in court is vital,...
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 325 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the story of the Celts from their earliest roots through the flowering of their culture and their enduring heritage today. Includes reconstructions of iron-age villages, dramatizations of major historical events and visits to modern Celtic lands.
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's famous 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 a political...
13) Top of the lake
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jonathan, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is the ungainly, neglected eldest son of a family living in the Black Country. His younger brother Harold is everything he is not. Despite the favoritism shown to Harold, the two boys build a close friendship that lasts a lifetime and ends in tragedy.
18) Spies of Warsaw
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known...
20) Silk: Series 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Martha Costello (Maxine Peake, The Village) returns to Shoe Lane Chambers having earned "silk." Now as a new member of the Queen's Counsel, Martha finds the stakes higher than ever as she faces Shoe Lane's newest prosecution barrister. As the pressure rises, so does the romantic tension between her and fellow barrister, Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones, MI5). Meanwhile, Senior Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke, Inspector Lewis) turns to an unsavory solicitor...