Kenneth Branagh
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Description
Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse. A police leak of the wife's dying words leads to an outbreak of racist reprisals in Ystad. The fallout from the case leads Wallander to doubt everything, including his abilities as a police officer.
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Series
Wallander volume 3
Description
An elderly bird watcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned and brutal murder. In an apparently unconnected case a local man disappears and Wallander gets too close to one of the suspects. Wallander believes he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 2
Description
Kurt Wallander is contacted by an old friend who is certain his father has been murdered. Wallander refuses to get involved as he is suspended from the police, but subsequent events convince him that there is more to the case.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Description
With the promise of a new start Kurt Wallander moves into a new home with his girlfriend Vanja. Their happiness is cut short when Wallander's dog unearths a skeleton buried in his garden. The body is of a murdered girl, dead for over ten years. Is this fate or coincidence?
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Description
Anna, a friend of Wallander's daughter, turns up out of the blue looking for help. When she disappears, Wallander is forced to break the silence with his daughter Linda. The investigations lead Wallander to a Christian cult, with a vendetta against modern society.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Description
Hakon von Enke, a retired high-ranking Swedish naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest one morning. Hakon is Linda's father-in-law so when Wallander is approached by his distressed daughter, he can't help but investigate further.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Description
Wallander is attending a police conference in Cape Town when he's asked by the South African police to help with the case of Inga Hedeman, a Swedish voluntary worker in the townships who's been missing for ten days. A combination of gut instinct and inspired police work lead Wallander first to a deserted farmhouse where he finds evidence of Inga's presence and a severed finger...
Author
Series
Wallander volume 2
Description
The search for an elderly woman who has recently gone missing from an old people's home, leads to the discovery of another murdered woman.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 2
Description
Two bodies wash ashore on a life raft in Ystad. When the dead men are identified as Eastern European criminals a Rigan police detective, Karlis Liepa, joins Wallander in Sweden to investigate. However on his return to Riga, Karlis is murdered and Wallander feels it's his duty to find out why.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 564 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Collector's set explores the full spectrum of prehistoric life, from the rise of monsters millions of years ago to the reign of dinosaurs and our own evolutionary predecessors. Includes 9 hours of programming plus almost 7 hours of special features.
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this Oscar-nominated short, a man seals himself off in 17th Century plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection. When a little girl seeks his help his life is turned upside down.
12) Hamlet
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (242 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Kenneth Branagh leads an all-star cast in this full-length production of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, the story of Danish prince Hamlet.
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realises that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
14) Thor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero. Includes commentary, featurettes, trailers, and deleted scenes.
15) Valkyrie
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Tom Cruise stars as the leader of a group of German officers who hatched a plot to assassinate Hitler. The operation was code-named VALKYRIE, for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced...
16) Wallander: 01
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An assistant on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL documents the week he spent befriending Marilyn Monroe (Williams) and helping her escape the pressures of fame and Hollywood.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls embark on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent to lead them home. Rabbit-Proof Fence captures their universally touching plight and...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes...