Ian McKellen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A love letter to all things great and British from their castles, Shakespeare, aristocrats and classic cars to quirky traditions and self-deprecating sense of humor. Did you know that the Queen’s Buckingham Palace isn’t even the largest in England or that the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland is based on a real person? There’s so much to discover. Welcome to being QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH.
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (142 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine.
3) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with early dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.
4) Cats
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-shattering stage musical into a breakthrough cinematic event. The film reimagines the musical for a new generation with spectacular production design, state-of-the-art technology, and dance styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary, hip-hop to jazz, street dance to tap. One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, it won seven Tony Awards, including...
5) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sherlock Holmes has one last case to solve that has haunted him for fifty years. Now he must quietly slip out of retirement and pay a secret visit to his past in order to determine the future, in this intriguing and thoughtful suspense-thriller.
7) On Broadway
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences prepare for the return of live theater after an unprecedented absence of 18 months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway came back from the brink. ON BROADWAY shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Interviews...
8) Muse of Fire
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrman, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare’s home in...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (250 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Fellowship divides to conquer, as Frodo and Sam, with the help and hindrance of Gollum, continue on their way to Mount Doom. Gandalf and Pippin ride to Minas Tirith to help defend Gondor, while Merry remains with Eowyn and the other Rohan fighters. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli seek aid from those that live in the Cursed Mountains. All these battles have one ultimate goal in mind: to distract the Eye of Sauron and buy Frodo as much time as possible...
10) Bent
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1930s Berlin, Max (Clive Owen) sleeps with German officer (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), only to see him killed by his fellow Nazis the next morning. Refusing an offer of new papers from his Uncle Freddie (Ian McKellan) for fear of leaving his boyfriend Rudy behind, Max and Rudy are found by the Gestapo, to whom Max lies about his homosexuality and his relationship with Rudy. Bound for the Dachau concentration camp, Max will have to reckon with his identity,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (144 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD video
Description
The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
13) The good liar
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
14) X-Men
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Outcasts since birth, the X-Men are the next step of human evolution. Born with unique genetic mutations that give them extraordinary powers, they battle on the side of good. Now they must use their powers to save the people that fear them.
15) The critic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.
16) Flushed away
Pub. Date
2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...
19) X2: X-Men united
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the X-Men try to find a mutant that has attempted to assassinate the President, the Academy is attacked by military forces. In the aftermath they join forces with Magneto and uncover a plot to murder all mutants on Earth.
Pub. Date
Ã2002
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs ( 228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This epic version of Tolkien's classic work, tells the tale of Frodo, a simple hobbit, who must leave his home in Hobbiton, and brave great dangers in a quest to destroy the legendary One Ring. Along the way he is aided by a fellowship of stalwart companions, including the wizard Gandalf, the mysterious Strider, and his hobbit friends, Sam, Merry and Pippin.