British Broadcasting Corporation
41) Snow babies
Publisher
[BBC?]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Stunning wildlife footage provides an intimate and playful look at the first year of adorable baby animals and their families, including arctic wolves, snow monkeys, reindeers, otters, polar bears, and more.
Language
English
Description
Independent Elizabeth Bennet is determined that she will wed only for love. Her parents have five unmarried daughters for whom the mother is determined to find advantageous marriages. The wealthy Mr. Bingley, his friend, the mysterious and proud Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Wickham, a charming, but "scandalous cad," come to visit the countryside and become interested in three of the Bennet daughters.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Emmy-winning series is the definitive natural history of the world's oceans exploring everything from the popular shores and teeming shallows to the mysterious ocean depths. It's a journey that gets stranger and more awe-inspiring as it goes along. Over three hours of bonus content.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas. The Importance of Being Earnest: "Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary brother,...
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2001]
Language
English
Description
Claudio and Hero are engaged, but the jealous Don John tries to thwart the wedding by denouncing Hero as unchaste. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick, who scorn each other, become betrothed as a result of the schemes of their friends.
48) The last enemy
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
49) Life
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; Burbank CA
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, with breathtaking new high definition filming techniques developed since Planet Earth, Life presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, 54 of which have never been filmed before."--Container.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After 9/11, after Katrina, Enron and Baghdad, the robustness of American optimism is struggling to reassert itself against the sobering reality of military frustration and domestic anxieties. This is an America grappling with an un-American sense of its own limits. Turning to fascinating moments in American history to understand the present, connecting legendary presences such as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Ford, and others with contemporary soldiers,...
Publisher
BBC Video
Language
English
Description
It's veuve bourbs all round, sweeties! The doyenes of PR and fashion are back! Five years have gone by, Edina has a new TV production company, Patsy's been promoted and they're simply more fabulous than ever! Six new episodes of the television series. Parralox: Fame at last darling! Edina's due to appear on Richard and Judy in the morning and an invitation to Trudi and Sting's can't be far behind. She'd better iron out those wrinkles - luckily, Patsy...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistable. Looks at 4,000 species, including ones that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth. Examine how their adaptations for finding food have had an effect on the way they mate, socialize, mate and breed.
60) The crucible
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...