British Broadcasting Corporation
Series
The Jon Pertwee years 1970-1974 volume story no. 52
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Exiled to Earth and now working for UNIT as their scientific advisor, the Doctor is summoned to an underground research center at Wenley Moor to investigate a series of inexplicable power losses. Initially suspecting sabotage, he soon discovers that the nearby cave system conceals a colony of an ancient race called the Silurians. Awaking from a hibernation which has lasted millions of years, they are now planning to reclaim the Earth from humankind....
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A dramatization by Shakespeare of King Henry VI's early days as king and the beginning of the long civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster. In the war with France, England is being driven off French soil. True to the popular view of the time, the French heroine Joan of Arc is characterized as a "minister of hell" and a wanton.
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
A doll's house: Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled...
7) Little Eyolf
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on 'responsibility, ' a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The intricate dance of life continues in this heartwarming drama series about two long-lost childhood sweethearts and the 60 years of baggage they bring to their better-late-than-never marriage. How will newlyweds Alan and navigate a startling revelation about Alan's past? And how will their adult daughters, Gillian and Caroline, deal with happiness and tragedy in their even more complicated lives?
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An enemy of the people: In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.
The wild duck: A family with a proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships. When...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order.
12) Aircraft
Series
BBC sound effects library volume 25
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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
2014
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedy drama and PBS favorite returns for a second season as the two childhood sweethearts work to finally make a life together. After Alan's near fatal heart attack, he and Celia decide to marry secretly, but how will their daughters react? Uptight Caroline and rebellious Gillian discover they actually quite like each other, but will the fact Gillian spent a night with Caroline's ex-husband John jeopardize the stepsisters' fledgling...
15) Dunkirk
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
17) Equations
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Armed with answers about equations with a single variable, secret agent Matt Mattics and his team set out to thwart Dr. Strangeglove, who has created a Number Juicer in space. The machine is designed to turn all of the world's numbers into tasty beverages. Will Mattics and his agents save the day?
18) Empire
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Written and presented by English broadcaster, journalist, and author Jeremy Paxman, this richly detailed documentary follows the rise of the British Empire. At its height, the small island nation ruled over a quarter of the world's population. Examining what is often considered a dark stain on British history, it shows how greed and a lust for power marginalized numerous groups across the empire's vast expanse.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Season Five sees the bubbly Sky, the Starchild given to Sarah Jane by the Doctor to look after, settle into Bannerman Road and discover she has telekinetic powers--although she has no idea how to use them! Her loveable enthusiasm and zest for life combined with her natural curiosity gives Sarah Jane more than one heart-stopping moment. A fast and funny mix of action, drama and special effects, The Sarah Jane Adventures grip young audiences across...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missiong twin Helena and an ailing Cosima serches for the key to the synthetic sequences that may keep them all alive. How far are they willing to go, and who can they really trust?