British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. In A very merry Hyacinth, Hyacinth roars into the Christmas season and eventually ends up kissing a most unexpected partner under the mistletoe. In Sea fever, Hyacinth and Richard go on a holiday cruise on the QE2. In Angel Gabriel blue, Hyacinth is busy planning a new kitchen while trying to deal with the fact that someone who...
47) The Cazalets
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Three generations of the Gazalet family in the shadows of WWII.
49) Barnum
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
This circus musical traces the career of P.T. Barnum, the World's Greatest Showman, from his humble beginnings as a promoter of sideshows, to his great museum in New York, and the co-founding of the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she₂s just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Inspector George Gently is a by-the-book cop from London now working in the North East of England. With the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain, the former Scotland Yard detective finds that crime occurs here the same as anywhere else. Along with his cocky young sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus, the two investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised...
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all....
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 3
Pub. Date
c2000 1997
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program five introduces the discover of black holes. Program six synopsizes the last 100 years of astronomy.
57) Straw dogs
Series
The Criterion collection volume 182
Description
"In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's...
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 2
Pub. Date
c2000 1997
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program three features the development of the various materials from which matter is created. Program four covers the discovery of "dark matter" which fills the space between stars and galaxies.
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 1
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program one presents the history of theories on the universe as it is known today. Program two delves into the beginning of the universe.
60) Copenhagen
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.