Alun Armstrong
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
With old-school detective work and a little state-of-the-art forensics, the veterans unearth a range of baffling crimes, including the murder of a lawyer, a racially motivated attack on an Asian bride, and a mysterious unidentified human torso. Includes the complete 8-episode second season
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
At the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, three former detectives and their lovely, ambitious boss tackle cases abandoned by the metropolitan police. Although their crime -solving skills are top-notch, the detectives each have their fair share of personal demons.
3) Dark angel
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children.
4) Van Helsing
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Legendary 19th-century monster hunter Van Helsing is sent to mysterious Transylvania to battle the evil Dracula is trying to release with the unwilling help of Frankestein's monster and a wolf-man
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
At the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, three former detectives and their lovely, ambitious boss tackle cases abandoned by the metropolitan police. Although their crime-solving skills are top-notch, the detectives each have their fair share of personal demons.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due...
7) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
10) Little Dorrit
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum and resurrected ; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
14) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
New Tricks follows a team of semi-retired and somewhat curmudgeonly detectives as they reinvestigate cold cases. The fifth season returns with more sharp writing, dry humor, and engrossing mysteries. Guest stars include Claire Bloom, James Fox, David Troughton, and Ronald Pickup. Includes bonus behind-the-scenes featurette
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast.