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1) Run & Jump
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After her husband suffers a debilitating stroke, a spirited Irish housewife struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. Help comes in the form of American doctor, whose research grant for documenting the family's recovery process takes care of finances but also requires that the straight-laced doctor live with the chaotic Casey family for two months.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Martha Costello is a brilliant, passionate defense barrister with a reputation for defending the poor and downtrodden. She is about to embark on the next step of her career and apply to be a member of the highly prestigious Queen's Counsel. But she's not the only one at her chambers applying. Joining Martha is Clive Reader - charming and ruthless, funny, gifted, and dangerous. Only one is likely to be made QC, so how they perform in court is vital,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
4) Gwen
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Gwen is a young girl whose life seems to be collapsing around her. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a group of angry villagers threatening to take her farm, Gwen must find the strength to guide her family through the darkness. But as a malevolent presence begins to take a grip of her home, it becomes apparent there is a greater evil that may be too strong to overcome.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Martha Costello (Maxine Peake, The Village) returns to Shoe Lane Chambers having earned "silk." Now as a new member of the Queen's Counsel, Martha finds the stakes higher than ever as she faces Shoe Lane's newest prosecution barrister. As the pressure rises, so does the romantic tension between her and fellow barrister, Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones, MI5). Meanwhile, Senior Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke, Inspector Lewis) turns to an unsavory solicitor...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village share the villagers' joys, and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season One, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for the first time, the rest of the world seems suddenly closer. Bert feels frustrated at being too young to fight in the Great War. Season Two, The 1920s: The local aristocrats plan to resume their...
8) Gwen
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Gwen is a young girl whose life seems to be collapsing around her. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a group of angry villagers threatening to take her farm, Gwen must find the strength to guide her family through the darkness. But as a malevolent presence begins to take a grip of her home, it becomes apparent there is a greater evil that may be too strong to overcome.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Anne Lister is a landowning woman who defied the conventions of her 19th century life to great scandal, for Anne was a lesbian. Her affair with 'soul mate' Marianna Belcombe keeps society guessing but when it is announced that Marianna is to be married to the older, corpulent and wealthy Charles Lawton, Anne is distraught. And so she begins a string of relationships.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Maxine Peake returns as QC Martha Costello who, one year into being a member of the Queen's Counsel, is busier than ever. Sparks continue to fly between Martha and fellow QC Clive Reader. Can they keep their relationship professional? Will an Exciting job opening tear the team of barristers apart? Rivalries sizzle and passions flare in the gripping third season of Silk"--Container.
11) Hamlet
Publisher
Omnibus Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his Uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans his revenge.
Author
Series
Description
A seductive and beautiful love story. Tells about an aristocrat, Sir Clifford Chatterley, who has come home from the war paralyzed from the waist down. His wife devotes herself to his care, but her husband's bitter arrogance soon makes her existence a nightmare. Selfishly he suggests that she produce an heir. He never dreams that she will break all the rules, and forgetting her social class, take their gamekeeper as her lover.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the first series, Ben Coulter wakes up with a hangover and blood on his hands after a one-night stand. Lying beside him, fatally stabbed, is the body of a woman. A nightmare begins that changes Ben's life forever, as damning evidence emerges to incriminate him in a murder that he has no recollection of committing. While in prison awaiting his trial, Ben must endure terrifying forms of 'justice' from hardcore inmates. Will he survive prison long...
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Shakespeare's Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago by Mr. Thomas Thorpe. This is a selection of 80 of the finest poems, read by leading actors, marking the 400th anniversary of their first publication.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Meet the Gallaghers. Mom went AWOL years ago. Dad stayed home with the six children only to hit the bottle, and sometimes the kids. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise "Lip" and the actively gay, but very private, Ian.
16) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In this dramatic tale of intrigue and lust we follow the trials and tribulations of the manipulative Angelica Fanshawe as she exploits a country in crisis in a bid to better her own position. Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, Angelica abandons her loyalties to the Royal Family following the execution of her childhood sweetheart and first husband, Harry Fanshawe. Destitute, Angelica finds herself on the wrong side of the law, suddenly...
