Alun Armstrong
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sexy, ambitious Superintendent Sandra Pullman leads the Metropolitan Police Force's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad in this affable police drama. Her team: Three aging former detectives lured out of retirement. Gerry Standing is a womanizer, Brian Lane is clinically depressed, and Jack Halford has conversations with his dead wife. Can this curmudgeonly trio of crime-busters learn new tricks to crack tough crimes, or are the old ways, a blend of...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Julie Walters and Robert Lindsay star in a story of lust, loot and a show to set pulses racing. Maureen Hardcastle is furious when husband Jimmy brings in strippers to boost their pub takings, but on the opening night, she is reunited with a long lost school friend, who turns out to be the star act, and her boyfriend manager, Billy Bowmans. When Maureen unexpectedly inherits a fortune she decides to turn the tables on the men but Billy has no intention...
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.
4) Dark angel
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children. Based on a true story, she was eventually caught and hung for her crimes in 1873.
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
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad are about to welcome a few new faces, but first, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her loyal team, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, and Steve McAndrew, will solve their final cases together, bringing justice to decades-old murders that stumped London's Metropolitan Police.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A critical and ratings favorite on both sides of the pond, 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
For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad--veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam, The Beiderbecke Affair), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong, Garrow's Law), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman, The Sweeney)--have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman, Sexy Beast)their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie....
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...
12) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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...
13) 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.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
Author
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.
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...
18) Tom Jones
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
19) Bleak house
Language
English
Description
"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After years of living apart, John arrives in New York to deliver divorce papers to world-famous ice skater Elena. But as he re-enters Elena's high-profile world, he discovers things that are slowly destroying his estranged wife.