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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Quiet lanes and country houses hold daunting secrets that only Father Brown, using his intuition and skill, will be able to work out much to the chagrin of Inspector Sullivan. Joined by his gang of dedicated helpers: the excitable parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, the glamorous Lady Felicia Montague and her resourceful chauffeur (and mostly former small-time crook) Sid Carter, Father Brown faces some of his most daunting cases yet.
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Set in the 1950s in the heart of the English countryside, Father Brown is a kindly cleric with a particular talent for solving crimes. Many years spent hearing confessions have given him an uncanny insight into the workings of the criminal mind, and in each episode the enigmatic priest discovers the truth of a crime by looking into the truth of the soul, the passions, dark secrets, hidden desires.
64) Luther 3
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
In this new mini-series, a twisted fetishist is targeting young women in London. As Luther is called to another case, will the killer escape his grips? Luther faces an even bigger threat as members of his own team will stop at nothing to bring him down. And as a vigilante killer takes justice into his own hands, Luther questions his own sense of morality. Can he continue to walk the thin line between right and wrong, or has he finally met his match?...
65) Small Island
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
67) Wilde
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Special ed.
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
69) Reign of fire
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
In present day London dragons awake. Fast forward 20 years, to a world devastated by their destruction. Fire Chief Quinn, is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive in what's left of the world. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to destroy the beasts and save mankind.
71) North & south
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A young woman is forced leave behind her priviliged rural lifestyle when her father moves the family to a northern working class town.
72) Black plague
Pub. Date
2014
Description
With the horrors of the Black Death haunting Europe, English soldiers return home from war with a French nobleman as a hostage. Soon after, people in their home village soon after begin to die, it is believed that the Black Death has struck once more. However, there are other dark and sinister reasons behind the sudden rash of deaths.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending gloom surrounding Hitlers' Germany.
74) Elizabeth I
Pub. Date
2006, c[2005]
Description
Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.
75) Carrie's war
Pub. Date
2006
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, and are forced to live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
77) Story of England
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"In this groundbreaking series, historian Michael Wood tells the story of one village through two thousand years. Focusing not on kings and rulers, but on the lives of ordinary people, Wood reveals a unique view of the whole of English history." -- Container.
78) The railway man
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
79) The level
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin leads a double life. Her high-flying police career is at odds with an attachment to shady businessman and drug trafficker Frank Le Saux, who acts as a father figure to her. Having kept him off the police's radar for years, Nancy finds her secret at risk of exposure when Frank is murdered in Brighton and she's placed in the middle of the investigation, with a killer stalking her.
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