British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Now that the Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they're relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In Hemingway adventure, Michael Palin takes the viewer to locations where Hemingway lived, visited, and wrote about. In Great railway journeys, Palin travels from Londonderry to the western tip of Ireland, following the progression of his family's migration.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Plants live secret, unseen lives. They are capable of forming mutually beneficial relationships with animals. But they can also be as aggressive, competitive, and dramatic as any living thing on our planet. Using specialist cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world. Each episode introduces a set of plants, reveals the battles they face, and the ingenious ways...
10) Othello
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio.
12) The last kingdom
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The re-telling of the valiant story of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite many separate kingdoms into what would become England. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people reclaimed their land from the invading Vikings and built a place they call home.
13) Frozen planet
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean and the ice, is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Peter Kingdom is a country solicitor whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough. But there's a secret sadness for the popular lawyer. His brother and business partner, Simon, has died but his body has never been found. Peter constantly searches for clues to the mystery surrounding Simon's death.
15) Outlaws
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Before Billy the Kid and Jesse James, the golden age of the outlaw blossomed in Great Britain, where real-life Robin Hoods prowled the open roads and urban alleyways of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Few figures in British history have captured the popular imagination as much as the outlaw: their brazen escapades and flamboyance made them the antihero of their time - feared by the rich, admired by the poor and celebrated by writers and...
16) The triangle
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A group of specialists investigate a number of disappearances of cargo ships that have come up missing. As the mystery deepens, every clue they uncover leads to truths that are more bizarre than the myths used to protect them!
17) Venice revealed
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Explore the palazzos, churches, alleyways, and canals of one of the world's most seductive and mysterious cities. British writer and historian Peter Ackroyd leads an in-depth tour of the art, architecture, music, and theater of Venice, from Tintoretto to Vivaldi, Canaletto to Carnival. Interviews with preservationists reveal the desperate efforts underway to rescue the floating city from the ravages of time and the sea.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009, ©1975
Description
Basil Fawlty is the sharp-tongued, short-fused owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and bizarre characters. This set collects all 12 episodes of the British comedy, and also includes interviews with the writer and star, John Cleese.
Basil Fawlty is the much put-upon hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riff-raff. Named the #1 television program of all time by the British Film Institute, the...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
© 2012
Description
Join the Doctor, his companions Amy and Rory (aka the Ponds) and numerous friends on their latest escapades through space and time where they puzzle an unexpected invasion of Earth, save a spaceship full of dinosaurs, don Stetsons in a Wild West adventure and are even kidnapped by the Doctor's oldest foe. The explosive series concludes with Amy and Rory's heart-breaking farewell a race against time through the streets of Manhattan.