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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000?], ©℗1978.
Language
English
Description
"Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespear creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another, and themselves."--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Tess Durbeyfield is a luminous beauty who is violated by one man and forsaken by another, but she refuses to remain a victim. Her struggle to endure despite the abandonment of her true love, and despite her desperate attempt to attain happiness, propels Tess toward a tragic end.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A stowaway from darkest Peru, Paddington eventually finds himself alone in Paddington Station, a tag around his neck reading: 'Please look after this bear. Thank you.' When the Brown family takes him home, they get a lot more than they bargained for. Contains 56 episodes, plus three half -hour TV specials, and 15 bonus episodes.
Featuring 56 episodes of the stop-motion classic Paddington Bear, based on the internationally renowned children's book...
7) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Having escaped to hide in Elizabethan London, Matthew and Diana must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
12) Sanditon
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
"Sanditon's...
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