Leo McKern
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Napoleon's turbulent history with Russia including his doomed 1812 invasion provides the setting for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Often referred to as the greatest novel of all time, Tolstoy's classic follows the tumultuous personal lives of two aristocratic families touching on all of the great human epochs; youth, matrimony, age and death.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, who butted heads with the king when he wanted to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
3) Help!
Language
English
Description
Ringo's life is imperiled by an ancient sacrificial ring stuck on his famous finger. The ring makes him a target of a group of hilariously demented oriental mystics, who chase the boys from London to the Swiss Alps to the Bahamas.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspenseful dramatization of the real-life adventures of Agent ST-I, aka Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Shot's in glorious period detail, one heart-pulsing mission after another captures the arc of Reilly's brilliant career. From stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits are at times so daring and reckless...
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 206 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this stirring anti-war film set during WWI, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer is assigned to defend a lowly private at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves is convinced this young man should be executed. However, as the trial progresses and the strain of three horrible years endured at the Allied front is revealed, the more he is compelled to spare the youth from a firing...
10) X the unknown
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British commandos on maneuvers near a muddy marsh become ill with mysterious symptoms and horrific burns. Dr. Royston, an atomic scientist from a nearby research station, suspects lethal radiation but is mystified by the cause.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A parallel narrative of a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and of the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspenseful dramatization of the real-life adventures of Agent ST-I, aka Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Shot's in glorious period detail, one heart-pulsing mission after another captures the arc of Reilly's brilliant career. From stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits are at times so daring and reckless...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously set off nuclear explosions, London's Daily Express begins to report on bizarre weather changes around the world. But when the reporters dig deeper, they discover that the blasts have knocked Earth off its axis and sent it hurtling towards the sun. Now, cities explode in chaos and mankind is left with one last hope: A final massive detonation that will either re-balance Earth's orbit or destroy...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (2 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspenseful dramatization of the real-life adventures of Agent ST-I, aka Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Shot's in glorious period detail, one heart-pulsing mission after another captures the arc of Reilly's brilliant career. From stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits are at times so daring and reckless...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspenseful dramatization of the real-life adventures of Agent ST-I, aka Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Shot's in glorious period detail, one heart-pulsing mission after another captures the arc of Reilly's brilliant career. From stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits are at times so daring and reckless...
19) Candleshoe
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
20) King Richard II
Author
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Description
3 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm., microgroove ; 12 in.
Language
English
