British Broadcasting Corporation.
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Muzzy is the number one language-learning program for children developed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Children begin their journey to bilingualism by watching a video story about Muzzy, a lovable extraterrestrial who flies around the universe and makes new friends in the Kingdom of Gondoland. Six video stories and three vocabulary builders for Spanish.
Publisher
Starz Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the second season of The Missing: In 2014, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster and she has been missing for eleven years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the small community.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Basil Fawlty is an inept and manic English hotel owner and manager who isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. Chaos frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel. He is constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel, the Spanish waiter. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various...
4) Man on wire
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.
Series
Great authors. Charles Dickens volume 3
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This disc contains the Dickens' classic "A Christmas carol" with Lucy Skeaping and her ensemble performing delicioulsy seedy pub songs. This disc also contains behind the scenes footage from the movie "Uncovering the real Dickens."
Series
Great authors. Charles Dickens volume 1
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A recreation of Charles Dickens extraordinary life.
7) Cosmos
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Carl Sagan discusses the cosmic relationship between man and the universe.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
11) Ethel & Ernest
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The life and times of two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
13) Earth
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson ... uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail"--Container
Publisher
Starz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager "Sir" who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser "Norman" must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial...
19) The summit
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In August of 2008, eighteen mountain climbers reached the top of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. 48 hours later, eleven people were dead, making it the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history. While memorials paid tribute to those killed, there were also condemnations about why. Why do these athletes risk everything to reach a place humans are simply not meant to go? Why do they put their lives and the lives of others on the...
20) Planet Earth
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The 11-part BBC series is narrated by Sir David Attenborough and organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been represented.