UK Film Council.
1) Man On Wire
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York. Academy Award winner. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
4) In the loop
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and...
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
8) Centurion
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
AD 117: The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying Picts led by revenge-hungry Pict Warrior Etain. When the Roman legion is ambushed, the seven surviving Romans pledge to rescue their leader and return to Rome to re-group.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 digital disc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another,...
10) Bright star
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
11) Becoming Jane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first, the young Jane Austen finds the mischevious Thomas Lefroy ignorant and self-centered, but they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Both of their families disagree with the match, but Thomas tries to convince Jane to runaway with him. Instead, Jane stays with her family and ends her affair with Thomas. She begins to write some of her greatest works of all time, with Lefroy becoming the inspiration for Mr. Darcy in the novel "Pride...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider has been trained since birth for a career as a spy. It's not until his beloved uncle, Ian Rider, dies that Alex learns of his intended purpose in life. At just 14, Alex is not sure he can do all that is required of a super spy. Without much choice he is taken under the wing of Britain's secret intelligence service.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
DVD region 1, NTSC; widescreen 2.35:1 presentation, Dolby digital surround, dual layer format. 1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ;
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
14) Valiant
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons in the Royal Air Force prove it's not the size of your wingspan but the size of your spirit that truly counts.
16) Sunshine
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed and well-to-do Mrs. Henderson is certainly not going to spend her days playing bridge. Instead, she brings war-torn London to its feet with a live show featuring nude girls.
18) Venus
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maurice is a successful but aging actor who sees something in Jessie, a brash young girl; namely, a potential for humanity which blossoms under his kindness and gentle guidance. For Maurice, something else blossoms as well - romantic love for a girl fifty years younger.
20) Driving lessons
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Marshall fills her home with down-and-out boarders. Laura's shy teenage son, Ben, lands a job tending to self-proclaimed "Dame" Evie Walton, an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life.