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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the gripping third series that airs on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe. DVD includes behind the scenes documentary and cast reflections.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After finally catching serial killer and occult 'sorcerer' Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. After his execution, Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with Watson's new fiance and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the determined detective must unravel the clues that will lead...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (417 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her. The seven-part limited series is an exploration into the dark side of a close community and an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our present.
5) 15 minutes
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
DVD widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they...
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 274 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The house in the woods: According to local legend, Winyard is haunted, and it lives up to its reputation when a young couple dies on the property in a grisly fashion. Dead letters: As Midsomer Barton celebrates Oak Apple Week, the mother of a former festival queen drowns herself. But is it really suicide? Vixen's run: At...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 454 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Publisher
PBS [Distributor]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to solve a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend tests his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to lock horns...
11) Vera: Season 8
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
15) Minority report
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite....
17) Vera: Season 9
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (356 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile, and courage. Her trusted an dlong suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
19) Knives out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
20) Vera: Set 6
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
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