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Masterpiece Theatre: The Wilkie Collins Set - The Woman in White/The Moonstone

Actor: Greg Wise; Keeley Hawes; Terrence Hardiman; Mellan Mitchell; Peter Vaughan; Patricia Hodge; Rachel Lumberg; Nicholas Lane; Surinder Duhra; Lesley Sharp; Kacey Ainsworth; Scott Handy; Paul Brooke; Anton Lesser; Antony Sher; Roger Walker; Janet Henfrey; Elizabeth Berrington; Bobby Bernard; Peter Jeffrey
ASIN : B000HEWH1Y
Sales Rank : 36555
Director : Robert Bierman; Tim Fywell
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421412996
UPC : 783421412996
Release Date : December 17, 2006
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Running Time : 240

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Along a dark country road in Cumberland England a ghoulish woman in white steps from the shadows to confront a foot traveler Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln) bound for Limmeridge House three miles off. She asks senseless questions: "You don't suspect me of wrong do you Sir? Why do you suspect me of wrong?" Hartright assures her he suspects her of no wrong but she gibbers on. When a carriage happens by the woman dissolves into the darkness and Hartright accepts the offer of a ride the rest of the way to Limmeridge House a mansion where eccentric esquire Frederick Fairlie (Ian Richardson) has arranged for Hartright to tutor his nieces -- half-sisters Marian and Laura Fairlie -- in the art of drawing. Soon Hartright falls in love with Laura a wealthy heiress. Strangely she is the near mirror image of the woman in white. Laura in turn falls in love with him. Marian who wants only the best for Laura approves of the romance. Unfortunately Hartright loses his job when falsely accused of bad conduct. Before he leaves Limmeridge House he warns Laura that she and her sister are in grave danger. Deeply disappointed in him Laura ignores his caveat and fulfills a pledge to marry Sir Percival Gylde (James Wilby). He seems amiable and even invites Marian to live with him and Laura after the wedding. But when Laura returns from the honeymoon she is melancholy and morose hardly speaking a word to Marian. Glyde and a sinister visitor named Count Fosco (Simon Callow) are the reasons. Apparently they are plotting to seize her inheritance using the tidiest of stratagems: murder. Meanwhile dark secrets unravel involving Glyde's family background and the mysterious woman in white and Hartright returns in an attempt to save the sisters and exorcise the evil possessing Limmeridge House. ~ Mike Cummings All Movie GuideSystem Requirements:Run Time: 224 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 783421412996 Manufacturer No: WG41299

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Anna Karenina (2000)

Actor: Helen McCrory; Kevin McKidd; Douglas Henshall; Mark Strong (II); Amanda Root; Paul Rhys; Paloma Baeza; Abigail Cruttenden; Sara Kestelman; Stephen Dillane; David Allister; Rachel Power; Marlene Sidaway; Gabbi Majewska; David Dixon; Caroline Holdaway; Richard Harradine; Dorota Landowska; Tom Ward (II); Michael Cronin (II)
ASIN : B0002XVS6U
Sales Rank : 33447
Director : David Blair (II)
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593752316
ISBN : 1593752318
UPC : 783421331792
Release Date : December 09, 2004
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Running Time : 240

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This famous line commences a refreshingly modern interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina-—an epic tale of love, duty, marriage and infidelity. This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna’s children—a son by Alexei and illegitimate daughter by Vronsky—become pawns in Alexei’s game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion. With its gripping narrative and unbridled romance, Anna Karenina reveals the uncontrollable passion, emotional betrayal and courage of a woman who violates moral strictures and risks everything to follow her heart. Helen McCrory stars as Anna, along with Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting) as Count Vronsky, the handsome object of her desires; and Tony Award-winner Stephen Dillane (The Real Thing) as Alexei Karenin, Anna’s callously principled husband.

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Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep Figures It Out

Actors: Megan Mullally, Scott Beaudin, Raquel Cadilha, Marium Carvell, Corinne Conley
ASIN : B000PWQPB6
Sales Rank : 23156
Director : Rick Marshall
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : Wgbh Boston
Region Code : 0
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421418899
UPC : 783421418899
Release Date : December 05, 2007
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Running Time : 60

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Join Peep, Chirp and Quack on six exciting, new adventures! Find out what a "whatchamacallit" is. Discover where the sun goes at night. Figure out how to un-flip a turtle. And learn why a step, a squirm, and a hop are very different measurements. There's a big wide world out there and it's waiting for YOU! Then join real kids as they experiment and play in their OWN "big wide worlds." Build bridges. Make shadow puppets. Track shadows. Find funny ways to measure yourself. It's all part of your scientific research! Little friends, big adventures! It’s PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD! Peep Figures It Out includes: Bridge the Gap, The Whatchamacallit, Flipping Newton, Shadow Play, Go West Young Peep, Peep Feet and 2 bonus programs, Chirp Builds a Nest and Night Light. Special DVD features include: English and Spanish audio tracks; downloadable activities for young children; closed captions, and access to the Peep and the Big Wide World Web site.

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Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

Actor: James Wilby; Juliet Aubrey; Alan Bates; Eileen Atkins; Charles Edwards (VI); Amber Rose Sealey; Elisabeth Dermot Walsh; Hannah Wiltshire; Robert Hardy; Oliver Ford Davies; Graham Bill; Deborah Cornelius; Naomi Martin; Alexandra Staden; Jeremy Child; David Hatton; Rupert Wickham; Jeremy Swift; Simon Day (III); Anthony Smee
ASIN : B0006Q93H4
Sales Rank : 26067
Director : Giles Foster
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593752408
ISBN : 1593752407
UPC : 783421383098
Release Date : December 04, 2005
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Running Time : 105

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James Wilby (Gosford Park) and Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved, on Bertie & Elizabeth. Albert, Duke of York, called Bertie, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 after a storybook courtship. Expecting a life of genteel obscurity, they were thrust into the limelight in 1936 when Bertie's older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. Shy, modest, and a habitual stutterer, Bertie was crowned King George VI just as his country faced the onslaught of World War II. With the help of his devoted Elizabeth, he rose magnificently to the challenge. Bertie & Elizabeth also stars Alan Bates (Love in a Cold Climate) as Bertie's father, King George V; Eileen Atkins (currently starring with Bates and Wilby in Gosford Park) as his mother, Queen Mary; Charles Edwards as Edward VIII; Amber Rose Sealey as Wallis Simpson; David Ryall as Winston Churchill; Robert Hardy (Lucky Jim) as President Franklin Roosevelt; and Corin Redgrave (Persuasion) as General Bernard Montgomery.

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Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theater: The Blackheath Poisonings

Actor: Christine Kavanagh; Ian McNeice; ZoÃ« Wanamaker; Judy Parfitt; Patrick Malahide; James Faulkner; Christien Anholt; Julia St. John; Nicholas Woodeson; Ronald Fraser; Donald Sumpter; Dafydd Hywel; Ralph Nossek; Ian Bartholomew; Gabrielle Cowburn; George Anton; Danny Schiller; Basil Hoskins; Richard Strange; Andrew Robertson
ASIN : B0000A5A3A
Sales Rank : 15109
Director : Stuart Orme
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593750756
ISBN : 1593750757
UPC : 783421375390
Release Date : December 02, 2003
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Running Time : 180

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Behind the shutters of a Victorian family’s home lies a lethal potion of lust, corruption and greed.

At first glance, the two toymaking families who share a spacious villa in the leafy London suburb of Blackheath appear to be the era’s picture-perfect examples. But looks can be murderously deceiving.

The Collards and Vandervents are not alone in their house–they are also living with wicked secrets. Thrown together for the sake of the family business, they each harbor dangerous emotions—and equally dangerous habits. Led by the frosty hand of a diabolic matriarch, the extended family also includes a selfish, debauched son; a bitter spinster; an adulterous wife; and a sharp young man who suspects his father’s sudden death wasn’t caused by the hand of God, but by poison.

A police investigation reveals unseemly secrets and an illicit affair that leads to a shocking—and riveting—conclusion. The Blackheath Poisonings, based on the best-selling mystery novel by Julian Symons, and adapted by Simon Raven (Edward and Mrs. Simpson), boldly and brilliantly redefines the Victorian era.

Special DVD features include: selected cast flmographies; selected cast list; biography of host Russell Baker; a link to the Masterpiece Theatre Web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.

On one DVD9 discs. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4x3 full frame.

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Touching Evil 1 Boxed Set (The Lost Boys/To Death and Back/What Amathus Wants)

Actor: Robson Green; Nicola Walker; Michael Feast; Shaun Dingwall; Adam Kotz; Ian McDiarmid; Kenneth MacDonald (II); Mary Cunningham; Claudie Blakley; Saskia Downes; Antony Byrne; Sean Gilder; Marcia Tucker; Jasper Jacob; Louise Heaney; David Henry; Valerie Lush; Dorothea Alexander; Philip Wright; Wesley Jackman
ASIN : B0001WTWO2
Sales Rank : 14845
Director : Julian Jarrold; Marc Munden
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593751449
ISBN : 1593751443
UPC : 783421339798
Release Date : December 29, 2004
Publisher : WGBH BOSTON
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Running Time : 360

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Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.

Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London’s Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England’s most dangerous criminals–a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.

Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; and closed captions.

On three DVD5 discs. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

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This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett

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NOVA: Mind of a Serial Killer

Actor: Patrick Stewart
ASIN : B00067BC8Q
Sales Rank : 16751
Director : Larry Klein
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593752149
ISBN : 1593752148
UPC : 783421264595
Release Date : December 22, 2005
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Running Time : 60

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The Boston Strangler. The Son of Sam. Jeffrey Dahmer. Every time a serial killer hits, it touches a deep collective nerve of fear—in part because his grisly acts so defy comprehension.

Or do they? Step behind the scenes at the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, where psychological detectives race against time to penetrate the minds and emotions of the most elusive of murderers. Using state-of-the-art science, elite investigators tease apart crime scene evidence and scrutinize victim profiles to construct an astonishingly accurate personality print of the perpetrator—and a good guess as to how and when he'll make his next move.

This time the scene is Rochester, New York, where multiple slayings of prostitutes have left local authorities baffled. Find out how FBI sleuths figure out what makes this dark mind tick—and how remarkable prediction lets them stop the killer in his tracks before he can strike again. Special DVD features include: a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; and closed captions. On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 Full Screen.

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NOVA: Mystery of the Megaflood (2005)

Actor: Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don Wescott
ASIN : B000BKDO0C
Sales Rank : 28204
Director : not listed
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593753153
ISBN : 1593753152
UPC : 783421388796
Release Date : December 03, 2006
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Running Time : 56

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It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that thousand-foot-deep floodwaters had scoured out vast areas of the American northwest near the end of the last ice age. Mainstream scientists scorned his theory while he searched patiently for answers to what could have triggered such an inconceivably violent event. Finally, an ingenious solution silenced the skeptics: traces of an enormous ice dam half a mile high, which had blocked a valley in present-day Montana and created an enormous lake behind it. With the help of stunningly realistic animation, NOVA takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when the dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.

Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.

On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.

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Me & Mrs. Jones

Actor: Caroline Goodall; Robson Green; Philip Quast; Keeley Hawes; Michael Maloney; Aisling O'Sullivan; Peter Firth; Katy Murphy; Terence Harvey; Christopher James (III); Tom Knight; Clare Thomas; Chloe Howman; Jordan Theis; Marc Bannerman; Lisa Hayes; Nitin Ganatra
ASIN : B0002TSZQA
Sales Rank : 27462
Director : Catherine Morshead
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593751951
ISBN : 1593751958
UPC : 783421362192
Release Date : December 07, 2004
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Running Time : 120

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Love and politics don’t mix. Prepare for an explosive romance.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, indeed. Robson Green (Reckless, Touching Evil) portrays a Fleet Street tabloid writer who earns his keep airing the private doings of public figures. His next story is going to take him right to the top.

The snooping columnist, who writes under the pseudonym Mrs. Jones, secretly infiltrates 10 Downing Street in an effort to reveal the Prime Minister’s intimate personal details and deflate her re-election campaign. But once inside, he finds not scandal but true love–with the married Prime Minister herself. This secret affair may end both his career and the PM’s political hopes, but the heart doesn’t always listen to logic.

Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List, The Princess Diaries) co-stars as the British Prime Minister in Me and Mrs. Jones, a winning romantic drama propelled by gossip, scandal, and outrage, as well as powerhouse performances from two of today’s top talents.

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Masterpiece Theatre: The Wilkie Collins Set - The Woman in White/The Moonstone

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Anna Karenina (2000)

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Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep Figures It Out

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Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

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Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theater: The Blackheath Poisonings

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ZOOM - Back to the 70s

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Touching Evil 1 Boxed Set (The Lost Boys/To Death and Back/What Amathus Wants)

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NOVA: Mind of a Serial Killer

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NOVA: Mystery of the Megaflood (2005)

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Me & Mrs. Jones

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