England) BBC Two (Television station : London
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
DSI Stella Gibson continues to hunt serial killer Paul Spector in the second series of this smart psychological thriller. As Gibson tries to help Spector's surviving victim remember the identity of her attacker, Spector deals with loose ends that he left behind in Belfast. When he realizes that someone from his past has been helping the police with their inquiries, Spector changes his plans with terrifying consequences.
2) Wolf Hall
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
3) Good omens
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of one remarkable doctor as he transforms the standards of care for paraplegics. Arriving at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1944, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann reinvigorates the lives of his staff and patients with one daring move: he introduces athletics into the rehabilitation plan of his patients, paralyzed soldiers who have been cast-off and are facing death from neglect. Using sports, his patients learn to build not only physical strength, but...
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London during a time of huge change. Dancing on the Edge follows black jazz musicians, the Louis Lester Band, as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of London's upper class society. Although many recoil at the performance of black musicians in polite society, the city's more progressive socialites, including members of the Royal Household, take the band under their wing. But when the...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates is an exemplary cop. He's got the best crime stats on the force and a loyal team working under him. But the head of the police anticorruption unit, Superintendent Ted Hastings, has his doubts about Gates. Is he really that good? And more importantly, is he really that clean? Hastings decides to find out and all on a new arrival to his department, Detective Sergeant Steven Arnott to help him do it. As the net tightens...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A three-part series exploring the reign of Queen Victoria through her husband Albert, the Prince Consort, and the lives of her children. By telling the stories of the personal relationships between Victoria, her husband, and their nine children, it looks for a fresh understanding of the longest reigning Queen and the nature of the British monarchy.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the blunders of the fictitious Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, a British government department barely registering on the national radar. In this Ministry, every announcement is followed by a whirlwind of U-turns, every policy is a scramble and every mishap is met with abuse from the Prime Minister's policy enforcer, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). The inspiration behind the film In the Loop and the HBO television series Veep,...
12) Parade's end
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour HBO miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In their final season as presenters, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May race across Patagonia, embark on an ambitious project to build better ambulances, find the perfect classic convertibles for an English summer, celebrate the world's most indecisive car company, and pay perilous tribute to the Land Rover Defender.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May (with their mysterious assistant, The Stig, of course) undertake an American road trip, where they take iconic supercars for a spin through Las Vegas and Los Angeles, race against fighter planes and end with a hair-raising run to the Mexican border. The hosts embark on another epic trip to find the source of the Nile River in three station wagons with a not-so-stellar knowledge of African geography....
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The world's most popular car show sees Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in typically explosive form. In the course of six packed programs, they set out to race a car against an America's Cup yacht up the coast of New Zealand, launch a highly scientific process to find the world's fastest taxi, and do their bit for European economic turmoil by blasting across Spain in three 'affordable' supercars. Also in this series, Top Gear tackles...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The group embarks on a huge and potentially glowing road trip across Ukraine in three small cars with even smaller engines; re-live the glory days of the 1980s in three classic hot hatchbacks. The series includes an epic two part adventure across the wilds of Burma as the presenters take three Lorries on what could be their toughest challenge to date.