Emily Watson
1) Cold souls
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Classic Play, "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
5) Everest
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A father has a nurse take his newborn daughter to a home to be raised away from his wife and the baby's twin brother, upon learning that the baby girl has Down Syndrome.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities. Quickly giving their chaperones the slip, the young royals venture out into London for a whirlwind adventure filled with excitement, danger and the flutters of first...
8) Little boy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
9) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
10) Separate lies
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
Standard or widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Englishman finds out that his spouse has been cheating on him and is drawn into a web of cover-ups and lies.
11) Chernobyl
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic five-part miniseries dramatizing the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident, as told through the stories of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
12) Corpse bride
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008, ©2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a lonely young boy named Angus discovers a large, mysterious egg along the shore of Loch Ness, no one is prepared for what lies within. He soon discovers that the strange, mischievous hatching inside is none other than The Water Horse, the loch's most mysterious and fabled creature! But with the Water Horse growing ten times its size every day, Angus finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new friend a secret.
14) Punch-drunk love
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Two disc special ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, falls in love with Lena, a co-worker of one of Barry's seven sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry is extorted by bad-guy Dean, who eventually sends four goons to assault Barry and get the money.
15) The dresser
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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?
16) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts Beatrix Potter's life from her early fascination with woodland creatures to her days as an independent woman pursuing a career in writing and illustrating.
17) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed.; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of the upstairs guests and the downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war, and remembrance, based on the World War I memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
"This is Vikander's film and she is very good here."--Toronto Star
"Tough-minded and sometimes...
19) Punch-drunk love
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
[1-disc]; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barry, a socially awkward man who is constantly being tormented by his seven sisters, falls madly in love with a mysterious woman. But a loose thread from his past may threaten their happiness.
20) The proposition
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.