BBC Video (Firm)
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistible. Looks at 4,000 species, including ones that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth. Examine how their adaptations for finding food have had an effect on the way they socialize, mate and live.
7) My Boy Jack
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Use of interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany,...
Series
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
11) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Fanny is an impoverished young woman, snubbed by society, who earns the respect and love of her cousin in this BBC mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen classic set in 19th century England.
12) The murder room
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a highly sensitive murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum. The circumstances of the case bear an unsettling similarity to the historical cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.
Series
Sherlock volume Season 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Sherlock and Watson are back in three new stories: A Scandal in Belgravia; The Hounds of Baskerville; and The Woman, the Hound, and the Fall.
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Hilarious high jinks from the Grace Brothers team as they troop off to sunny Spain for the staff trip of a laugh-time! Cheerfully they disgrace themselves on the Costa Planka. Mr. Humphries is free while Captain Peacock wants everything under the sun from Miss Brahms. Mrs. Slocombe only hopes her pussy survives as the comedy capers carry on abroad in the funniest film you will ever witness!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Two Doors Down features a cast of truly distinctive characters - Beth and Eric, Cathy and Colin, Christine and daughter Sophie, Ian and Jaz - all offer their support and drive each other mad in equal measure. So, as ever, it's on the edge of chaos in Latimer Crescent. Everyone struggles to remain cheerful through a series of tryng incidents, including five different methods of cooking a potato, a disturbing reveal of what's inside Eric's kilt, an...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Two Doors Down features a cast of truly distinctive characters - Beth and Eric, Cathy and Colin, Christine and daughter Sophie, Ian and Jaz - all ready to support each other through life's highs and lows. That sounds like a blessing but it's often more of a curse. From day-to-day, apparently trivial, events to life-defining decisions and ordeals, what starts out as friendly interest usually snowballs into trodden toes, crossed boundaries and seriously...