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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
It follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another, the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon, all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The crackling sexual currents in London University's forensic pathology department flow in new directions in five gripping, two-part episodes of the award-winning BBC crime drama. Will Harry's affair with a former colleague cloud his judgment when her husband is murdered? Will Nikki's affair with a South African businessman keep her in Cape Town? Tangled passions and deceit end in a pool of blood for the wife of a wealthy banker, and in women's murders...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
It is the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. Worn by everyone from presidents to supermodels, farmers to rock stars, they're more than just a pair of pants America's tangled past is woven deeply into the indigo fabric. From its roots in slavery to the Wild West, youth culture, the civil rights movement, rock and roll, hippies, high fashion, and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American culture and...
84) Fallen angel
Series
Fox film noir volume 14
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"June Mills and her sister Clara live a quiet life in a small coastal town until Eric Stanton, a smooth-talking con man, comes into their lives. He seems to fall hard for June, but Clara believes he's interested only in the family fortune. Meanwhile, sultry waitress Stella catches Stanton's fancy and thinks he might be her ticket out of town. The local cop knows more than he's telling about his fellow citizens and their tangled relationships, which...
85) Drive My Car
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Two years after his wife2s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
March, 1942. 90-pound weakling Steve Rogers doggedly attempts to enlist in the army, only to be repeatedly classified 4F. Rogers' determination and decency come to the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Rogers is the first test subject for Erskine's super-soldier serum, which transforms him utterly. When the program is abruptly ended, Rogers becomes Captain America--touring America to sell war bonds. On a USO tour...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, John Luther (Idris Elba) once again confronts the depths of human depravity. As a series of monstrous killings becomes more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku) are confounded by a tangle of misdirection that seems to protect an unspeakable horror. But as the case brings him closer than ever to the nature of true evil, a reluctant Luther faces the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Walt Longmire is just the man to close murder cases under the open skies of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Striding out of Craig Johnson's Western mystery novels, the charismatic and unflappable sheriff (Robert Taylor) headlines this series with world-weary dedication. Struggling since his wife's death a year ago, and at the urging of his attorney daughter (Cassidy Freeman), Walt knows he must turn his life around. Aided by a new female deputy (Katee Sackhoff)...
89) Traitor
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
When FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to point back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his...
90) Traitor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
When FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to point back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Gomer Pyle gets himself in and out of one sidesplitting fix after another, much to the exasperation of his bullheaded drill instructor, the thunderous Sgt. Carter. In spite of it all, it's Gomer's kind heart and cockeyed innocence that never fail to win over his cantankerous superior and beloved platoon.
Series
Poirot volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) has retired to a county village, until his neighbor, a wealthy industrialist, is found murdered. Poirot reunites with his old partner, Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) to find the culprit, exposing a tangled web of blackmail, envy and murder. Everyone in the Ackroyd household falls under Poirot's scrutiny, and in classic Agatha Christie style, this cast of suspicious characters all seem...
94) The great Gatsby
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Jay Gatsby is a man possessed--driven by greed, ambition and, most of all, an unwavering desire for a woman he met before the Great War, when he was poor and she was unobtainable. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is an extraordinary journey into the heart of the American Dream and out the other side, where the spoils of success do not always suffice. This lively and lavish adaptation from A & E captures the heady swirl of the Jazz Age in all its...
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Wild Kratts: Australian Adventures Go "Down Under" with the Wild Kratts where the team has to do some crafty adapting to survive the harsh conditions of this wild environment. And Martin and Chris cross the desert on a mission to see Red Kangaroos. They soon discover that 'roos never back down from a kick-boxing fight! With wild creatures and fun characters, the Wild Kratts make learning about nature an educational adventure! Episodes include... Koala...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The Tale of Despereaux Based on the heartwarming children's bestselling book, a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears dreamt of becoming a knight, was banished from his home and set off on a noble quest to rescue a princess and save a kingdom from darkness. Balto II: Wolf Quest Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, Aleu, Balto's headstrong daughter, will seek her own path, tangle with a renegade wolf pack leader and - with a little help...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
DuckTales the movie: Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webbigail Vanderquack accompany their wealthy uncle Scrooge McDuck on a trip to Egypt in search of the long-lost riches of Collie Baba's ancient pyramid. After an epic battle with Merlock the evil sorcerer over a magic lamp, Scrooge and his companions discover that friendship and family are far more valuable than even the most fantastic fortune.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Presents the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema, who dominated silent film comedy from the days of Keystone until tragic events in 1921 shattered his career, throwing his film triumphs into obscurity. Blacklisted by Hollywood, Arbuckle continued directing dozens of film comedies under the pseudonym "William Goodrich" for almost another decade.
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
A classic film adaptation of the Broadway comedy about two gentle, but highly lethal, sisters who poison lonely old men as an act of charity. The plot thickens as their nephew discovers their secret and tries to figure a way out of his increasingly more tangled family dilemma.
100) Cinderella
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown, and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving only a single glass slipper, the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending! Bonus features included.
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