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Language
English
Description
A group of British retirees decide to outsource their retirement to a newly renovated hotel in Jaipur, India, that is being marketed as a retirement residence, but when they arrive, they find it to be in less luxurious condition than they had imagined, although they are soon charmed and transformed by their shared experiences.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, this epic drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in jeopardy.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Wondrous Kingdom captures The British Isles at its most mysterious and magnificent, with visits to such landmarks as Stonehenge, the Tower of London, London Bridge, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Sixteen year old Gwen Davies adores the horses she and her grandfather have raised on the beautiful Welsh Mountains. However, when her grandfather dies her uncle must either sell the farm to a greedy land developer, or allow Gwen to keep the farm, opening the wounds of his tragic past in the process.
11) Any Human Heart
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her yonger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
14) Valiant
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II. Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. Against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a very important assignment....
Series
Unforgettable journeys volume 10
Publisher
International Masters Publishers AB
Pub. Date
2010, �2007
Language
English
Description
The west coast of Canada has an unusually diverse climate, scenery and wildlife. Fjord-like inlets and thousands of islands run along the coast from the barren wildernesses in the frozen north to the temperate rainforests and snow-covered mountains in the south.
16) Brassed off!
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Comedy and romance as a small northern England coal-mining town fights the closing of its colliery and the local miners' brass band prepares for a national competition.
18) Firewall
Author
Series
Nick Stone novels volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Shackleton's Antarctic adventure recounts the extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which many consider "the greatest survival story of all time." This expedition has become a testament to heroism and human endurance, with all 28 men surviving nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, the Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed....