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1) King Lear
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the 1997 Royal National Theatre production, widely considered the finest staging of King Lear in the past decade, Ian Holm 'touches greatness' (N.Y. Times) in Shakespeare's most sublime and difficult role.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What's George's favorite place to go for adventure? The library! George loves to read, because in books you can be a pirate, a spaceman, even a robot! Or learn about photography, strange animals and how to make it snow. What better place for the world's most curious monkey? Each with a companion segment starring real kids.
3) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
4) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.