True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen's celebrated novel Mansfield Park.Mansfield Park is the magnificent country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny is ignored by her cousins, with the exception of Edmund, who alone treats her with care and affection. But will she ever be able to win a valued place in the household and the heart of the man of her dreams?
Career-soldier Wilhelm his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm and their friends Charlotte Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin with the promise to meet again after the war. Wilhelm and his brother have been ordered to the eastern front; Charlotte will join them as a nurse in a field hospital there. In Berlin Greta makes a name for herself as a singer with the help of a high-ranking party official. Her Jewish boyfriend Viktor is despatched to a concentration camp in the east. Little do they know how much the unfathomable experiences deprivations and terrors of the war will change them. It is the experiences of friendship and betrayal belief and disappointment illusion and insight guilt and responsibility that will change their lives forever.
A journey through one of britain's most stunning landscapes Discover the miles of rippling heather towering sea cliffs secluded beaches and grassy dales that give the moors a character all of their own.
The Centre Office of Information (COI) was established in April 1946 as a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information. It went on to produce and distribute thousands of films for use across Britain, the Commonwealth and the World. Many famous faces have passed through the portals of the COI including luminaries of the British documentary movement such as Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings and Lindsay Anderson and in later years the likes of Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire) and Peter Greenaway (The Draughtsman's Contract) who spent 15 years there. This 2-disc Blu-ray collection brings together many of the COI's most loved (and in some cases feared) productions including Design for Today, Apaches, Lonely Water and Charley's March of Time. Presented in most cases for the first time in High Definition.
We Love The Royle Family (7 Discs)
A husband she never thought she would see again. Finding out the truth can be deadly. The Widow tells an ambitious, timely story about one woman's quest for the truth in one of the most volatile and lawless areas of the world. Ever since the love of her life, Will, died in a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo three years ago Georgia has lived as a recluse in the Welsh countryside away from civilization and the comforts of 21st-century living. Now, she's flown to Kinshasa in the belief that Will didn't die after all Starring Kate Beckinsale & Charles Dance From the writers and producers of The Missing & Liar Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing
The sudden departure of Stylax and equally sudden arrival of dappy blonde builder Jason (Jonathan Pointing) throws the lives of the Plebs into turmoil. But upheaval gives way to hope when they manage to wangle an abandoned toilet from crooked property developer Crassus (Robert Lindsay) which they decide to convert into Rome's hottest new wine-bar - The Crown and Toga . With Grumio as head-chef, Jason and waterboy/man Aurelius on drinks and Marcus as manager, this could be the boys chance to finally hit the big time and become players in the most exciting city in the world.
Season OneAD43. As the Roman Army prepares to destroy the Celtic land of Britannia, rival warrior women Kerra (Kelly Reilly) and Antedia (Zöe Wanamaker) find themselves working together to fight off the monstrous General Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey), the leader of the Roman invasion.Season TwoTwo years after invading, General Aulus is Romanising cooperative tribes and crushing resistance with the help of Queen Amena (Annabel Scholey), but does he have another agenda? The only form of hope for the Celts and Druids is Cait (Eleanor Worthington-Cox), a young girl who is being trained by outcast Divis (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) to fulfil a prophecy that would save Britannia from the Romans.Season ThreeGeneral Aulus has now fractured and shattered the powerful druids, but his true mission, to capture and kill The Chosen One, remains elusively out of reach - but with forces gathering against her, Cait (Eleanor Worthington Cox) is more vulnerable than she knows. Sophie Okonedo joins the cast.Special FeaturesSix FeaturettesPicture GallerySubtitles
Sanctuary: Series 2 Box Set (4 Discs)
Imogen Stubbs stars in the BBCs critically lauded 1988 adaptation of D.H. Lawrences The Rainbow. Ursula Brangwen (Stubbs) is the beautiful, naive daughter of a wealthy country squire, one of five children living in the Nottinghamshire mining heartland at the turn of the century. From wide eyed sixteen year old to fully grown woman, the drama follows Ursula through the trials and tribulations of her burgeoning personal relationships in her quest to find fulfilment for her developing passionate.
Determined to protect his ranch and his family's legacy by any means necessary, John Dutton (Kevin Costner) turns up the heat in the most epic season of Yellowstone yet. As the violence escalates and alliances shift, the ranch experiences some its most dangerous affairs yet. Don't miss out on a second of this wild season-with an incredible vault of bonus features such as extended episodes, on-set footage, a 30-minute behind-the-scenes journey, AND an array of candid interviews from cast and crew, this season's DVD release gives you some of the most exclusive Yellowstone content out there. Special Features: Behind the Story Inside Yellowstone: Season 2 Costner on Yellowstone: Season 2 Working the Yellowstone: Fight Choreography Only Devils Left - Making Yellowstone: Season 2 Yellowstone Tintype Photography Behind the Scenes Stories from the Bunkhouse Deleted Scenes
Crime drama meets science fiction in this chilling and intriguing ABC series. Undermind, first broadcast in 1965 and starring Rosemary Nicols (Department S), Jeremy Kemp (Z Cars) and Jeremy Wilkin (UFO), is released here for the first time in any format.Detective Sergeant Frank Heriot is healthy, happily married, and has a good job. So what has made him cold and remote towards his family? And why is he suddenly plagued by terrible headaches? Is he mentally ill or is something far more sinister affecting his mind? Gradually, the answer becomes clear: Frank is the victim of an unknown force seeking to undermine public confidence in the people and institutions that form the backbone of the British Establishment. Doctors, teachers, scientists, clergymen and writers and are all among its targets; its ultimate aim is anarchy. Where will the mysterious menace strike next? It could be the man who sits next to you on the bus. It could be you...
'Fall in for laughs' is the order for the day in this colourful wartime-set comedy feature - a box-office hit in 1959 for Girls at Sea director Gilbert Gunn and boasting a top-flight cast that includes Donald Sinden Dora Bryan and Barbara Murray with a notable role for 1956 Olympic gold-medallist Judy Grinham. Presented in a brand-new digital transfer Operation Bullshine charts the misadventures of a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls stationed at an anti-aircraft post on a remote stretch of the English coast - along with the handsome lieutenant in charge of the battery and his wife a fellow-ATS girl who's none too happy about her husband's latest posting... particularly when regulations force them to conceal the fact that they are married! Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs
Delusional show business character Count Arthur Strong, a pompous, out-of-work actor from Doncaster attempts to recount his life story with the help of the scholarly son of his former comedy partner.
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of beautiful minds that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love.
Based on the C.S. Forester's classic adventure stories. Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) a young and shy midshipman rises through the ranks to become an admiral braving bloody engagements at sea and close quarter encounters with passionate ladies every bit as tenacious as his treacherous foes.
The complete third season of the television sci-fi adventure series created by Gene Rodenberry. Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo), frozen in time for three hundred years, must use the Andromeda spacecraft and a crew of mercenaries to restore the galactic Commonwealth. In this series, the Andromeda picks up a group of refugees who have survived torture and imprisonment, Dylan finds himself on the trail of an assassin known as the Leper, and the crew track down a saboteur who destroys the first new Comm.
In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott, Ripper Street), a smart suited homicide detective and his partner Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene, Penny Dreadful) are dispatched to investigate a child's murder, and find a community caught between old and new Ireland. On an altar lies the body of a local teenage girl, the talented Katy Devlin. Her body is found in the middle of an archaeological site, threatened by local developers aiming to build a shiny new motorway. The neighbouring estate, Knocknaree, has never quite got its share of the Celtic Tiger and has been blighted by poverty and unemployment for generations. Moreover, this is the not the first time a child of Knocknaree has been lost twenty-one years earlier, in a very different Ireland, three children went missing, and only one came back alive. Memory runs deep in this part of the world, and locals, press and the Dublin Garda soon begin to worry that the cases are linked. Sarah Phelps (The ABC Murders) brilliantly blends the first two books in the Tana French bestselling Dublin Murder series to deliver an eight-part drama full of psychological mystery and darkness.
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