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During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved)...
3) Split second
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a moment of madness, a single act causes mayhem and destruction for corporate lawyer Michael Anderson (Clive Owen- Inside man, Closer, Sin city)-a man living on the edge. Always on the go and stressed out from the incessant pressures of work and family, Michael is a tightly-sprung bomb on the verge of exploding.
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince John forms a loving bond with his nurse, Lalla (Gina McKee)....
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A twisted suspenseful romance set during the French Revolution. While men, women, and children fall under the merciless blade of the guillotine, one foppish gentleman, alias the Scarlet Pimpernel, bravely rescues aristocrats from the jaws of death. In the midst of his rescue, he meets and falls passinately in love with Marguerite, France's most celebrated actress.
14) The American
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
16) Love on Iceland
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A Hallmark Channel original movie. Seeking inspiration for work, Chloe gathers her college travel group back together for a trip to Iceland. When Charlie, her ex and a member of the group, shows up uninvited, sparks fly.
17) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
18) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
19) Silent night
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately runtime 1 hr. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christmas Eve, 1944. A German mother and her son seek refuge in a hunting cabin during World War II. When the cabin is invaded by three American soldiers and three German soldiers, she convinces them to keep the peace on Christmas and share dinner.
20) A dog year
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.




