Weapons of War: US Navy Carriers (Not Rated)
This DVD traces the fascinating rise of the biggest warships
the world has ever known. Find out how
US air power evolved from early biplanes landing on converted battleships to
sophisticated warplanes on enormous modern supercarriers. Discover everything you need to know about
the most powerful and flexible war machines in existence, and why the first
question the president is likely to ask in an international crisis is, “Where
is the nearest carrier?”
Exile (2011) (Not
Rated)
After his successful London career implodes, journalist Tom
Ronstadt returns to his hometown in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years
and finds his father Sam in the grip of Alzheimer’s. This once formidable man and Tom’s childhood
hero is now being cared for by his younger sister Nancy. Tom is determined to unravel the mystery that
drove him away from home all those years ago, but he becomes increasingly
frustrated with his father’s failure to remember. He persists, unaware that he is unearthing a
devastating crime that will reveal secretes he never could have imagined.
A Mind to Kill
(Series 1) (Not Rated)
Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Noel Bain, a man who looks
back fondly to the days when policing involved chasing villains, playing rugby
and drinking beer. However, he has come to realise that contemporary policing
imposes dilemmas that no training manual could ever anticipate. He is a man out
of time and seeks to protect the old way of life, and what he believes are
important traditional values.
MI-5/Spooks (Series
6) (Not Rated)
The primary storyline of Series 6 follows Iran seeking the
ability to manufacture its own nuclear weapons and searching for sellers of
nuclear armaments components. The governments of several nations (principally
the United States and its CIA, Russia's FSB, and a shadowy third organisation
composed of disenfranchised members of other agencies, including MI5) are woven
throughout the plot. Simon Abkarian plays the Iranian Special Counsel liaising with
the various governments, Agni Scott as his wife, Matthew Marsh as the CIA
station chief, and Robert Glenister as the British Home Secretary, all have
recurring roles throughout the series.
Special Branch
(1969-74) (Not Rated)
This gritty, realistic police procedural focuses on the
Special Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police-a force dedicated to stopping
terrorist activities and countering espionage in the nation’s capital. With an exceptional cast that includes George
Sewell, Patrick Mower, and Richard Leech, Special Branch is a suspenseful ride
through the underbelly of Britain’s international affairs.
Vera (Not Rated)
The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera
Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If
she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile
and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth.
Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and
professionalism.
Wycliffe (Series 1)
(Not Rated)
When murder
strikes in Cornwall, Detective Superintendant Wycliffe is there to solve
it. Always calm, but serious, the
quick-thinking detective works tirelessly, his mind piecing together each crime
with breakneck speed and dead-on accuracy.
He can spot a liar at a glance and no suspect is spared his ruthless
interrogation. Each time Wycliffe and
his team of investigators arrive on the
scene, the drama unfolds and suspense heightens as they close in on the guilty
and swiftly become a killer’s worst nightmare.
The Wyvern Mystery
(Not Rated)
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has
been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in
Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and
falls in love with one of his two sons. When the squire makes his romantic
intentions known to Alice, she and Charles elope, incurring the wrath of his
father. They avoid the squire by living in an outlying estate where their baby
is born. Charles is attacked by a mysterious woman who literally comes out of
the woodwork, and the baby is moved to the home of an acquaintance of Harry,
the squire's other son. Alice faces the loss of her child and possible loss of
her husband amid the gloomy home she feels trapped in, surrounded by secrets
and mysteries and wondering who she can really trust.
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