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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the witch hysteria of 1692. Three Sovereigns for Sarah offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London. Nurse Trixie receives a proposal, and tempers fray when she gets carried away with wedding plans. Nurse Cynthia starts to think about becoming a nun, something that shocks both Trixie and Patsy. And an unexpected set of events sees Chummy take on the challenge of running a mother and baby home for unmarried girls. Elsewhere two new nurses join the...
4) Klimt
Publisher
One World Digital
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich), whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm return to star in a second series inspired by the works of Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov. Revisiting the small village of Muryevo in 1918, we find the Young Doctor battling an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his older self, the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital and the efforts of his medical staff, the Civil War and the distractions of a beautiful young aristocrat,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a life of hardship. Trapped at home with very few opportunities, they share the burden of supporting their father and their troubled brother, but Charlotte sees that writing novels could offer a way out. Acclaimed screenwriter Sally Wainwright creates “a bleak and brilliant portrayal” (The Guardian) of the sisters’ extraordinary battle for recognition.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters — doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists — realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
8) Emily
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
EMILY imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, Wuthering Heights. Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. Set in the 1950s, this six part series is a moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in London's East End. We are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in 1950s East London. The team at Nonnatus House return for a fifth series, in which Shelagh rushes to put together a children's choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the adventures of Jedrington Secret-Past, upstanding family man and owner of The Old Shop Of Stuff, where he sells a plethora of miscellaneous odd things. But with every good-hearted hero, there must come a villain. Enter Malifax Skulkingworm - a lawyer with a heart of flint, an unusual evil hat and a decidedly sinister plan to ruin Jedrington and incarcerate his family. But this is no ordinary Dickensian tale. Bleak Old Shop of Stuff is...
13) Esther
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Experience the Bible story of Esther, who infiltrated the King of Persia's harem in order to stop a planned genocide of Jewish people, saving many innocent lives.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The midwives return to deal with all the problems 1950s London can throw at them as this award-winning drama continues. A very old and dirty woman dressed in rags is fascinated by the newborns, much to the disgust and fear of the mothers. But is there more to this woman that anyone realises? When a baby is abandoned at Nonnatus House at Christmas, the nuns wonder who would be desperate enough to do such a thing. And word soon spreads that Dr Turner...
16) The Libertine
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Raine and Miranda Hart return for more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. This series sees Chummy, PC Noakes and baby Freddy back in the East End, Sister Bernadette, now known as Shelagh since leaving the convent, preparing for her wedding to Dr Turner and Jenny facing huge challenges both personally and professionally. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life and death in a community on the brink of...
18) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters -- doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists -- realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
19) Love Gets a Room
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, LOVE GETS A ROOM is the story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or to escape the Warsaw ghetto. Told in real time like Cortés’ acclaimed Buried, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances.