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Copper: Season 2

~ Various · BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Loyalties will be bought and sold as Detective Kevin Corcoran struggles to tame a lawless New York City.
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Transcendence

Johnny Depp · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Transcendence (DVD+UltraViolet)Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments...
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When Marnie Was There

Hailee Steinfeld · When Marnie Was There (DVD)
Format: DVD

Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she’s outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her. Anna...
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Difret

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari · Truth Aid Media
Format: DVD video

Based on the true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash bwtween cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage,...
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The big burn

Stephen Ives; Timothy Egan; Insignia Films.; WGBH · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with...
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Welcome to Me

Kristen Wiig

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
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Thor

Kenneth Branagh · Paramount Home Entertainment, ©2011.
Format: DVD video

When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
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Agatha Christie's Marple, Series 6

Julia McKenzie · ACORN MEDIA
Format: DVD

Agatha Christie's much-loved heroine is back on the case in these three new mysteries. Julia McKenzie (Cranford) dons Miss Marple's trademark tweeds with wit and flair. These all-new cases see Miss Marple solving mysteries at the grand estates of England and a tropical paradise in the Caribbean....
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Scott & Bailey: Season 5

Suranne Jones · BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Ordinary women, an extraordinary job ... A thrilling investigative drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives, from award-winning writer Sally Wainwright.Detective Constables Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's...
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State of Siege

Costa-Gavras · The Criterion Collection, 2015.
Pages: 16
Format: DVD video

piercingly critiques the American government for helping institute foreign dictatorships while also asking difficult questions about the efficacy of radical violent acts to oppose such regimes.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare · Modern Library; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“They do not love that do not show their love.”—Two Gentlemen of Verona Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the classic comedy of courtship and delicious rivalry. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED...
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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Season 1

Gareth Neame · Carnival Film & Television Limited
Format: DVD video

Product Description Downton Abbey -- a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion nestled in the Yorkshire landscape -- needs an heir. Dame Maggy Smith stars as Violet, the stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic,...
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Kreuzweg

Hanns Zischler · Stations of the Cross (2014) ( Kreuzweg ) [ Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import - United Kingdom ]
Pages: 1
Format: Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import - United Kingdom ]

Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside...
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Nature: Natural Born Hustlers

Gavin Boyland · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD video

A visit with the planet's greatest animal hustlers. Meet the shape shifters, mimics, masters of disguise and illusion, cheats and sneaks in the animal world. This series reveals the modus operandi of remarkable animals going to elaborate lengths to claw their way to the top.
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