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Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
2) Amy
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
DVD 781.643 WINEHOUSE
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DVD 781.643 WINEHOUSE
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The incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on our culture and the world we live in today.
3) Barry Lyndon
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An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th century aristocracy.
4) Belle
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"Although Dido Elizabeth Belle ... , an 18th century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle ... and his wife ... , she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer ... who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds"--Container.
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES CAL
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DVD TV SERIES CAL
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A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD DRAMA CHA
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DVD DRAMA CHA
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Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the Olympics. One used his faith in God, and the other his hatred of Anti-Semitism.
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"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES CRO (SET)
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DVD TV SERIES CRO (SET)
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The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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After his explosive regeneration, the Eleventh Doctor awakes to discover his TARDIS is about to crash. After falling from the sky, he pulls himself out of the wreckage to come face-to-face with young Amy Pond. The Doctor promises to take Amy to the stars. But first they must divert an alien plot that could destroy the Earth. The Doctor makes good his promise, and Amy boards the regenerated TARDIS, ready to take to the stars on a series of wild adventures...
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES DOW
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DVD TV SERIES DOW
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All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
11) Dunkirk
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A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. The evacuation was aided by civilians who traversed the English Channel in order to collect the soldiers stranded on the beach.
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James Bond, 007, is sent on a mission to Istanbul to try and acquire a Russian cypher machine known as Lektor from a defecting Russian agent. The evil SPECTRE organization has a plan to steal the decoder. This will grant access to Russian state secrets and irrevocably unbalance the world order. It is up to James to find and take possession of the device first. He must confront enemies that include Red Grant and the ruthless Rosa Klebb. Even as James...
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
DVD 641.815 GRE
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DVD 641.815 GRE
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British amateur bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
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Criterion collection volume 31
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In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
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An orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy. Includes the theatrical and extended versions.
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD DRAMA KIN
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DVD DRAMA KIN
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"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age of...
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD ACTION LAW
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DVD ACTION LAW
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The story of T. E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
18) Love actually
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It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with an office aide; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
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DVD COMEDY MON
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DVD COMEDY MON
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The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.
20) Paddington
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The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined; until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a...