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1) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
2) Coyote waits
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two Navajo policemen search for the truth behind the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market, delving into the underworld of illegal archaeological excavations and Navajo superstition and lore.
4) The American
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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.
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in the tradition of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Two very different women, one shy, one flamboyant, meet and discover a common bond, they are unhappily married. A plot is devised to eliminate the unwanted husbands.
Series
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Isabella Mary Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon. Find out how a woman who couldn't cook ended up producing the world's most famous recipe book and discover the dark secret that led to her early death.
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