Masterpiece Theatre Videos, DVD, Movies, Films, Entertainment

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 4 Hours. Viewers throughout Britain have given rave reviews to this magnificent new adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s beloved romantic tale. Return to Thornfield Hall and experience anew the classic love story of Mr. Rochester and young Jane. Toby Stephens (Die Another Day, Cambridge Spies, The Queen's Sister) and luminous newcomer Ruth Wilson give passionate performances that will sweep you off your feet. A lavish BBC mini-series in the tradition of the BBC's acclaimed Pride and Prejudice, filmed entirely on location at historic Haddon Hall and throughout Derbyshire. As seen on Masterpiece Theatre. 4 Hours. Wide Screen. Starring Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 8 Hours. Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones' Diary, 1995's Pride and Prejudice) turns his talents to one of Charles Dickens' most brilliant novels - arguably the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London. Fresh and imaginative, yet faithful to the original, this thrilling fast-paced adaptation is shot with a contemporary edge. At its heart is the story of the icily beautiful Lady Dedlock (Gillian Anderson, The X Files), who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn (Charles Dance, Gosford Park), who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Jarndyce (Denis Lawson, Star Wars), struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case. Starring Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Denis Lawson. Wide screen. Closed captions. As seen on Masterpiece Theatre. BAFTA Awards: Anna Maxwell Martin - Best Actress 2006 Best Costume Design 2006 Best Drama Serial 2006 Best Editing Fiction Entertainment 2006 Best Production Design 2006 After Dickens tried unsuccessfully to recover damages from a magazine that had pirated "A Christmas Carol", he wrote Bleak House as an expos? of the Court of Chancery. Thanks in part to Dickens, the court was abolished in 1873.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 90 Minutes. An adaptation of James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about a man's death and its impact on his family. Set in 1915, the film recreates Agee's small, painstakingly-drawn world of domestic happiness and shows how quickly it can be destroyed. Cast includes Annabeth Gish, John Slattery, and James Cromwell. The director is Gil Cates.

Masterpiece Theatre video. VHS. 90 Minutes. An adaptation of James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about a man's death and its impact on his family. Set in 1915, the film recreates Agee's small, painstakingly-drawn world of domestic happiness and shows how quickly it can be destroyed. Cast includes Annabeth Gish, John Slattery, and James Cromwell. The director is Gil Cates.

Masterpiece Theatre. 2-PK. DVD. 3 Hours & 15 Minutes. Are there limits to true love? The mysterious Sydney Carton keeps his ardor for Lucie Manette to himself, while assuring Lucie he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. When he is caught in the maelstrom of the French Revolution, Carton's long-ago promise becomes his last hope for redeeming his soul. "A robust, tumultuous, cliffhangered classic," writes the Washington Post.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 2 Hours & 30 Minutes. Could a charismatic British prime minister be toppled without elections, if his controversial agenda alienated the media and U.S. military interests? Not likely? This brutal back-room drama pits a former steelworker and landslide victor, determined to dismantle Britain's nuclear stockpile, facing powerful opponents. PBS Masterpiece Theatre's drama won numerous awards. "What a political thriller ought to be," writes the Washington Post.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 2 Hours. I13-year-old Esmeralda Santiago, called "Negi" (Ana Maria Lagasca), arrives in New York City from rural Puerto Rico with her mother and siblings. Quick to learn English and urban ways, she becomes her family's liaison to the challenges of a new life and discovers opportunities she never dreamed possible.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. DVD. 4 Hours. A woman risks everything to follow her heart in this stunning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful tale of love, marriage, and betrayal in imperial Russia. Helen McCrory stars as literature's most tragic adulteress, with Kevin McKidd as her lover, the dashing Count Vronsky, and Stephen Dillane as her cold-hearted husband.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 3-PK. DVD. 9 Hours & 30 Minutes. Discover the epic saga of love, marriage, heartbreak, and tragedy among the 19th-century Russian aristocracy in Anna Karenina. Young, vivacious, and breathtakingly beautiful, Anna (Nicola Pagett) seems resigned to a passionless marriage of convenience to a powerful older man, Karenin (Eric Porter). But when she meets the dashing soldier, Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson), she risks scandal and ruin to pursue true love. Experience the unbridled passion of Anna's star-crossed affair and its far-reaching effects on her family, friends, and social order in this stirring BBC dramatization of Tolstoy's classic novel.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 3-PK. DVD. 2 Hours & 15 Minutes. Based on a true story, this Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Aristocrats paints an intimate portrait of 18th-century upper-class life in England and Ireland. They were beautiful sisters, a king's great-granddaughter, wives of politicians and peers. But Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox were also well-educated, strong-minded, prone to unconventional idea and even scandal. Based on Stella Tillyard's notable biography.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 2 Hours & 15 Minutes. Theirs was the rarest of royal marriages-a true love match-but their expected life of genteel obscurity vanished with his brother's abdication in 1936. Follow the remarkable story of Britain's King George VI, known to friends simply as Bertie, and his fun-loving wife, Elizabeth, later enshrined in British hearts as the "Queen Mum" during her daughter's reign.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 90 Minutes. At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to live with Mr. Evans, a puritanical shopkeeper, and his timid sister, Lou, in Wales.

Masterpiece Theatre video. VHS. 90 Minutes. At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to live with Mr. Evans, a puritanical shopkeeper, and his timid sister, Lou, in Wales.

DVD. Casanova is the world's most notorious lover, addicted to the pleasures of the flesh. From his glamorous youth in Venice to his old age in an obscure castle, Casanova (played by David Tennant and Peter O'Toole) travels the world, loving many, but unable to find true happiness without the married Henriette (Laura Fraser). An encounter brings back memories as Casanova is dying, and he desperately attempts to see Henriette once more.

2-PK. DVD. 3 Hours & 30 Minutes. Clarissa Harlowe is a wealthy heiress famed for her virtue-and the next conquest of handsome, diabolical con man Lovelace, whose weakness turns out to be his own heart. Masterpiece Theatre presents a glittering version of Samuel Richardson's 18th-century novel, the original tale of "fatal attraction" with an unexpected twist. Starring Sean Bean and Saskia Wickham.

Masterpiece Theatre Video. 4-PK. DVD. 10 Hours & 45 Minutes. The unsung heroes of the Blitzkrieg-Britains's bomb-defusers-fight a battle of suspense against unexploded bombs (UXBs) in the rubble of 1940 London as the battle rages overheard. Their task was to save the survivors before Nazi bombs killed again, and for Lieutenant Brian Ash and the 97th Tunneling Company, no risk was too great to take. Based on actual World War II memoirs.

Combo. Doctor Finlay Sets I - III. Masterpiece Theatre Video. 9-PK. DVD. 16 Hours.

Series I. Masterpiece Theatre Video. 3-PK. DVD. 5 Hours. Troubled by the bloodshed of World War II, Dr. John Finlay sought a personal postwar peace in his native Scotland. The small town of Tannochbrae offered a new beginning--but would his gift for healing other bodies and hearts extend to his own shattered soul? David Rintoul and Annette Crosbie star in this adaptation of A. J. Cronin's timeless work.

Series I. Masterpiece Theatre Video. 3-PK. VHS. 5 Hours. Troubled by the bloodshed of World War II, Dr. John Finlay sought a personal postwar peace in his native Scotland. The small town of Tannochbrae offered a new beginning--but would his gift for healing other bodies and hearts extend to his own shattered soul? David Rintoul and Annette Crosbie star in this adaptation of A. J. Cronin's timeless work.