Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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2002., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Agnes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial.
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2000, p1947., General, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Blackn Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A group of 5 Anglican nuns attempt to found a hospital and school in the Himalayas. They are overcome by their own human frailties and native suspicions.
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-- Call the midwife.2021., 480, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 10 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call The midwife Volume: 10Summary Note: It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realizes she needs to be a little less spiritual if she's to really connect with the local women. There are some interesting challenges ahead, as well as great celebrations when England wins the World Cup.
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2022., 570 min, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 11 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 11Summary Note: 1967 brings fresh medical and personal challenges to the midwifery and district nursing rounds. Thanks to Matthew2s continued support, things at Nonnatus House are now settled and going well, and Trixie helps Matthew understand the community he is becoming a part of. Doctor Turner faces some changes in his relationship with Timothy now that he is an adult, while Shelagh continues to support community health programs. Across the series, the team faces challenging situations concerning addiction, a baby with a life-threatening condition, breastfeeding difficulties, and a Holocaust survivor.
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2023., BBC Call No: NEW DVD Fic Call 12 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds, Shelagh and Dr. Turner split their time between the busy maternity home and their lively young family, while Reggie continues to bring joy into Violet and Fred's lives.
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-- Call the midwife.2016., Adult, BBC Worldwide Call No: DVD Fic Call 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 5Summary Note: The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
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2017., General, 570, BBC Worldwide Ltd. Call No: DVD Fic Call 6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 6Summary Note: When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
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2018., General, 560, BBC Worldwide Ltd. Call No: DVD Fic Call 7 Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 7Summary Note: "In the old houses and bold new apartment buildings of 1963 London, expectant mothers need more help than ever from the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House"--Container.
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-- Call the midwife.2019., 570, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 8 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 8Summary Note: A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s.
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1999, p1995., Adult, MGM Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Dead Man W Edition: Widescreen and standard versions. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Catholic nun provides spiritual counseling to a man on death row.
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[2009], p2008., Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Doubt Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without any proof, besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn. This threatens to tear apart the community with its irrevocable consequence.
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2014., Music Box Films Call No: DVD Fic Ida Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
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2017., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic LittleH Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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2004, c2002., Adult, distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Magdalene Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three young women are found guilty of a crime they didn't commit and are given indefinite sentences of hard labor in the laundries at the church-run Magdalene Asylum.
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-- In the name of God's poor.2005., General, Hallmark Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic MotherT (1997) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chaplin gives an outstanding performance as Mother Teresa, an extraordinary woman who dedicated her life to the dying and destitute and transformed the world with her courage, faith and love.
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2006., Twentieth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic Mother T (2006) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Biography of the famous nun who ministered to India's poor.