Summer’s Lease COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163961/
From the DVD box: The minute she sets eyes on it, Molly Pargeter knows that the Tuscan Villa she has found to lease is perfect for her family’s summer holiday. She is powerfully drawn to its rustic beauty and to the enigma of its absentee landlord. Never mind that her husband and teenage daughter are vocally unenthusiastic and that her outrageously extroverted father tricks them into taking him along. As the family goes sightseeing and gathers for candlelit dinners on the terrace, Molly becomes increasingly obsessed with unravelling the secrets of the villa’s owner and of the British expatriates and locals they encounter. Her father lends a hand with the sleuthing while remaining on the prowl, zeroing in on a certain rich widow with whom he shares a romantic past.
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The Monkey King aka The Lost Empire COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198779/
American journalist Nick Orton is caught up in the world of Chinese gods and monsters while on a search for the long lost manuscript to ‘Hsi Yu Chi’ (The Journey to the West) by Wu Ch’eng En. He is accompanied on his journey by a humanoid ape with incredible strength and magical powers, a humanoid pig-man, and his brother-in-arms, an ex-cannibal. Based on one of the greatest stories in Chinese history.
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Under Capricorn COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083498/
Charles Adair arrives in New South Wales from Ireland, eager to make his fortune. He’s tempted into a land scheme by the wealthy Sam Flusky, who hopes that Charles can also help his alcoholic wife, Henrietta. Charles become smitten with a mysterious Young Beauty, but he may put his chance for happiness at risk when he hears about the discovery of gold in the outback. When Charles leaves for Australia in Henrietta has no word from him in months she has nightmares about his fate in the Australian wild and goes back to the bottle. Milly, the domineering housekeeper, returns to ingratiate herself into her master’s life and torment Henrietta and Secret. Henrietta invite Susan to be her companion at the house, and Sam and Henrietta have a Frank discussion about their marriage
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Naruto COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4-5 x265
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409591/
Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village’s leader and strongest ninja.
Audio:English
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Dominion Creek aka An Klondike COMPLETE S 1-2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5016670/
The story of the Connolly Brothers; three Irish emigrants who travel from Montana to the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890’s in the hope of striking it rich.
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The Awakening Land COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076981/
Unschooled homesteader Sayward Luckett couldn’t read her name if you showed it to her, yet she fell in love with and married agnostic, book-learned frontier lawyer Portius Wheeler. Now it’s time to make a life with him in wild, wooded 1790s Ohio Territory. There will be children, seven in all; joy and hardships aplenty; inconstancies of heart; and the enduring legacy of settling a new land. Based on Conrad Richter’s trilogy of novels (he received a Pulitzer Prize for the third), this miniseries nominated for 6 Emmy Awards(r) celebrates the pioneering spirit as it chronicles Sayward’s heroic, unadorned life. Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook (earning two of those six Emmy nominations) lead a strong cast that includes Jane Seymour and W.H. Macy (his first screen credit).
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Prairie Giant The Tommy Douglas Story COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439404/
Profiling the legacy of one of Canada’s most important reformers, Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story explores the life of a social crusader and charismatic leader voted as the greatest Canadian of all time. Fiery prairie politician Tommy Douglas began as a Baptist preacher, but after witnessing injustices and the Great Depression’s poverty in Saskatchewan, Tommy gives up his pulpit for politics and joins forces with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation to institute new laws within Canada’s government. Although blessed with brilliant insight, great speaking skills, and infectious charm, Tommy’s youthful idealism soon causes him to run headlong into opposition from the rich and powerful. This fascinating biopic depicts how Tommy is credited with protecting Canadians from farm foreclosures, instituting government insurance, building roads, bringing electricity to rural communities, forming a Bill of Rights, and establishing universal healthcare in his country.
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A Traveller in Time COMPLETE S01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361249/
Penelope lives in the twentieth century, and it is only when she goes to live with her aunt at Thackers, a remote, ancient farmhouse, that she finds herself travelling back in time to join the lives of the Babington family, and watching helplessly as tragic events bring danger to her friends and the downfall of their heroine, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom they are seeking to rescue.
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