New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science (2015)
8.1/10
Director: David Sington, Simon Lamb
Geologist Simon Lamb takes a look at what's really happening with global warming, filming scientists at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean,... Read more
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
7.5/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Robert Walker, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Phyllis Thaxter
This exciting true-life adventure is about the first bombing attack on Tokyo during WW II. It follows Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and his m... Read more
Timbuktu (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Starring: Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri
We are the guardians of all deeds since we arrived in this territory. So states one of the self-described jihadists who, with his colleagues and som... Read more
Tootsie ( Blu-ray ) (1982)
7.4/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Bill Murray, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Jessi...
Dustin Hoffman plays an unemployed actor who dons women's clothing and becomes a great success in a popular tv soap opera. He also falls in love with... Read more
Torture Garden (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Freddie Francis
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Maurice Denham, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams
Sideshow psychic Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith) predicts the horrific futures of some curious fairground visitors. Wealthy Colin (Michael Bryant) find... Read more
Tosca (1976)
8.5/10
Starring: Sherrill Milnes, Placido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska
Gianfranco de Bosio's compelling film of Puccini's 'Tosca' uses the actual historical settings specified by the composer. Against these spectacular Ro... Read more
Trainspotting ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Ro...
A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more
Tulip Fever (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Judi Dench, Kevin McKidd, Tom Hollander, Christoph Waltz, Jack O'Connell, Zach G...
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Read more
Un village francais: Volume 6 ( A French Village ) (2016)
8.4/10
Starring: Robin Renucci, Emmanuelle Bach, Nade Dieu, Audrey Fleurot, Marie Kremer, Francoi...
Volume 6 contains Series 7. Autumn 1945. And so, after years of war, the peace has arrived, and with it comes the commissions and the public hearings... Read more
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
7.4/10
Director: Herman Shumlin
Starring: Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Paul Lukas
Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas), with his American-born wife, Sara (Bette Davis), and their three children, returns to the Unite... Read more