The Library has a huge collection of DVDs, with something to cater for all tastes. We even have a children’s section to help you entertain the grandchildren when they come to stay.

All DVDs are catalogued and separated into sections to help you find one to suit. A list of newly-added titles is also available to help you choose and if there’s a particular film, TV series or documentary you wish to see then one of our volunteers can easily check our database to see if what you want is in our collection.

27 NEW TITLES WERE ADDED THIS MONTH (New releases red star)

DA477: X-MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE: The early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the Special Forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine.

DA479: WATCHMEN: In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it

DA480: KNOWING: M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

DA481: BLADE TRINITY: Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula.

DA483: THE LAST LEGION: As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

DA486: THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick (Vin Diesel) arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.

DA487: FLYBOYS: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country’s first fighter pilots.

DA488: V FOR VENDETTA: In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of “V”, plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.

DA489: SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

DA491: VAN HELSING: The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein’s research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.

DA492: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.

DA498: THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

DC190: ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES: Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather’s house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.

DL454: BILOXI BLUES: A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.

DL455: ALMOST FAMOUS: A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour

DL456: THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: The Little Shop of Horrors is a farce about an inadequate florist’s assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film employs an original style of humour, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humour and elements of spoof.

DM159: YESTERDAY: A struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.

DM166: BEST OF BOWIE: 2 DVDs of David bowie’s best songs.

DS478A: CADFAELSERIES 1: This detective series is set in the 12th century in England,

DS478B: CADFAEL SERIES 2: mainly at the Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury where
DS478C: CADFAEL SERIES 3: Brother Cadfael lives. The titles are from books by
DS478D: CADFAEL SERIES 4: Ellis Peters, who wrote The Cadfael Chronicles.

DS479B: RED DWARF SERIES 2: The adventures of the last human alive and his friends,
DS479G: RED DWARF SERIES 7: stranded three million years into deep space on the
DS479H: RED DWARF SERIES 8: mining ship Red Dwarf.

DV1317: EMPIRE OF THE SUN: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

DV1318: MICHAEL COLLINS: Neil Jordan’s historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

HEADING FOR THE LIBRARY SHELVES for November, our latest DVD additions feature an eclectic mix of genres and big-names. Variously they feature the pen of J K Rowling, star names such as Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, Donald Sutherland and Michael Douglas, not forgetting four of the biggest UK actress dames stage and screen has yet produced, namely Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith.

The Library has a huge collection of DVDs, with something to cater for all tastes. We even have a children’s section to help you entertain the grandchildren when they come to stay.

All our DVDs are catalogued and separated into sections to help you find one to suit you. A list of newly-added titles is available to help you choose and if there’s a particular film, TV series or documentary you wish to see then one of our volunteers can easily check our database to see if what you want is in our collection.

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