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Victoria & Abdul (2017) #1112 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. |
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Robson Green and the Pitmen Painters (2011) #776 Remove ITV. The story of the Pitmen Painters, a group of Northumbrian miners who decided to study art appreciation in their spare time and developed into a group of untrained but powerfully expressive artists, has been documented in a book by William Feaver and a play by Lee Hall. Robson Green's particular interest in the story stems from the fact that he's a miner's son, brought up in Dudley, a few miles south of the pitmen's hometown of Ashington. | |
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The Damned United (2009) #1314 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United. |
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The Fourth Protocol (1987) #1297 Remove Directed by John Mackenzie. With Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy. John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries. Courtesy of The Daily Mail |
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The Physician (2013) #950 Remove Directed by Philipp Stölzl. With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby. In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. |
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On Expenses (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. Drama about American journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses under the Freedom of Information Act, resulting in one of the defining political scandals of the decade. | |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) #264 Remove Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |
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Waltz with Bashir (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Ari Folman. With Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. |