Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015) #547 Remove Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015. | |
Macbeth (2001) #322 Remove Directed by Gregory Doran. With Richard Armitage, Diane Beck, Ken Bones, Glenn Chapman. A television adaptation of the classical Shakespeare play. | |
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Mo (2010) #677 Remove Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. |
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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) #1149 Remove Directed by Peter Jackson. A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war. Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there. |
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Great British Railway Journeys: York to Frizinghall (2018) #1102 Remove 30 mins. BBC. Series 9. Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate. |
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Show Boat (1951) #966 Remove Directed by George Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown. The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour. |
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016) #1435 Remove Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him. |
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The Nativity (2010) #612 Remove With Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd. Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand. 4x30min. BBC |
Tannhäuser (2008) #601 Remove Directed by Patrick Buttmann. With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Roman Trekel. Opera. Wagner. Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. | |
Tannhäuser (2008) #601 Remove Directed by Patrick Buttmann. With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Roman Trekel. Opera. Wagner. Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. | |
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Cold War (2018) #1308 Remove Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza. In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. |