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Being There (1979)
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Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú. In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Max Payne (2008)
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Directed by John Moore. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris. Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute (2016)
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Directed by John Bridcut. With Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Churchill. A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal ciné films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various ...

70mins. BBC. 21st April 2016.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

Selma (2014)
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Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Russian Ark (2002)
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Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
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Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Dear John (2010)
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas. A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
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Directed by Matt Brown. With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
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Directed by Ken Loach. With Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald. Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

The Black Stallion (1979)
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1h 58m After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.

Ethel & Ernest (2016)
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Directed by Roger Mainwood. With Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Pam Ferris. This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

Grease (1978)
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Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

A Close Shave (1995)
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Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Justin Fletcher, Peter Hawkins. Wallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

West Side Story (1961)
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Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

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The Children Act (2017)
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Jason Watkins, Ben Chaplin. As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

Green Street 2 (2009)
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Directed by Jesse V. Johnson. With John Bariamis, Nicola Bertram, Matt Candito, Lonnie Cayetano. Following the deadly climax of "Green Street Hooligans," several members of the West Ham firm and numerous members of Millwall end up in jail. The GSE quickly discover the brutality of life on the inside, as they are constant targets of the superior numbers and better-financed Millwall crew.

Safety Last! (1923)
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Safety Last!: Directed by Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures

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W1A (2014)
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With Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes, Sarah Parish. Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.

4x30min

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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Directed by David Slade. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Xavier Samuel. As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.

Frozen Planet 1 (2011)
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With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

3x1 hour - Summer, Autumn, Winter.

Crank (2006)
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Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.

Paperman (2012)
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Directed by John Kahrs. With John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley. After meeting the gal of his dreams on a commuter train, an office worker uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention after spying her again in a skyscraper window.

7min

17 Again (2009)
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Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon. Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he meets a janitor near a bridge.

Spotlight (2015)
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Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Rango (2011)
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Denial (2016)
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Directed by Mick Jackson. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott. Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Being There (1979)
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Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Case 39 (2009)
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Directed by Christian Alvart. With Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper. A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.

Pearl Harbour (2001)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott. Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.

Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013)
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Directed by David Trueba. With Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer, Ramon Fontserè. In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.

Frozen Planet 1 (2011)
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With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

3x1 hour - Summer, Autumn, Winter.

In a Better World (2010)
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Directed by Susanne Bier. With Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Crank (2006)
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Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.

The Harmony Game (2011)
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The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album

Doctor Thorne (2016)
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With Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Harry Richardson, Rebecca Front. The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate.

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W1A (2014)
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With Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes, Sarah Parish. Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.

4x30min

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Knight and Day (2010)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà. A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name.

The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016)
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Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888?

60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC.

Save the Cinema (2022)
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Save the Cinema: Directed by Sara Sugarman. With Louisa Cliffe, Krrish Patel, Jonathan Pryce, Beatie Edney. The story of Liz Evans, who lives in Carmarthen South West Wales, who starts a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema.

Duck Soup (1933)
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Directed by Leo McCarey. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx. Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Frozen Planet (2011)
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With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

2x 1 hour episodes. BBC.

Jobs (2013)
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Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. With Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas. The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Furry Vengeance (2010)
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Directed by Roger Kumble. With Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ricky Garcia, Eugene Cordero. In the Oregon wilderness, a real-estate developer's new housing subdivision faces a unique group of protestors: local woodland creatures who don't want their homes disturbed.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas. A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother

Astro Boy (2009)
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Directed by David Bowers. With Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron. When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
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Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott. Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.

Cloud Atlas (2012)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

The Great Escape (1963)
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Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (2008)
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo. Rossini's sparkling comedy is given a new shine here under the direction of Broadway director Bartlett Sher. Count Almaviva is smitten by the feisty Rosina, but she is kept under lock and key by Dr. Bartolo. Send for Figaro to help.

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National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017)
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Directed by Michael Longhurst. With Sarah Amankwah, Hammed Animashaun, Geoffrey Beevers, Karla Crome. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world - and he's determined to make a splash.

Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...

The Phantom of the Open (2021)
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The Phantom of the Open: Directed by Craig Roberts. With Mark Rylance, Ian Porter, Tommy Fallon, David Mara. Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, manages to gain entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification round despite being a complete novice

The Fourth Protocol (1987)
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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.

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Motherhood (2009)
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Directed by Katherine Dieckmann. With Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, David Schallipp. In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney. Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.

Ant-Man (2015)
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Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly. Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Eye in the Sky (2015)
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi. Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

The Ground Truth (2006)
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Directed by Patricia Foulkrod. With Herold Noel, Robert Acosta, Sean Huze, Kelly Dougherty. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal ...

The Boat that Rocked (2009)
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Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.

Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio

The Physician (2013)
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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.

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists

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The Snowman: The Film That Changed Christmas (2022)
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C4. 45 mins. Forty years after The Snowman was first broadcast on Channel 4, the story of how Raymond Briggs' classic tale was made and became a festive British institution.

Dark Shadows (2012)
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Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Toy Story (1995)
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Directed by John Lasseter. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney. A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

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National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017)
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Directed by Michael Longhurst. With Sarah Amankwah, Hammed Animashaun, Geoffrey Beevers, Karla Crome. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world - and he's determined to make a splash.

Yesterday (2019)
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Directed by Danny Boyle. With Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ellise Chappell. 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.

How Wars Begin 1 (1977)
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The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire.

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

The Infiltrator (2016)
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Directed by Brad Furman. With Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan. A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.