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'Luther' is an epic production recounting one of the greatest revolutionary periods in history - 'The Reformation'. It is the powerful true story of one man confronted with the frailty of human faith and his pursuit of spiritual upheaval in the battle against the corrupt might of an empire.

After a brush with death, which he labels "a fright from heaven", a young Martin Luther abandons his law studies to enter a humble 16th Century Augustinian monastery. Here, under the tutelage of Father Johann his spiritual mentor, he embarks on an incredible journey that will change the face of the world forever. Seeing vice and corruption littering his faith, Luther's defiant crusade is to rid society of Church-sanctioned treachery and fear-mongering. In doing so, he faces charges of heresy, excommunication and even death to uphold his belief in the divine word of his faith and in a better world for the devout followers of Christianity.

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The complete third and final series of the popular British television drama, about Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle), a police constable sent to the small Scottish town of Lochdubh.

In this series, Hamish has to deal with a new WPC trainee, a gang of tough Glasgow villains descends on the island, and Kenneth (Sean Scanlan) enlists TV John (Ralph Riach) to help him steal the real Stone of Destiny.

Redford stars as Joe Turner, a junior analyst in the C.I.A., scrutinising published texts from around the world for coded messages. But once he discovers an unusual anomaly, his own existence comes crashing down, with every error carrying potentially fatal consequences.

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"Brian and Charles" follows Brian (David Earl), a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who spends his days building quirky, unconventional contraptions that seldom work. Undeterred by his lack of success, Brian attempts his biggest project yet.

Three days, a washing machine, and various spare parts later, he's invented Charles (Chris Hayward), an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages. What follows is a humorous and entirely heartwarming story about loneliness, friendship, family, finding love, and letting go.

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Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver.

It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

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"The Kennedys: After Camelot" is an engrossing look at those who carried the Kennedy name - and the expectations of history - following the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Katie Holmes stars as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

Still reeling from the death of her husband, John F. Jack Kennedy, the nation's 35th president and all but crushed by the assassination of her beloved brother-in-law Robert F. Bobby Kennedy, her marriage to Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis provides safety and security for her and her children. It also outrages the American people. But hers is the story of survival, and she returns to the Kennedys to become the rock of the family. Matthew Perry portrays Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy. Challenged to pick up the mantle of his fallen brothers, he spirals downward into the abyss of alcoholism and infi delity. His relationship with Jackie, stormy and emotionally charged, becomes the salvation of his life and, in many ways, the validation of hers.

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When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) hops on a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby.

Romantic complications however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne (Clark Gable), a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story.

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Junior Doctor Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia) has fled a cold, grey England after a broken relationship and decided to fly off in search of adventure with a glamorous hospital job in tropical South India.

Anticipating sunshine, palm trees and picture-perfect beaches; prepared for sacred cows, tuk-tuks and Delhi-belly; what she doesn't expect is everything she finds at the under-resourced and over worked Good Karma Hospital. Run by the no-nonsense Doctor Lydia Fonseca (Amanda Redman) - the Good Karma Hospital turns no-one away - locals, ex-pats or tourists. In the company of laidback, beach-bar owner Greg (Neil Morrissey), and tourists-turned residents Maggie and Paul (Phyllis Logan and Philip Jackson), Ruby adjusts to life in India as she realises that the Good Karma Hospital may be more than just a rundown medical outpost-it might just be home.

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The Danziger Brothers purchased a large abandoned factory that stood close to a vast reservoir in Elstree on the outskirts of London.

Last used to produce aircraft engines for the wartime Royal Air Force, they separated the old workshop into five soundproof studios with cutting rooms and recording suites together with all the provisions and backup of a fully fledged Hollywood movie studio. It was to provide two separate production lines so that both the television series and the cinema features could operate side-by-side, enabling hundreds of artists and technicians to produce over 400 half hour episodes and dozens of cinema features.

Saber of London (The Vise)
The Penny Black: Series 3: Episode 6
An argument over a priceless stamp turns to murder when a stamp dealer is found dead in his office. A rival collector is accused of the crime and the theft of the rare stamp but when he arrives at Saber's office asking for help to clear his name, Saber must determine if he is helping an innocent man or being played for a fool.
Strong Man Out: Series 3: Episode 26
In an audacious daylight robbery an £8000 payroll is stolen from the Diamond Manufacturing Company. When notes taken from the heist begin to appear in circulation and two of the alleged robbers turn up dead Saber must act quickly before anyone else is murdered.

Man from Interpol
Escape Route: Episode 6
Henry Roper is a well respected banker with an impeccable employment record, or at least he was until he decided to steal £100,000 and flee the country for a new life on a tropical island in the South Seas. Hot on his trail is agent Anthony Smith who must bring both the money and Roper back to London.
The Big Racket: Episode 28
When a false passport bearing the name of a missing down-and-out is confiscated at an international airport, Interpol agent Anthony Smith is called in to solve the mystery. Smith soon discovers that this is not the first jet-setting homeless man to have gone missing from a local halfway house. Smith disguises himself and takes up residence at the home but he is playing a dangerous game by using himself as bait.

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Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman fresh off an almost career-ending accident. Colt is persuaded to return to his stunt career when he's told his ex, Jody (Emily Blunt), is directing a film and asked for him specifically.

With hopes of winning back the love of his life, Colt returns to set only to find the movie's leading man missing and production in peril. Ensnared in an increasingly wild conspiracy, he must solve the mystery to save Jody's film and get one last shot with her. What could possibly go wrong?

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A fast drop and a sudden stop awaits Becky (Grace Fulton) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner) as they find themselves trapped 2,000 feet up an abandoned radio tower in the desert. Highly trained and resourceful, these climbers were still not ready for every eventuality.

A series of unfortunate events see their gear and supplies taken from them and as temperatures rise and vultures begin to circle, the chance of survival begins to fall rapidly.

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"The Parallax View", a superb drama about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks among the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate.

When the other seven die in "accidents", the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly trained murderers. But his nightmares pale against the bizarre truth he uncovers.

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Enzo (Jean Reno) and Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean where they shared a love for diving. After Jacques' father dies in a diving accident, the two lose contact.

Now an adult, Enzo is living in Sicily where for six years he has been the uncontested free diving world champion. He sends for Jacques, who is living in the Peruvian Andes, and insists that he competes for the title. Jacques comes to Sicily and easily beats Enzo. The competition mounts as each man dive at increasingly life-threatening depths. But when Jacques' girlfriend Johana (Rosanna Arquette) arrives from New York and pleads for the risk-taking to stop, events takes an unexpected turn, leading to an unforgettably dark, mysterious, and torturously beautiful conclusion...

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Taking Chance is a remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt.

Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. Now, on a trip across America's heartland. Strobl will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional sojourn into the soul of a country mourning not only Phelps, but all of our country's fallen heroes.

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The life and times of Britain's king-in-waiting, from his debauched youth and two marriages to his father's madness and his belated ascent to the throne. George, Prince of Wales (1762-1830) waited almost 60 years to become King, despite his father George Ill's long battle with mental illness.

In his youth the prince (Peter Egan) is a notorious womaniser, gambler and drinker, who runs up huge debts with extravagant renovations of his private palace, Carlton House. At 21 he falls for the charms of Maria Fitzherbert (Susannah York), a twice-widowed Catholic commoner six years his senior. Despite her unsuitability on almost every count, he rushes into a secret marriage. But his father the King (Nigel Davenport), insists he make a 'proper' marriage with his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick (Dinah Stabb), in exchange for support in clearing his debts. That marriage is a disaster as young George refuses to give up Maria - and takes a series of other lovers. When George III succumbs to his first bout of madness in 1788, there's a constitutional crisis. Without a King's Speech, there can be no State Opening of Parliament, and plans are drawn up for a Regency. Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (David Codings) reluctantly agrees with the prince's staunch ally and his own fierce rival Charles James Fox (Keith Barron) that there is only one suitable candidate to assume the duties of the living King. But the King recovers his wits, and the Regency is delayed for another 20 years. Not till our own times would an heir to the British throne wait so long for his coronation.