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In this tense British thriller, Hiller (Bernard Hill), a humble computer expert, and his young stepson get mixed up with a dangerous gang of bank robbers.

Recently fired from his job and abandoned by his wife, Hiller's life is already descending into chaos when he crosses paths with the brutal gang of criminals. Planning an audacious robbery, they take Hiller and his child hostage, and force Hiller to use his technical skills to help them on the job. Once the plan has been put into action, the gang attempts to shake off the police, while Hiller desperately tries to free himself and his son from the crooks' clutches.

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Sir Tony Robinson, the history presenter and former 'Blackadder' star, tells the story of the Great War. How it started, how it changed the world and how it finished with a hundred-day flourish of military brilliance, which finally put an end to four years of incompetence and slaughter.

With the aid of hundreds of amazing archived images of the Great War which chronicle World War 1 from start to finish and breathe new life into the story, Robinson will also show how the Great War changed British people for generations to come - liberating large portions of the working class, powering the rise of the Labour party and breaking the old ties of service to the aristocracy.

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World War II - it lasted six long years and it produced the biggest armies, the longest battle lines, and the most devastating weapons of any war: It summoned up the best and the worst in men and like other wars it confined immorality on such places as Guam, Iwo Jima, and San Pietro.

This video collection is by no means the whole story of the war. Our aim is to cover in words and film some of the most important phases of this "Great War".

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Almost all our recollections of the Second World war are in black and white. But years of research have unearthed hours of previously unseen colour film offering a completely new portrait of the war.

The result is The Second World War in Colour - a remarkable insight into the event that shaped our modern world. Dramatic colour footage from as early as 1933 shows home movies of Adolf Hitler and his cohorts, the devastation wrought by the Blitz, life on the home front, D-Day and the Allied invasion of France, British bombers defying German fighters, the horror of the Holocaust that greeted troops as they entered Germany and the jubilation of VE Day. With John Thaw's narration and spoken accounts from the letters and diaries of those who fought, those who survived, and those the war claimed as victims, this three part documentary is an extraordinary remembrance.

Episodes Comprise:
- A New World Order
- Total War
- Triumph and Despair

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Director Ken Loach's gritty account of a young London woman (Carol White) trying to cope in squalor while her husband (John Bindon) is in jail.

Clutching at any slight chance of happiness, she Has a promiscuous relationship with his best friend (Terence Stamp) which in turn leads to heart-breaking consequences. 'Poor Cow' is a poignant, controversial slice of raw social realism and, in true Loach style, is an imaginative exploration of the thin line separating fiction and real-life.

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Charts the early years of 'HandMade Films' seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison. With unreleased archive interviews and footage with Harrison, exclusive interviews with Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Richard E.

Grant, Neil Jordan, Ray Cooper, and unseen interviews with Bob Hoskins, 'An Accidental Studio' explores HandMade's baptism by fire, the risk it took in producing uniquely crafted intelligent films and the stories that grew up around it...

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Big-city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy that has audiences and critics rolling in the aisles! John Cusack stars as David Shayne, an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground - even if it

means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by a wacky cast of characters, including a gangster's ditzy girlfriend, a mob hit man, and a tipsy actress, Shayne's got to pull it all off before the curtain falls, and the bullets start to fly!

Jefferies (James Stewart), a photographer with a broken leg, takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour (Raymond Burr) of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden.

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Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins), a London stockbroker with a fine war record as colonel of a tank regiment, returns to his Belgravia home to find that there is an intruder in the house - a young armed thug called Ginger Edwards (Michael Medwin), who he remembers well as one of the most fearless and

spirited troopers under his leadership. But why has Ginger taken up housebreaking? And will Merton be able to help him to return to a more honourable way of life?

Originally made in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Frank Capra series 'Why we Fight', The Battle Of Russia examines the various invasions suffered the Russians over the centuries, culminating in the 1941 invasion by 2 million Germans. Here the German blitzkrieg tactics finally met their match.

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Daniel Craig returns one last time as James Bond, starring alongside Oscar winner Rami Malek in 'No Time To Die'. Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) from the CIA turns up asking for help.

The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

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Leslie Phillips, Bob Monkhouse, Patricia Hayes, Harry H.

Corbett, David Jason, Jimmy Edwards and Richard O'Sullivan are just a few of the stars featuring in this collection of comedy plays penned by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - the legendary writing team whose timeless credits include both 'Hancock's Half Hour' and 'Steptoe and Son'. Following the same format that had proved so effective with their earlier run of plays for 'Comedy Playhouse', this series consists of six shows:

1. The Suit
A married man falls victim to a rather embarrassing burglary.
2. Friends in High Places
A 55-year-old wishes to be young again and his wish is granted!
3. Never Talk to Strangers
Two lonely people have a chance to find happiness together.
4. Don't Dilly Dally on the Way
After 23 years in the same bungalow, a couple prepares to move house.
5. Pity Poor Edie...Married to Him
What happens to a marriage when the breadwinner finds she is expecting?
6. An Extra Bunch of Daffodils
A man who has buried five heavily insured wives begins a search for his sixth...

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Smarmy, psychotic fortune hunter Edward "Teddy" Bare (Dirk Bogarde) has a penchant for the older woman... and for murder! Having plied his elderly wife (Mona Washbourne) with alcohol, the modern day Bluebeard leaves her to die from gas poisoning by the fireplace of their stately home.

Having done the nasty however, his wife's fortune soon turns out to be far smaller than Edward realised, and what there is has been entailed away to a distant sister. He sets his greedy sights on the heavily insured barkeeper Freda (Margaret Lockwood). Edward soon grows restless with his crass new wife, who refuses to give him a penny, and instead targets a third wealthy matron (Kay Walsh). She, however, is no fool and has plenty of her own secrets. Secrets that could expose Teddy. Has he finally met his match?

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Tom, (Timothy Spall) an elderly widower, uses his trusty free bus pass to take a series of local buses on a deeply nostalgic trip across the length of the U.K., from John O' Groats to Lands End.

His mission is to fulfil a promise he made to his late wife, to take her back to the place where they first met and lived happily together. Unbeknownst to Tom, his journey, and his unlikely antics on it, begin to capture the imagination of the local people that he comes across and, ultimately, Tom and his trip become a nationwide news story.

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Award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes presents a new eight-part landmark history of ancient Rome. Across the series Hughes explores eight key days that she believes define the Roman Empire and help us to understand its remarkable success.

In each episode Hughes travels across the Roman world, delving into the psyche and uncovering brand new archaeological evidence, while lavish drama brings the incredible story of Rome to life. The eight days include Rome's early defeat of her great rival Carthage under Hannibal, at the battle of Zama; a crucial moment and one of the most important battles in ancient history when Rome, an influential city-state becomes an unstoppable Empire. We also explore the day when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and set in chain a series of events which would ultimately culminate in the end of Rome's republic. The final episode looks at the day Constantine, close to death, was finally baptised as a Christian. It was here he made a final declaration of the spiritual allegiance that had a profound importance not just for the Empire, but for the future of the world.