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Lee Miller, an American photographer, who served as model and muse to Man Ray died in 1977 after an extraordinary life.

From her first steps as a nude model photographed by her father, and then by Man Ray, to the series of photographs that she took of Montparnasse in the thirties and the ones as a war correspondent, she said never to have lost a minute of her life. Sylvain Roumette brings this exceptional and true adventures in photography back to life. Two voices: her son and the photographer David Scherman guide us through the life and career of Lee Miller, a major artist became a twentieth century icon.

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This hard-hitting anthology series continued the single-play format that had proved so successful with ITV's legendary 'Armchair Theatre', presenting six contemporary plays by writers at relatively early stages in their careers.

The plays are both compelling and provocative: Stephen Poliakoff's 'Hitting Town' is an intense portrayal of siblings who find refuge from their bleak lives in one incestuous night; Roger McGough's 'The Lifeswappers' is a darkly comic take on the theme of exchanged identities; Howard Brenton's 'The Paradise Run' centres on an inexperienced soldier in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

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In a vividly realised post-apocalyptic London, Mrs Ethel Shroake is crowned Queen and Lord Fortnum awaits his imminent transformation into a bedsitting room.

Meanwhile, seventeen-months pregnant Penelope and her parents, having eaten all the chocolate bars on the Circle Line, leave the safety of their underground carriage to find her a husband and finally reclaim their baggage.

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This unique collection of 8 short, erotic, silent black and white films was shot in Hollywood by Cine Art Productions in the 1920s using studio stages after hours and starring wannabee starlets.

The films are fun and innocent by modern day standards - girls disporting themselves without clothes in a selection of situations and stories, on the beach, hiding in caves, dressing up in revue... The films were found next to a hand grenade in an air raid shelter in West Hampstead, the reels of film stored in canisters hidden both from the bombs and prying eyes.

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Ken Russell's sensuous film version of DH Lawrence's The Rainbow follows his Academy Award Winning adaptation of Women In Love and stars Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe and Glenda Jackson.

Set in the Midlands of Victorian England, The Rainbow tells the story of a rebellious young woman who after defying her parents and society's morality, engages in an unbridled and passionate affair first with her beautiful school teacher, Then with a fascinating young soldier , before setting out on her own to capture the fuller sensuality of life itself.

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Ursula Brangwen (Imogen Stubbs) is the beautiful, naive daughter of a wealthy country squire, one of five children living in the Nottinghamshire mining heartland at the turn of the century.

From wide-eyed sixteen-year-old to fully grown woman, the drama follows Ursula through the trials and tribulations of her burgeoning personal relationships in her quest to find fulfilment for her developing passionate and sensual nature. This highly acclaimed three part mini-series was Imogen Stubbs' breakthrough role while the supporting cast includes Kate Buffery as Ursula's swimming instructor Winifred Inger and Tom Bell as Old Tom Brangwen. Martin Wenner plays soldier Anton Skrebensky with Jon Finch as Uncle Tom. Atmospheric, sensuous and haunting, this production is widely considered one of the finest -adaptations of D.H. Lawrence's controversial and ground breaking novel, one of the greatest works in all English literature.

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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission.

In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them.

Working in secret for the Air Ministry at his remote country house laboratory, John Barrington (Leslie Banks) is key to the ongoing war effort against the Nazis. Barrington's household, however, has been infiltrated by enemy agents who plan to take him back to Berlin as prisoner.

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After the war, Jim Harding (Douglass Montgomery) is desperate to put his knowledge of chemistry to good use but his wife's greed forces him to sell potions for baldness and stomach disorders in a fairground booth on Blackpool's Golden Mile.

His marriage hits rock bottom when his wife Diana (Patricia Burke) dates a theatrical impresario behind his back and Jim falls in love with the beautiful Jane Thompson (Hazel Court), who runs the candyfloss stall opposite. But Jim's newfound happiness is cut short when his wife finds out about their affair and refuses to give him a divorce. As their marriage disintegrates into constant bickering, Jim takes a walk along Blackpool's crowded shore and decides to murder his wife...

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Over a century ago, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales filming the everyday lives of people at work and at play. For 70 years, 800 rolls of their early nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a local shop in Blackburn.

Miraculously discovered by a local businessman and painstakingly restored by the British Film Institute, this BBC series details the story and treasures of the most exciting film discovery of recent times. The BBC and the British Film Institute bring all this onto the screen with 'The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon'. Presented by Dan Cruickshank, this series opens up the past and boasts a world exclusive: the first ever footage of Manchester United. Along the way, we interview descendants seeing extraordinary films of their ancestors for the first time.

1. Life and Times
The films are discovered by Peter Worden and restored by the BFI's National Film and Television Archive. The story of Mitchell and Kenyon begins with bustling streets at home and controversial war abroad.
2. Sport and Pleasure
For the first time, the British worker starts enjoying new leisure, swelling crowds at football matches at Preston North End, Liverpool and Manchester United. People flock to holidays in Blackpool and to egg rolling at home.
3. Saints and Sinners
To conclude this extraordinary series, we see the first ever crime reconstruction film, the success of Mitchell and Kenyon in the USA and the ultimate demise of their partnership.

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Cold, hungry and disillusioned, the Russian factory workers of Petrograd staged a demonstration about a lack of bread during the winter of 1917.

Incredibly, this protest for bread proved the catalyst for revolution and brought about the subsequent abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, ending years of imperial rule. Following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II the people of Russia rushed to form self governing Soviet councils and a temporary Provisional Government was created, promising elections. However, a charismatic revolutionary by the name of Vladimir Lenin was keen to make the revolution his own. With the help of the sailors of Kronstadt, a mighty force at the time, Lenin swept aside the Provisional Government in a second revolution that gave power to his Bolshevik party. Once he had secured control Lenin closed the democratic assembly and created a police state... and that was just the beginning! "The Russian Revolution" uses dramatised and colourised archive material to tell the astonishing story of one of history's most extraordinary social movements.