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Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset.

Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

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'Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters' is the definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of 'Ghostbusters', featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Ivan Reitman.

The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasizes just how ambitious an undertaking the making of 'Ghostbusters' really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make 'Ghostbusters', the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever.

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Deep in a forest near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion used as a special psychiatric hospital for the military. Those who know of its existence and the nature of project Freud refer to it as 'Center Eighteen'.

Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns, which are unaccountable by their services experiences. Determined to establish the true nature and origin of the men's mental illness, the Pentagon enlist Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacey Keach), a brilliant, yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist. Typical of the patients is Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who aborted a space probe. He is convinced that God is a fraud. His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments - they fear the evil within themselves and are afraid that, with a Godless universe, man leads a purposeless existence. Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man, Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic facade of the inmates and of Captain Cutshaw in particular. But as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity and madness assumes an increasingly vague definition, so much so that Kane's colleagues pose with real urgency the question of who is therapist to whom.

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A hilarious parody of the cult classic 'The Exorcist', 'Repossessed' stars the master of comedy spoofs Leslie Nielsen and the original star of 'The Exorcist', Linda Blair.

The devil possesses Nancy's body via her television set while she is watching a religious program, and there follows a side-splitting battle to exorcise the demon with many jokes and gags along the way.

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"In Search of Lawrence of Arabia" is an epic desert adventure following in the footsteps of one of Britain's most iconic figures. In this Bafta award-winning documentary, English explorer and biographer, Michael Asher, retraces T.E.

Lawrence's footsteps across Jordan, around Aquaba, Wadi Rum arid Egypt. Asher recreates Lawrence's amazing camel ride across the Sinai desert as immortalised s in his famous book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. After -the journey Michael Asher returns to London and discovers Lawrence's real experiences in Sinai, recorded in his unpublished pocket diary and now preserved by the British Museum. Consequently Michael Asher's expedition confronts him with the truth behind the greatest claims of Lawrence of Arabia, his desert hero.

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Behind the Scenes

Cecil B. de Mille closed his epic movie-making career with a blockbuster spectacle based on the story of Moses and the Exodus. This 1956 film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, won the Oscar for Best Special Effects, and remains De Mille's masterpiece. This special edition presents a behind the scenes look at the making of 'The Ten Commandments', featuring an introduction to the film by De Mille himself, De Mille on location in Egypt, and newsreel footage of the movie's premiere. Also included in this special edition are detailed biographies of 'The Ten Commandments' two biggest stars, Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. These programmes feature an in depth look at the life and careers of two of Hollywood's larger than life stars.
Show 2: Hollywood Looks at the Bible
When Hollywood makes movies based on stories from the Bible, the results are bound to be spectacular! You can directly access a selection of film clips from some of the best Biblical motion pictures made during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Here is the behind the scenes story of the making of the epic 1962 film, 'Lawrence of Arabia', about the British officer T.E. Lawrence who aids the Arab revolt against the Turks during the First World War.

This special edition programme features rare footage that brings you behind the camera to watch the cast and crew prepare for the filming of this monumental production. This acclaimed movie won numerous awards, including the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, and is on the American Film Institute's list of 100 all-time greatest films. Also included are filmography profiles of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif featuring movie clips from their acting careers.

For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program.

What's a Yuppie ghost couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to do when their quaint New England home is overrun by trendy New Yorkers? Hire a freelance "bio-exorcist" to spook the intruders, of course.

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An epic musical on the pitfalls of love, fame and fortune from visionary filmmaker Leos Carax (Holy Motors), starring Adam Driver (Marriage Story) and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose).

The glamorous lives of a seemingly perfect celebrity couple - a provocative stand-up comedian and an internationally renowned opera singer - take an unexpected turn when their daughter Annette is born with a mysterious gift. An unabashedly unique and unforgettable spectacle, this Cannes Best Director prize winner co-stars Simon Helberg and features an original story and music by Sparks, one of pop's best-loved and most influential cult bands.

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Dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason (Ellar Coltrane) is facing upheaval: his struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston - just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) re-enters their world.

Thus begins a decade of constantly unfolding heartbreak and wonder as Mason swims against the tide of family moves and controversies, faltering marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times and scary times that shape the person he will be.

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In a fantasy adventure, set in a world peopled by creatures of myth and magic, a prince embarks on a quest to find the magical Glaive and then rescues his young bride.

Colwyn (Ken Marshall) is the leader of a mythical sword-and-sorcery group in pursuit of "the Beast" that has kidnaped his fiance, Lyssa (Lysette Anthony).

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Boris Karloff stars in one of his most chilling roles as the sinister 'resurrection man' of old Edinburgh. Medical student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) is apprentice to Dr. 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell), greatest anatomist of the age.

But, as Fettes learns, MacFarlane is not scrupulous how he obtains the bodies he uses for dissection: he buys them from sinister cabman John Gray (Boris Karloff), who robs the graves of the recently deceased. But Gray's grim work has attracted attention and the cemeteries are under watch. Unwilling to give up his lucrative trade, Gray finds another source of corpses - the bodies of people he has killed himself...

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A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), 'Patton' is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of its Oscars went to George C.

Scott for this triumphant portrayal of George Patton, the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and flamboyant, Patton designed his own uniforms, sported ivory-handled six-shooters, and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmaneuvered Rommel in Africa, and after D-Day led his troops in an unstoppable campaign across Europe. But he was as rebellious as well as brilliant, and as 'Patton' shows with insight and poignancy, his own volatile personality was one enemy he could never defeat.

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Generations have celebrated the magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters of Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

Now, this timeless animated classic sparkles like never before with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration and exciting new bonus features! The beautiful and kind-hearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one -her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an enchanted apple, only the magic of true love's kiss can save her!