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McDonald's frequently used the UK libel laws to silence it's critics. Major media organisations such as the BBC, Channel 4 and The Guardian quickly apologised when faced with Big Mac's legal team.

But when they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris for handing out leaflets outside their restaurants, McDonald's found themselves desperately trying to control one of the biggest corporate PR disasters in history. For three long years, the 'McLibel Two" defended themselves in court against McDonald's £10 million legal team - and the UK's notoriously oppressive libel laws. Every aspect of the corporation's business was cross-examined from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmental damage and advertising to children. Outside the courtroom, Dave brought up his young son alone and Helen supported herself working nights in a bar. McDonald's tried every trick in the book against them: flying in top executives for secret settlement negotiations and even sending in spies. Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded at the European Court of Human Rights. The result took everyone by surprise - including the British Government. McLibel is not just about hamburgers. It is about the importance of freedom of speech now multinational corporations are more powerful than countries.

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Thirty years following his untimely death, Bruce Lee remains the movies' supreme martial-arts star. His masterful final film 'Enter the Dragon' stands the test of time as the most beloved martial-arts epic in film history.

For its 30th anniversary, this heart-pounding adventure returns to deluxe double-disc edition featuring several mesmerizing documentary extras that examine Lee's family life and incredible achievements, including Dragon producer Fred Weintraub's new retrospective on the making of this benchmark action movie, with newly discovered unseen vault footage of Lee in action. What a kick!

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Evil resides in an unexpected place in this gripping, suspense-filled drama. Macaulay Culkin stars as Henry, an angelic-looking boy who seems loving and loyal to his parents, sister and friends.

Only his cousin Mark (Elijah Wood) sees what lurks behind Henry's smile -secret thoughts and love of deadly games. But when Mark tries to warn Henry's family, they won't believe him, leaving the terrified youngster alone to battle his jealous, menacing cousin.

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Lots of people were within earshot when blustery Major Palgrave (Maurice Evans) offered to show an incriminating photo to wily Miss Jane Marple (Helen Hayes).

But which one took the dastardly step of ensuring the Major could never again make the same offer? There's no vacation from crime-solving when a doctor-prescribed stay in the West Indies plunges shrewd Miss Marple into 'A Caribbean Mystery'. Suspects (including Swoosie Kurtz and Barnard Hughes ), charming resort vistas, new victims, steadily mounting clues and a desperate race against time to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again - all give shape to a multilayered whodunit based on Dame Agatha Christies novel. All in all, a perfect vacation.

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Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David (Brian Landis Folkins) searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother (Kathleen Brady). While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal.

Hosted by the charming and charismatic Andy (Wil Wheaton), the tape offers him much-needed company, compassion, and friendship. But Andy's friendship comes at a cost.

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

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Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue), a fun-loving teenager, plans a quiet evening watching a neighbour's three kids.

But when her frantic friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) calls and begs to be rescued from the dangers of a dingy downtown bus station, a dull evening explodes into riotous, hair-raising adventures! During the terrifyingly hilarious expedition, the youths get chased by desperate gangsters...sing for their lives in a seedy blues nightclub...and escape the knives, chains and bullets of warring teenage gangs.

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Vic Brown (Alan Bates), whose life comes apart at the seams when he begins a relationship with typist Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie).

Ingrid falls pregnant, and thanks to the interference of their friends, neighbours, and - worst of all - her tyrannical mother (Thora Hird), they are forced into marriage. Ingrid's subsequent miscarriage and the strain of living with the mother-in-law from hell, means that the relationship quickly sours. But the couple decide to persevere in the hope of finding 'a kind of loving'.

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When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is hound to occur.

Helen Hayes returns as spinster sleuth Jane Marple and Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey) plays the crafty inspector who teams with her in this engaging, twisty case of country-house intrigue. Someone may be slowly poisoning the aging lady of the manor (the great Bette Davis in one of her last roles). Everyone but her dutiful husband (John Mills) has a motive. The snappish housekeeper? The pompous school kid? The gun-collecting American? The uneasy psychiatrist? The embittered daughter? It could be one of them. Some of them. None of them. People are dying - but not the elderly grande dame of Stonygates!

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Rebellious high school student Tom Majelewski (Tom Bresnahan) is sent to a famed pyschological research institute, where he is unwittingly subjected to mind-control experiments conducted by the institute's mysterious founder, Dr. Blake (David Gale).

Plagued by hallucinations, Tom soon learns the institute's terrible secret - an enormous human brain, capable of inducing people to commit random acts of horrible violence. When the brain's hunger becomes insatiable, it remains for Tom alone among the hypnotized citizens to fight off the gruesome threat.

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The 21st Century. Information is the ultimate commodity. The most valuable of information is transported in Mnemonic implants in the heads of professional couriers like Johnny (Keanu Reeves), who offer both security and confidentiality for the right price.

But Johnny has paid a heavy price of his own - he's dumped his own memories to make room for the programmes he smuggles. To buy them back, he agrees to deliver priceless data, the most important data of the 21st Century, data that has already set an army of professional killers on his trail. But the massive upload is too much for his brain and Johnny must find the secret codes to download the information - or die.

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In season two of this drama series, android partners Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), along with their brood of six human children, join a newly formed atheistic colony in Kepler-22b's mysterious tropical zone.

But navigating this strange new society is only the start of their troubles as Mother's "natural child" threatens to drive what little remains of the human race to extinction.

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After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

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A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios, available for the first time on home video in the UK, this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families.

It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon, a brutish alcoholic, and Eleanor, a nervous wreck, are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away, Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition, and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)?

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The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction.

Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way as the final chapter of human history is coming to a close...