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Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure is a unique sociological TV experiment.

Featuring Oz Clarke - renowned wine authority, Francophile and former Wine Tasting Champion of the World - as he attempts to reveal the wonder of the world's most complex viniculture to James May - a beer drinker who admires the Renault 4 but can identify a wine only as being 'nice' or 'nasty'. The results are often ugly and embarrassing for Britain. This is what happens when two grown men spend a month together in a car arguing bout who's going to drive and weather or not it is acceptable to eat with your fingers in the Chateau of a French aristocrat. French wine, for many people, is a subject shrouded in mystery and confusion and following Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure, it remains so. Can you make your own wine in a bucket Should you spit or sallow? And where does this tent pole go?

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This program, culled from the over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera.

Even more intriguing is the fact that Nixon agreed to appear on camera with no pre-interview preparation or screening of questions.

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An exclusive four-part documentary chronicling the creative process of the legendary filmmaker, re-edited from the original NHK broadcast version with cooperation from Studio Ghibli.

Covering the development periods from 'Ponyo' (2008) to 'The Wind Rises' (2013), Hayao Miyazaki is shown as a passionate artisan, a steadfast trailblazer, and a father butting heads with his son.

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A revealing insight into some of the more personal incidents in the lives of past British Prime Ministers at one of the most famous houses in the world, Number 10 Downing Street.

From David Lloyd Georges mistress to Gladstone being tailed at night by the police round the brothels of London, this fascinating historic drama series features seven very different political figures and the scandals they faced whilst trying to govern the country.

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The name of Benjamin Disraeli (Ian McShane) has gone down in history - not only because of his political achievements but also his colourful personality.

He was the most flamboyant, theatrical and controversial figure ever to stride across the political scene during the nineteenth century - turbulent, astute, tenacious yet easily and often hurt. This outstanding television series tells the intimate story of his long and determined rise to power against overwhelming odds.

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The Great War 1914-1918 was the first truly global conflict and it fundamentally changed the course of European and World history. Its impact on the history of the 20th Century up to the present day is enormous.

This feature covers the historical setting of the Great War from Sarajevo and the fall of the Austro - Hungarian Empire and explains how aircraft tanks and other new technology were developed for use in the war and tells the story of each major battle on the Western Front from Mons through to Verdun and the Somme. It also covers how Great Britain called on all the countries of the Empire for support in its hour of need with the role of America in the war fully explained. 1919 finally brings peace to Europe with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. With over 150 fascinating images including original French and German maps of the Western Front this is a compelling history of the Great War.

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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California.

Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown.

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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After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's (James Stewart) interest shifts from business to fascination with the icy, alluring blonde. When tragedy strikes and Madeleine (Kim Novak) dies, Scottie is devastated.

But when he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future.

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Alfred Hitchcock's landmark masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening.

No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), the ill-fated traveller whose journey ends in the notorious "shower scene". First a private detective, then Marion's sister (Vera Miles) searches for her, the horror and the suspense mount to a terrifying climax where the mysterious killer is finally revealed.

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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On a cold, bright autumn day in Suffolk, England, a little girl in a red mackintosh drowns in a pond-the daughter of John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie).

Trying to recover from the tragedy, the couple arrive in Venice, Italy, where John has been commissioned to restore a church. In the eerie atmosphere of the lagoon city in winter, they encounter two strange sisters. Laura is suddenly released from her grief when one of them, a blind psychic, tells her that she is in contact with her dead daughter. Angered and sceptical, John carries on with his work, but witnesses an unsettling vision of his own: a little girl in a red mackintosh disappearing into the Venetian alleys. As Venice and his fate close in on John, illusion, reality and sudden terror spiral the story to its grotesque climax.

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Louis Mazzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis (Dennis Price) were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next Duke (Alec Guinness) of the family.

Murdering every potential successor is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal.

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This Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.

Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), a young ballerina, becomes torn between her love for composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) and artistic devotion to her profession, which is dominated by impresario Lermontov.

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Experience the excitement and the terror felt by movie-going audiences when R.K.O. released the original monster classic.

Behold the discovery of the giant ape King Kong on Skull Island, his terrifying battle against the prehistoric creatures that live there, and his brutal murder of the ship's sailors that follow him. See King Kong's voyage to New York and his fatal attraction to the beautiful Fay Wray, leading to death and destruction as Kong pursues her through New York City. Witness the awe-inspiring finale as Kong ascends the Empire State Building, only to be shot down by fighter pilots in a breathtaking display of 1930's aerial photography.