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Robin Williams shakes up 1965 Saigon as irreverent, non-conformist deejay Adrian Cronauer. Imported by the army for an early a.m. radio show, Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humour and the hippest tunes from back home. The GI's love him - but the top brass is outraged! Riddled with side-splitting comic bombshells and studded with hot '60's hits, the film depicts Cronauer's raucous Saigon adventures and a world gone mad. - Director:
- Barry Levinson
- Cast:
- Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran
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Apocalypse Now (1979)Apocalypse Now Redux / Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier / Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the madness of the Vietnam War. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) receives orders to seek out a renegade military outpost led by the mysterious Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Willard's mission: "Terminate with extreme prejudice". - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
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- Martin Sheen, Hattie James, Marlon Brando
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Set in the mid-1970's and reflecting the complexities of that turbulent decade, 'Bill Brand' stars Jack Shepherd as a newly elected left-of-centre Labour MP who struggles to reconcile socialist principles with the realpolitik of Westminster. This groundbreaking and unashamedly intelligent drama series is penned by Oscar-nominated dramatist Trevor Griffiths, and earned a BAFTA nomination for Jack Shepherd. A by-election in the solidly working-class constituency of Leighley sees Bill Brand, a former lecturer, elected to Parliament by a slim majority. Driven by a determination to improve the lives of his textile-worker constituents, he finds his ideas of representation are provocatively different from those of the whips; and in a world of oblique negotiations and hidden bargains - the uncomfortable realities of a minority government - Brand's fundamental belief in the Party is assailed by doubts, while his troubled personal life further endangers his tenuous political career. - Director:
- Roland Joffé
- Cast:
- Jack Shepherd, Allan Surtees, Lynn Farleigh
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)El laberinto del fauno
Visionary director Guillermo del Toro creates a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan's Labyrinth, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar era of Fanco's Spain. Pan's Labyrinth unfolds throught the eyes of Ofelia, a young girl uprooted to a remote military outpost commanded by her new stepfather. Powerless and lonely in a place of great danger, Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human after she discovers a neglected labyrith behind the family home. There she meets Pan, a fantastical creature who challenges her with three tasts which he claims will reveal her true identity. - Director:
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cast:
- Ivana Baquero, Pablo Adán, Ariadna Gil
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Wall (2004)Mur
"Wall" is a personal cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which filmmaker Simone Bitton documents the construction of the massive separation barrier that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world. Bitton utilises her shared Jewish-Arab identity to talk impartially to people on both sides, blurring the lines of hatred in this troubled region. She highlights some of the ironies - from the Palestinian construction labourers grateful for the work, to the concrete factory where business is booming - and also examines how the wall represents security for one people and virtual imprisonment for the other. Compelling and thought-provoking, 'Wall' offers a last glimpse of the beauty of this land and the humanity of its inhabitants as they disappear behind a shield of iron and concrete. - Director:
- Simone Bitton
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House of Cards (1990)Ein Kartenhaus
'House Of Cards' is a delicious tale of greed, corruption and burning ambition. At its heart is Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a black-hearted villain with a smiling face, who shares with the viewers his estranged humour and innermost thoughts to destroy each of his political rivals. One by one his opponents tumble, until at last there is just one wild card left in the pack... - Director:
- Paul Seed
- Cast:
- Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, Miles Anderson
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The highly acclaimed BBC series 'Inside the Commons', produced by Atlantic Productions and presented by Michael Cockerell, was filmed with unprecedented access to the House of Commons. Travelling deep inside the corridors of the Palace of Westminster this series reveals what really went on behind the scenes during a remarkable year in politics, in the run up to one of the most unpredictable general elections ever. 'Inside the Commons' follows Ministers and MPs high and low as they seek to navigate the machinery of the House, to make laws and fight their constituents' battles. 'Inside the Commons' will also introduce the nation to the people who keep the Commons working, from the keepers of Big Ben, the Hawker responsible for keeping pigeons off the 19th-century stonework to the gospel-singing tea lady of the Members' Tea Room. It's no easy task. From crumbling stonework to leaky roofs, the series shows the challenges faced as staff strive to keep the country's most iconic and historic building functioning as a modern parliament. - Director:
- Max Baring
- Cast:
- Michael Cockerell, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ed Miliband
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2018 marks 100 years since the first women over the age of 30, who owned property, were allowed to vote in the UK. But the fight for the vote was about more than the Pankhurst family or Emily Davison's fateful collision with the king's horse. In this dramatised documentary, popular historian Lucy Worsley tells the story of a group of less well known, but equally astonishing, young working-class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that Edwardian society had about them. Lucy and her group of suffragettes from the Women's Social Political Union reveal how women got the vote through their brave, trailblazing and often dangerous activities. Lucy looks at the role of politics, police and parliament in the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, followed by the coalition of groups who successfully achieved the vote for all women over 21 some ten years later. - Director:
- Emma Frank
- Cast:
- Amy Gavin, Lucy Worsley, Joanne Thomson
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Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, and recipient of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary. This is the final of three volumes that bring all of her films.
Geri (1999)
Geri Halliwell, the most colourful and outrageous of the Spice Girls, has dramatically left the band. Two days later, Dineen joins her as she dodges the paparazzi and seeks solace with family and friends in a fascinating rollercoaster ride through fame, celebrity and the personality behind that infamous Union Jack dress.
The Lords' Tale (2002)
Dineen follows one of Parliament's greatest upheavals: the abolition of the hereditary peers. With customary sensitivity, she puts a human face on the constitutional crisis, weaving the strands of the personal and the public to make one of the most astute political documentaries of the New Labour era.
The Lie of the Land (2007)
On the eve of the fox hunting ban, Dineen uncovers the unpleasant truths of life in the British countryside, where farmers struggle to survive under the weight of government legislation and national indifference towards rural communities.- Director:
- Molly Dineen
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- Geri Horner, Molly Dineen, Tony Blair
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The year is 2065. The location is a secret island base. The Tracy family run International Rescue - a top secret organisation whose ongoing mission is to aid humanity. With the support of five incredible Thunderbirds craft, the London agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, her butler and former safe-cracker Parker, and genius Brains, the Tracy family battle the forces of evil. - Director:
- Alan Patillo
- Cast:
- Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, Sylvia Anderson
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Raging Bull (1980)The Life of Jake La Motta
"Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives and amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Violent throughout, this film is a testament to Scorsese's and De Niro's skills, creating a thoroughly absorbing film about such an unlikable character. Renowned for throwing himself into the roles of his character, De Niro went on a diet to gain fifty pounds during production for the role of the faded star. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Robert De Niro, Ted Husing, Cathy Moriarty
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. - Director:
- Ethan Coen
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- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
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State of Play (2003)Den tredje makten
Stephen Collins (David Morrissey) is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey (John Simm) is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before rumours of an affair between Stephen and the assistant hit the headlines. Meanwhile a suspected teenage drug dealer is shot dead. Revelation upon revelation pile up in the aftermath of these two seemingly unconnected events, ultimately bringing to light shady dealings between the government and major corporate powers. Friendships are tested and lives are put on the line as an intricate , web of lies unfolds. - Director:
- David Yates
- Cast:
- John Simm, Kelly MacDonald, Bill Nighy
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Comedy icon Penelope Keith stars as an uncompromising Labour MP who finds her cherished principles severely tested in the unforgiving, often murkily Machiavellian world of Westminster in this cleverly scripted Thames comedy. Soldiering on amid the dreadful facilities and uncivilised hours that might drive a lesser woman out of the job, wife and mother Jean Price is still managing to hold her own amid the swollen ego and rampant chauvinism of the political elite. This third series sees her facing down the threat of de-selection, taking a stand against nuclear weapons, organising an MPs' 'sleep out' in a bid to highlight the plight of the homeless, and tackling the sensitive subject of MPs' rising salaries... - Director:
- John Howard Davies
- Cast:
- Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, Garfield Morgan
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Comedy icon Penelope Keith stars as Jean Price, a newly elected Labour MP who finds her cherished principles severely tested in the unforgiving, often murky world of Westminster. Jean's ambition withstands the dreadful facilities and uncivilised hours that might drive a lesser woman out of the job, with the wife and mother managing to hold her own amid the swollen egos, rampant chauvinism and Machiavellian scheming of the political elite; husband Geoff provides much-needed moral support. Also featuring 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' star George Baker as Tory adversary Sir Godfrey Eagan and Garfield Morgan as Labour whip Norman, this cleverly scripted Thames comedy was directed by BAFTA Award winner John Howard Davies, whose high-profile credits include 'The Good Life', 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Mr. Bean'. - Director:
- John Howard-Davies
- Cast:
- Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, Garfield Morgan
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