Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 14.514
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1931-09-12
  • Place of Birth : Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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Ian Holm Movies

  • 1997
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    The Fifth Element

    The Fifth Element

    7.554 1997 HD

    In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

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  • 1985
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    Brazil

    Brazil

    7.67 1985 HD

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...

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  • 2001
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    8.4 2001 HD

    Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the...

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  • 2003
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    8.483 2003 HD

    As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the...

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  • 2004
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    Garden State

    Garden State

    7.1 2004 HD

    Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision...

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  • 2004
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    The Day After Tomorrow

    The Day After Tomorrow

    6.537 2004 HD

    After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice...

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  • 2007
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    Ratatouille

    Ratatouille

    7.8 2007 HD

    Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy...

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  • 2001
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    From Hell

    From Hell

    6.7 2001 HD

    Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes...

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  • 1997
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    The Sweet Hereafter

    The Sweet Hereafter

    6.9 1997 HD

    A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer...

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  • 1994
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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    6.4 1994 HD

    Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead...

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  • 1999
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    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    5.7 1999 HD

    Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and...

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  • 1991
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    Kafka

    Kafka

    6.4 1991 HD

    Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings...

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  • 1990
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    6.6 1990 HD

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

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  • 2005
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    Lord of War

    Lord of War

    7.325 2005 HD

    Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol...

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  • 1999
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    eXistenZ

    eXistenZ

    6.802 1999 HD

    A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been...

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  • 2004
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    The Aviator

    The Aviator

    7.226 2004 HD

    A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer...

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  • 2000
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    Bless the Child

    Bless the Child

    5.341 2000 HD

    When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed...

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  • 1989
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    7.2 1989 HD

    Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

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  • 1991
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    Naked Lunch

    Naked Lunch

    7 1991 HD

    Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After...

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  • 1977
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    The Man in the Iron Mask

    The Man in the Iron Mask

    6.2 1977 HD

    The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public,...

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  • 1976
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    Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian

    6.3 1976 HD

    Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

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  • 1979
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    6.6 1979 HD

    At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends...

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  • 1978
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    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    7.161 1978 HD

    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

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  • 1984
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    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    6.331 1984 HD

    A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their...

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  • 2000
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    The Miracle Maker

    The Miracle Maker

    5.9 2000 HD

    A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to...

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  • 1969
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    Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War

    6.6 1969 HD

    The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

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  • 1994
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    The Madness of King George

    The Madness of King George

    6.8 1994 HD

    Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...

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  • 1986
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    Murder by the Book

    Murder by the Book

    3 1986 HD

    Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which...

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  • 1988
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    Another Woman

    Another Woman

    6.826 1988 HD

    Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some...

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  • 1997
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    A Life Less Ordinary

    A Life Less Ordinary

    6.1 1997 HD

    A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a...

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  • 1977
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    March or Die

    March or Die

    5.8 1977 HD

    Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote...

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  • 1981
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    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    6.8 1981 HD

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

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  • 2006
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    Strangers with Candy

    Strangers with Candy

    5.57 2006 HD

    A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her...

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  • 1985
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    Dance with a Stranger

    Dance with a Stranger

    5.9 1985 HD

    Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for...

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  • 1970
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    Emma's Time

    Emma's Time

    1 1970 HD

    After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.

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  • 1974
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    Juggernaut

    Juggernaut

    6.1 1974 HD

    A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

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  • 1985
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    Dreamchild

    Dreamchild

    6.7 1985 HD

    Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had...

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  • 1981
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    Time Bandits

    Time Bandits

    6.583 1981 HD

    Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've...

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  • 1999
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    Wisconsin Death Trip

    Wisconsin Death Trip

    5.7 1999 HD

    Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade...

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  • 1998
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    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    5 1998 HD

    A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland'...

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  • 2000
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    Esther Kahn

    Esther Kahn

    6 2000 HD

    A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

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  • 1971
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    A Severed Head

    A Severed Head

    5.3 1971 HD

    Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While...

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  • 1997
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    Night Falls on Manhattan

    Night Falls on Manhattan

    6.3 1997 HD

    A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

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  • 1971
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    Mary, Queen of Scots

    Mary, Queen of Scots

    6.7 1971 HD

    Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the...

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  • 1992
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    Blue Ice

    Blue Ice

    5.096 1992 HD

    An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.

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  • 2006
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    Chromophobia

    Chromophobia

    5.3 2006 HD

    Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

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  • 1972
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    Young Winston

    Young Winston

    6.2 1972 HD

    This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war...

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  • 2007
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    The Treatment

    The Treatment

    6 2007 HD

    Jake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful widow...

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  • 2012
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    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    7.357 2012 HD

    Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their...

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  • 1976
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    Shout at the Devil

    Shout at the Devil

    6 1976 HD

    During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German...

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  • 2006
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    O Jerusalem

    O Jerusalem

    6.019 2006 HD

    A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

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  • 1996
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    Big Night

    Big Night

    6.909 1996 HD

    Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

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  • 1994
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    Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

    Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

    1 1994 HD

    Documentary following the journey of the Dalai Lama's personal envoy to the remote feudal kingdom of Mustang.

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  • 1996
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    Loch Ness

    Loch Ness

    5.6 1996 HD

    Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper,...

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  • 1993
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    The Hour of the Pig

    The Hour of the Pig

    6.2 1993 HD

    In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and...

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  • 2001
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    The Emperor's New Clothes

    The Emperor's New Clothes

    6.7 2001 HD

    Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal...

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  • 1980
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    S.O.S. Titanic

    S.O.S. Titanic

    5.9 1980 HD

    The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

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  • 1968
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    The Fixer

    The Fixer

    5.8 1968 HD

    Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a...

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  • 1984
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    Laughterhouse

    Laughterhouse

    5 1984 HD

    A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

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  • 1958
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    Girls at Sea

    Girls at Sea

    6 1958 HD

    When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill...

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  • 1996
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    A Little Fish in Deep Water

    A Little Fish in Deep Water

    1 1996 HD

    Lake Tanganyika is an 'Ocean' in Africa. Millions of years ago it was colonized by a little fish called 'Cichlid'. Otters, crocodiles, cobras and...

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  • 1998
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    Tale of the Tides

    Tale of the Tides

    1 1998 HD

    In Africa there is a fable that explains the creation of the tides. When a hyaena challenged a mudskipper to a drinking contest to decide who should...

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  • 1991
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    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

    1 1991 HD

    Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the...

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  • 1974
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    The Wood Demon

    The Wood Demon

    1 1974 HD

    A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden...

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  • 1962
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    8 1962 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

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  • 1973
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    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

    5.8 1973 HD

    In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and...

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  • 2014
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    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    7.3 2014 HD

    Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it:...

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  • 2000
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    Joe Gould's Secret

    Joe Gould's Secret

    6.1 2000 HD

    Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the...

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  • 2005
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    The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    7.8 2005 HD

    A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

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  • 2003
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    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise

    6.3 2003 HD

    The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt...

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  • 1985
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    Wetherby

    Wetherby

    6 1985 HD

    The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its...

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  • 1978
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    The Thief of Baghdad

    The Thief of Baghdad

    5.2 1978 HD

    A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.

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  • 1995
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    Landscape

    Landscape

    10 1995 HD

    A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly...

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  • 1968
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    5.5 1968 HD

    Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare...

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  • 1983
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    The Return of the Soldier

    The Return of the Soldier

    6.2 1983 HD

    The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife,...

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  • 2011
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    Discovering Hamlet

    Discovering Hamlet

    7 2011 HD

    Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

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  • 1992
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    The Last Romantics

    The Last Romantics

    1 1992 HD

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

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  • 1957
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    Rope

    Rope

    1 1957 HD

    British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.

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  • 1998
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    8 1998 HD

    Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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  • 1965
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    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.5 1965 HD

    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

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  • 2000
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    Beautiful Joe

    Beautiful Joe

    5.4 2000 HD

    A bad girl becomes a con artist, gets into trouble with the mob and taps a nice-guy florist for help.

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  • 1993
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    The Borrowers

    The Borrowers

    1 1993 HD

    The Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in...

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  • 1990
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    A Season of Giants

    A Season of Giants

    6.5 1990 HD

    At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their...

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  • 1994
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    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    1 1994 HD

    Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The...

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  • 1999
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    Shergar

    Shergar

    6.3 1999 HD

    Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, is kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2...

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  • 1992
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    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

    7.8 1992 HD

    Join the BBC cameras as they go behind the glitter of Buckingham Palace and the pomp of Windsor Castle for a close-up look at the minutia of the...

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  • 1995
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    Little Red Riding Hood

    Little Red Riding Hood

    1 1995 HD

    Roald Dahl's version of Little Red Riding Hood

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  • 2000
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    The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

    The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

    6.8 2000 HD

    After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an...

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  • 1982
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    Inside the Third Reich

    Inside the Third Reich

    7.3 1982 HD

    A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based...

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  • 1989
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    The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor of Gloucester

    1 1989 HD

    An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

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  • 1969
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    Moonlight on the Highway

    Moonlight on the Highway

    2 1969 HD

    Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

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  • 1963
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    The Paradise Suite

    The Paradise Suite

    1 1963 HD

    A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people.

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  • 1969
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    Edward the Confessor

    Edward the Confessor

    1 1969 HD

    Edward Gobey has a strange compulsion.

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  • 1969
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    Omri's Burning

    Omri's Burning

    1 1969 HD

    A study of a man’s slide into the abyss of alcoholism and of the women who attempt to save him

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  • 1971
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    Funny

    Funny

    1 1971 HD

    In London, Tom and Phyl are self-assured and in control of the situation whenever they meet their friends Huw and Tegwen. But when they're not on...

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  • 1979
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    Alien

    Alien

    8.158 1979 HD

    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the...

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  • 1970
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    The End of the Line

    The End of the Line

    1 1970 HD

    On the Edinburgh to London night train, two strangers meet in an otherwise empty carriage. They start to reveal some shocking facts about themselves...

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  • 2004
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    D-Day 6.6.1944

    D-Day 6.6.1944

    7.1 2004 HD

    On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred. D-Day tells the epic story of the preparation and...

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  • 1970
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    A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

    A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

    6 1970 HD

    A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.

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  • 1968
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    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    9 1968 HD

    A version of the famous story in which Ian Holm plays both Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature he puts together from parts of dead bodies and brings to...

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  • 1991
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    Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

    Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

    1 1991 HD

    Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

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  • 1985
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    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

    7 1985 HD

    Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme,...

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  • 2007
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    The Real Middle Earth

    The Real Middle Earth

    1 2007 HD

    This fascinating documentary takes us in Tolkien's footsteps and investigates the landscapes and buildings, the places and names that helped shape...

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  • 1982
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    Soft Targets

    Soft Targets

    1 1982 HD

    Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

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  • 1980
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    The Misanthrope

    The Misanthrope

    1 1980 HD

    One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set...

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  • 1999
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    The Match

    The Match

    6.2 1999 HD

    Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure...

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  • 1989
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    The Endless Game

    The Endless Game

    6 1989 HD

    A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events...

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  • 1985
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    The Browning Version

    The Browning Version

    6.2 1985 HD

    Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.

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  • 1978
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    The Lost Boys

    The Lost Boys

    8 1978 HD

    The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George,...

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  • 1968
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    The Bofors Gun

    The Bofors Gun

    5.7 1968 HD

    A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.

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  • 1997
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    Incognito

    Incognito

    5.8 1997 HD

    Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out...

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  • 2003
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    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    8.167 2003 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's...

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  • 2005
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    The Queen of Trees

    The Queen of Trees

    7.3 2005 HD

    In Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their...

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  • 1999
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    Simon Magus

    Simon Magus

    7.3 1999 HD

    Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...

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  • 1971
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    Nicholas and Alexandra

    Nicholas and Alexandra

    6.9 1971 HD

    Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

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  • 1983
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    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

    7.3 1983 HD

    A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

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  • 1984
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    The Cost of Treachery

    The Cost of Treachery

    1 1984 HD

    In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan,...

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  • 1989
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    The Kingdom of Fun

    The Kingdom of Fun

    1 1989 HD

    The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

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  • 1967
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    Opus

    Opus

    5 1967 HD

    Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in every thing from Mary Quant to the Marat/Sade...

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  • 2004
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    The Last Dragon

    The Last Dragon

    7.8 2004 HD

    "The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to understand the unique incredible beasts that have...

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  • 1981
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    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

    1 1981 HD

    British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

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  • 1978
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    Flayed

    Flayed

    1 1978 HD

    'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just...

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  • 1986
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    Cry From Home

    Cry From Home

    1 1986 HD

    'I'm British', says the young lady with strawberry blonde hair and a Midlands accent, 'but I don't have a drop of British blood in me.' Carmen...

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  • 1986
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    The Fishing Party

    The Fishing Party

    1 1986 HD

    Four prosperous City men take a fishing holiday in Scotland. Their aim is a world record for skate. What emerges is the outspoken, even outrageous,...

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  • 1977
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    Jesus Of Nazareth

    Jesus Of Nazareth

    1 1977 HD

    Robert Powell stars in the epic 1977 drama chronicling the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. With Laurence Olivier, James Earl...

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  • 1993
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    The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor of Gloucester

    1 1993 HD

    A tailor is making a coat for the Mayor of Gloucester. He is nearly finished except for some cherry coloured silk. Some mice finish the coat in the...

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  • 1993
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    The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

    The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

    7 1993 HD

    An investigative biography originally broadcast in 1993 for BBC Timewatch about the man at the center of the political crime of the 20th century. At...

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1993
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    The Return of the Borrowers

    The Return of the Borrowers

    6.5 1993 HD

    The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George but the village's owner also finds out...

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  • 1978
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    Holocaust

    Holocaust

    7.4 1978 HD

    Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the...

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  • 1966
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    Mystery and Imagination

    Mystery and Imagination

    5.5 1966 HD

    Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to...

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  • 1977
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    Jesus of Nazareth

    Jesus of Nazareth

    7.7 1977 HD

    Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1983
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    Natural World

    Natural World

    7 1983 HD

    Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....

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  • 1985
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    Television

    Television

    1 1985 HD

    Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and...

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  • 1988
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    Game, Set, and Match

    Game, Set, and Match

    7.5 1988 HD

    Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to...

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  • 1974
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    Napoleon and Love

    Napoleon and Love

    1 1974 HD

    Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series...

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  • 2009
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    1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

    1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

    6.9 2009 HD

    In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is remagined, not from the saddles of kings and...

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  • 1992
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    The Borrowers

    The Borrowers

    6.364 1992 HD

    The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and...

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  • 1974
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    The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

    The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

    1 1974 HD

    Benjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin. It was broadcast by CBS. It won the Emmy...

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    1 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    1 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    1 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 1974
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    NOVA

    NOVA

    6.8 1974 HD

    PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1990
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    Chillers

    Chillers

    6.2 1990 HD

    Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature.

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  • 1988
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    Korea: The Unknown War

    Korea: The Unknown War

    1 1988 HD

    A documentary about the Korean War by Thames Television that aired in the Summer of 1988 and in the US in November 1990 through WGBH Boston.

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  • 1982
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    The Bell

    The Bell

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Lost Boys

    The Lost Boys

    1 1978 HD

    The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George,...

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  • 1990
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    Stalin

    Stalin

    1 1990 HD

    Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving...

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  • 1999
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    Shanghai Vice

    Shanghai Vice

    1 1999 HD

    In a city where heroin dealing can bring the death sentence, drug rings mean business…and so do the police. The activities of the city’s...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 2003
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    Monsters We Met

    Monsters We Met

    6 2003 HD

    Three part series detailing the dangerous prehistoric creatures humans met as they explored the world for the first time.

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  • 1964
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    Horizon

    Horizon

    7.4 1964 HD

    Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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  • 1965
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    National Geographic Specials

    National Geographic Specials

    5.2 1965 HD

    National Geographic Specials

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  • 1974
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    NOVA

    NOVA

    6.8 1974 HD

    PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and...

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  • 2003
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    Days That Shook the World

    Days That Shook the World

    6.3 2003 HD

    Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 2006
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    Legends

    Legends

    5 2006 HD

    The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.

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  • 1972
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    The Frighteners

    The Frighteners

    8.5 1972 HD

    A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

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  • 1992
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    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    6.143 1992 HD

    Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.

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  • 2001
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    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent

    1 2001 HD

    Documentary series recounting the exploits of the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    1 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 1985
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    Screen Two

    Screen Two

    6.8 1985 HD

    Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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