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Kanopy
77
8.5
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84
/43178/
82
/20274/
4.2
/1803777/
80
/260/
87
/1652336/
67
/46/
cc age 16+

Gladiator (2000)
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/375882/
73
/9513/
72
/6494/
3.7
/1163423/
84
/106/
79
/14722/
68
/34/
cc age 13+

Notting Hill (1999)
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.
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MGM Plus
69
6.9
/90015/
69
/1951/
69
/1743/
3.4
/53069/
62
/170/
67
/4448/
62
/34/
cc age 16+

The Duchess (2008)
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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69
6.3
/1992/
63
/49/
60
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3.4
/977/
67
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79
/47/

Personal Services (1987)
Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spanking to fabulous reviews.
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The Roku Channel
67
7.2
/6093/
68
/85/
69
/76/
3.4
/2823/
69
/16/
78
/115/
57
/10/

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
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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Criterion Channel
67
6.8
/6979/
68
/173/
62
/104/
3.6
/9144/
65
/17/
77
/270/
63
/22/

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
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Peacock Premium
64
7.3
/605426/
73
/15530/
72
/10717/
3.4
/429003/
53
/227/
74
/35703/
56
/43/
cc age 16+

Troy (2004)
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
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Netflix
64
6.7
/71142/
70
/2237/
65
/1108/
3.2
/23267/
60
/171/
53
/994/
58
/35/
cc age 15+

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Starz
58
6.8
/77609/
69
/1688/
67
/1278/
3.3
/32920/
35
/164/
59
/12098/
45
/35/
cc age 15+

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
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Kanopy
57
6.5
/71486/
67
/2311/
63
/1454/
3.1
/24954/
64
/74/
51
/859/
53
/24/

The Awakening (2011)
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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77
56
7.9
/4518/
71
/39/
72
/45/
3.6
/1011/
93
/37/

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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The Roku Channel
60
55
5.9
/7832/
62
/207/
56
/132/
2.9
/2136/
75
/8/
50
/380/

Alien Autopsy (2006)
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Disney Plus
53
5.8
/122922/
62
/5879/
59
/3529/
2.9
/180144/
40
/35/
40
/10035/
50
/20/
cc age 5+

101 Dalmatians (1996)
An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
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53
6.4
/6616/
64
/195/
61
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3.1
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50
/6/
52
/86/

Fatherland (1994)
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
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MGM Plus
50
6.2
/947/
57
/11/
47
/11/
3.3
/898/
22
/4/

Hennessy (1975)
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Amazon Prime Video
47
6.1
/118321/
64
/3049/
62
/1961/
2.6
/50500/
15
/88/
44
/5758/
35
/13/
cc age 18+

Mirrors (2008)
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
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67
46
6.3
/1910/
67
/146/
63
/27/
3.3
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100
/9/
46
/25/

King Charles III (2017)
Prince Charles' accession to the throne following the Queen's death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues: a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace.
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The Roku Channel
42
39
5.4
/9860/
57
/255/
55
/221/
2.6
/2140/
13
/15/
43
/100/
21
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The Body (2001)
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....
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Amazon Prime Video
53
24
6.0
/1155/
61
/24/
58
/31/
33
/24/

Shadow of the Sword (2005)
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.
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50
24
5.5
/1501/
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/30/
40
/16/
2.8
/806/
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/48/

Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
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44
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4.7
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/36/
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2.8
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Chemical Wedding (2008)
A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.
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59
19
6.2
/922/
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/15/
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/25/
3.2
/395/

Whistle (2002)
Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife is not only fully cognizant of her husband's day job but she is also the cold-blooded contact with his bosses when the conscience crisis sets in!
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Kanopy
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19
7.6
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/8/
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/5/
61
/1125/

King Lear (1982)
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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50
13
5.5
/420/
55
/4/
59
/7/
33
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Pope Joan (1972)
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
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40
9
4.2
/683/
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/15/
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/7/
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Alone (2002)
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
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Amazon Prime Video
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6.3
/65/
45
/2/

The Gentleman Thief (2001)
An adventure of A J Raffles.
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?
10
/1/

The Tom Machine (1980)
100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides to leave. But everyone keeps telling him that is impossible ...
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?
77
/4/
70
/1/

Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story (2017)
In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - codenamed Operation Grapple X. It was the culmination of an extraordinary scientific project, which against almost insuperable odds turned Britain into a nuclear superpower. Featuring access to the top-secret nuclear research facility at Aldermaston, the programme features interviews with veterans and scientists who took part in the atomic bomb programme, some speaking for the first time, and newly released footage of the British atomic bomb tests.
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?
10
/1/

The Ha-Ha (1969)
A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.
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67
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6.8
/208/
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/8/
68
/3/

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies (2007)
The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe.
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?
7.9
/27/
20
/1/

OXI, an Act of Resistance (2014)
The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethical and political writings of Ancient Greece.
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?
6.2
/42/

An Organization of Dreams (2009)
A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?
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?
20
/1/

Animals of the Ocean Desert (2001)
For two-thirds of the year, the Little Rann is a desert. Suddenly, in August, monsoon winds whip up the Arabian Sea and carry it 100 km inland. The desert and these mounds soon become islands and homes to high concentrations of rarely-seen, endangered and spectacular wildlife.
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?
7.9
/13/
10
/1/
40
/2/

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1992)
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The plot to kill him masterminded in England and carried through to finality in Prague in 1942, is told in this gripping dramatised documentary special. Featuring meticulous reconstructions, coupled with authentic historical film, some of it never shown before the film powerfully presents a vivid account of the only successful assassination of a leading Nazi in World War II. It also chillingly recreates the terrible human cost of SS savagery against the Resistance and the total obliteration of the village of Lidice.
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?
7.3
/56/
70
/1/

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain (2014)
Moving Half The Mountain documents the true stories of the survivors from one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War the brutal use of prisoners (POWs) and forced local labour by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma. These men are now in their twilight years but their memories are as clear as though it were yesterday.
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?
6.2
/27/
55
/2/
100
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Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt (2004)
At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible... In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labour could transform rock and stone into some of the most incredible monuments ever created from carving out spectacular tombs in the Valley Of The Kings to the building of the iconic Great Pyramid. In this fascinating documentary special we uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh, engineers and architects and bring to life great buildings and the ancient Egyptians saw them - towering over their great civilisation in the history of Africa, and perhaps the World....
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?
5.3
/27/
20
/1/

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999)
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government claiming to have some love letters from the composer to her great-grandmother, the Countess Delfina Potocka.
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?
7.7
/36/
80
/1/

The Race for Everest (2003)
The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953 British and 1952 Swiss attempt on Everest with rare archival material, this film tells the story of the race to climb Everest in the early 1950s and its climax in 1953.
poster
55
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6.7
/131/
35
/2/
65
/2/

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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51
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7.1
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10
/1/
50
/1/
75
/1/

England, My England (1995)
The story of Henry Purcell.
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7.2
/19/
20
/1/
70
/1/

Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 (2001)
The dramatic stories of Fritz Wiessner’s 1939 K2 expedition and Charlie Houston’s return in 1953. K2 is one of the hardest mountains in the world to climb. This film focuses on the expeditions of Fritz Wiessner and Charlie Houston in 1953. An award winner at the Banff, Telluride, Trento and Prague film festivals.
poster
49
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6.3
/542/
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/4/
50
/8/
38
/8/
57
/9/

Two Deaths (1996)
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
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?
7.1
/65/
43
/3/
50
/3/

Partition (1987)
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
poster
72
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7.9
/474/
72
/17/
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/7/
3.5
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
poster
78
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7.7
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/3/
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3.6
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
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Kanopy
66
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6.7
/141/
45
/12/
82
/6/
3.5
/265/

Hamlet (2015)
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was the Royal Exchange's fastest-selling show in a decade.
poster
60
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7.1
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/5/
45
/4/

Testimony (1987)
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
51
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7.2
/154/
40
/2/
70
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.


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