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Henry V
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Henry V

Oct 05, 1989
1414. Le Roi Henry V d'Angleterre décide de faire valoir ses droits à la couronne de France. Il décide alors de mener une bataille contre la France. En cours de route, le jeune roi doit se battre contre la baisse de morale de ses troupes et vaincre ses propres doutes. Une fois sur le sol français, les troupes anglaises progressent sans rencontrer de grande résistance et assiègent bientôt Harfleur ...
War
Petites anecdotes entre stars
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Les Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright et Maggie Smith ont laissé entrer les caméras dans leur amitié qui remonte à plus d'un demi-siècle. Les quatre grandes artistes discutent de leur carrière et se souviennent de leurs humbles débuts dans le théâtre.
Documentary
L'Éducation de Rita
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L'Éducation de Rita

Jun 16, 1983
Pour se cultiver, Rita, jeune coiffeuse, suit des cours de littérature à l'université. Cette décision et l'évolution qui se dessine en elle bouleversent sa vie et celle de son entourage…
Drama
Brambly Hedge: The High Hills
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Wilfred's Rafting Expedition: Wilfred joins Mr Apple and the Weavers to the High Hills. Mr Apple and Wilfred do some exploring, getting lost and stuck up ridges. Primrose and the Weavers search for them.
Happy Christmas, I Love You
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It is Christmas Eve. Bruce and Renee speak to us from the appropriate corners of their home and we discover that, after 23 years of marriage, they know absolutely nothing about each other.
Comedy
Dead Cert
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Dead Cert

May 01, 1974
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the exact same fate as his friend.
Thriller
Tell Me Lies
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Tell Me Lies

Feb 02, 1968
Trois jeunes Anglais, horrifiés par la photo d’un enfant vietnamien blessé, essaient de comprendre la spirale de la violence dans cette guerre et de surmonter leur sentiment d’impuissance. Avec des acteurs de la Royal Shakespeare Company, à travers chansons, témoignages et manifestations publiques, Peter Brook explore le rapport entre la guerre du Vietnam et la jeunesse protestataire de Londres nourrie de contre-culture pop. Entre fiction et documentaire, un regard original et ironique sur l'époque, toujours d'actualité sur les questions d'engagement et sur notre rapport moral aux images de la guerre.
Drama
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
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Four stories featuring the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 'The Secret Staircase' Primrose and Wilfred set off looking for costumes for the Midwinter celebrations. Wilfred is determined to follow in the pawprints of his exploring hero in 'The High Hills'. In 'Sea Story' the mice run out of salt. And, living in the mill with three little babies is not easy for Poppy in 'Poppy's Babies'.
Family
Enigma
5.6

Enigma

Oct 15, 1982
Alex Holbeck est un agent de la CIA pendant la période de la guerre froide. Sa nouvelle mission est de sauver cinq politiciens considérés comme indésirables par les communistes en Allemagne de L'Est. Il aura à affronter un puissant ennemi, Dimitri Vasilkov, membre du KGB...
Drama
Blunt
4.8

Blunt

Jan 11, 1987
Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.
TV Movie
Angel Voices
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Angel Voices

Jan 15, 1989
It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time.
TV Movie
Un thé avec Mussolini
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À Florence en 1934, Lucas est un jeune homme livré à lui-même depuis la mort de ses parents. Il est repris en main par sa gouvernante anglaise et sa bande d'amies, vieilles femmes piquantes et excentriques, ferventes admiratrices d'un certain Benito Mussolini, malgré la difficulté d'être étranger dans l'Italie des années 30…
Comedy
Marat-Sade
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Marat-Sade

Feb 22, 1967
À l'asile de Charenton, le marquis de Sade met en scène une pièce sur la mort de Jean Paul Marat, en utilisant les patients comme acteurs.
Music
The Comedy of Errors
8.8

The Comedy of Errors

Oct 17, 1978
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
Elizabeth R
7.4

Elizabeth R

Mar 24, 1971
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Drama
Charlie Chalk
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Charlie Chalk

Apr 19, 1989
Charlie Chalk is a stop motion animation series produced in 1987 in the United Kingdom by Woodland Animations, from the creators of Postman Pat and the two other children's television programmes that are Gran and Bertha.
Animation
The Hanged Man
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The Hanged Man

Apr 05, 1975
After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.
Drama
A Fine Romance
5.3

A Fine Romance

Feb 17, 1984
A Fine Romance is a British situation comedy starring husband-and-wife team Judi Dench and Michael Williams. Dench's sister was played by Susan Penhaligon. It was produced by London Weekend Television and written by Bob Larbey. It was first broadcast on 8 November 1981. It lasted for 26 episodes over four series; the final episode being broadcast on 17 February 1984. The series takes its name from a song in the 1936 film Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which Dench recorded as the theme music. The series was nominated for nine BAFTA British Academy Television Awards and a winner of two, both for Dench's performance in 1982 and 1985.
Comedy
Love in a Cold Climate
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The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.
Drama
Playing Shakespeare
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Playing Shakespeare

Sep 23, 1984
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
Documentary
A Dance to the Music of Time
5.3
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Comedy