Jill Dixon

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Atlantique, latitude 41°
7.6
Le 10 avril 1912, le nouveau transatlantique britannique Titanic, luxueux paquebot de 269 mètres de long, quitte Southampton pour une traversée inaugurale à destination de New York, emportant à son bord quelque deux mille deux cent huit passagers. Le 14 avril, vers 23 h 40, le vapeur file dans l'Atlantique alors que la fête bat son plein à tous les niveaux des classes sociales, quand la vigie signale un iceberg droit devant. Malgré le changement de cap immédiat, l'énorme masse de glace éventre la coque sur une longueur de 100 mètres. Après avoir rapidement évalué les dégâts, les ingénieurs rendent leur verdict sans appel : le Titanic est condamné à couler dans les délais les plus courts... L'équipage fait alors mettre à l'eau les canots de sauvetage, tout en étant conscient que tout le monde ne pourra y prendre place. Au loin, l'équipage du Californian assiste au naufrage sans saisir la gravité de la situation.
Drama
Just My Luck
6

Just My Luck

Nov 14, 1957
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?
Comedy
Witchcraft
6.7

Witchcraft

Mar 01, 1964
Des travaux publics profanent la tombe d'une sorcière qui se réveille 300 ans après sa mort. Elle va chercher à se venger des descendants de ceux qui l'ont condamnée au bûcher...
Horror
The Capone Investment
6.2

The Capone Investment

Jun 07, 1974
Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.
Mystery
Up in the World
6.3

Up in the World

Dec 06, 1956
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Comedy
The Secret Place
6.2

The Secret Place

Feb 06, 1957
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Crime
High Tide at Noon
6

High Tide at Noon

Apr 30, 1957
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer. As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
Drama
Checkpoint
5.3

Checkpoint

Dec 25, 1956
Afin que ses employeurs puissent remporter la compétition, O'Donovan est envoyé pour voler les plans des voitures de course d'une écurie rivale. Pendant l'opération, l'alarme se déclenche et une fusillade tue un certain nombre de personnes. Warren Ingram, alarmé par le scandale entourant les meurtres, ordonne que son agent soit tué subrepticement pour cacher son implication dans le complot. Le film utilise des images originales de la Mille Miglia, une course d'endurance italienne sur route ouverte.
Crime
Les Professionnels
7.4

Les Professionnels

Feb 06, 1983
Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.
Action & Adventure
The Scales of Justice
6.7

The Scales of Justice

Mar 01, 1967
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Crime
Sunday-Night Play
1

Sunday-Night Play

Sep 15, 1963
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Grange Hill
6.5

Grange Hill

Sep 15, 2008
Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Drama
The Man In Room 17
5.5

The Man In Room 17

Jul 01, 1966
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
Crime
Lady Killers
5

Lady Killers

Aug 21, 1981
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
Persuasion
1

Persuasion

Jan 20, 1961
Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Elliot, and Paul Daneman as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The mini-series has four episodes, each about an hour in length. According to shmoop.com, this mini-series was possibly destroyed in the BBC clean-out of the 1970s.
Drama