Kenneth Branagh
Also Known As: ケネス・ブラナー, 케네스 브래너, 肯尼思·布拉纳, קנת' בראנה, کنت برانا
Biography: Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He has directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He directed Swan Song (1992), which earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He also directed Peter's Friends (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Thor (2011), and Cinderella (2015). For his semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and won Best Original Screenplay. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Death on the Nile (2022), and A Haunting in Venice (2023). He has also acted in Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), and Valkyrie (2008). His portrayal of Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's films Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). Branagh has starred in the BBC1 series Fortunes of War (1987), the Channel 4 series Shackleton (2002), and the BBC One series Wallander (2008–2016). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001). He also received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the television film Warm Springs (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Birthday: December 10, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Overview: Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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The Road to El Dorado
Overview: Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Overview: Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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Valkyrie
Overview: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Overview: Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thomas Edison's 1910 filmization to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 treatment, plus interviews with Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Roger Corman and others. Hosted by Roger Moore; narrated by Eli Wallach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Sleuth
Overview: On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Peter's Friends
Overview: After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Dead Again
Overview: In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Wild Wild West
Overview: Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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Celebrity
Overview: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Chariots of Fire
Overview: 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 devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Overview: In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-04
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Conspiracy
Overview: At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-19
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The Gingerbread Man
Overview: A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Walking with Monsters
Overview: Many people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to the acclaimed "Walking with Dinosaurs" puts viewers in the midst of a host of strange creatures that inhabited the earth millions of years before the dinosaurs ever existed.Starting from the Cambrian Period (530 MYA) and ending at the Early Triassic Period (248 MYA), Walking With Monsters shows the life and death struggles of the fantastic creatures that existed before the dinosaurs.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-05
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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Overview: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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A Month in the Country
Overview: A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-27
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Othello
Overview: The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Five Children and It
Overview: A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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Warm Springs
Overview: Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-30
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IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Overview: Retrace the groundbreaking footsteps of Charles Darwin with a young scientist as she explores the biological diversity and unique geologic history of the Galapagos archipelago. Using the magic of IMAX® and IMAX® 3D technology, plunge 3,000 feet into underground lava tubes, soar over the peaks of 5,000 foot volcanoes and encounter an abundance of marine life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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The Periwig-Maker
Overview: Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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The Boat That Rocked
Overview: An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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My Week with Marilyn
Overview: London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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The Theory of Flight
Overview: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Mayday
Overview: Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while evading capture or rescue.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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Strange Interlude
Overview: Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique, in which the characters speak their inner thoughts to the audience.united
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-13
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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Overview: At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics, Stan Lee has co-created over 500 legendary pop culture characters including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk. Stan continues to create new material and entertain fans of all ages with fantastic stories and characters in all areas of entertainment. With Great Power: the Stan Lee Story, explores the vivid life and imagination of Stan Lee, from the early days of his Depression-era upbringing through the Marvel Age of Comics and beyond! The film uncovers original transcripts, illustrations, photographs and stories of Lee's fascinating journey from his early years at Timely Comics and World War Two, the comic book industry's censorship battle of the 1950's led by Dr. Fredric Wertham, the dawn of Marvel Comics and the legendary characters Stan co-created, to his current company POW! Entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-24
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A Haunting in Venice
Overview: Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-13
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High Season
Overview: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Overview: The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event. The Opening Ceremony reflected the key themes and priorities of the London 2012 Games, based on sport, inspiration, youth and urban transformation. It was a Ceremony 'for everyone' and celebrated contributions the UK has made to the world through innovation and revolution, as well as the creativity and exuberance of British people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-27
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Ghosts
Overview: Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-14
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Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Stars In Shorts
Overview: Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Overview: Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-15
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Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Overview: This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of 100's whittled down to the eventual three girls and follows them through workshops and into the difficult shoot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-15
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Overview: Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-26
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Overview: A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Discovering Hamlet
Overview: 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 tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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Shadow of a Gunman
Overview: The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these pre-historic behemoths but their behaviour as well for the BBC natural history documentary miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-12
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Look Back in Anger
Overview: Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles). Cliff , an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-28
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Discovering Hamlet
Overview: IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein follow the company through four weeks of rehearsals, from the first read-throughs to opening night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-07
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Looking for Richard
Overview: Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Overview: This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-02
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Easter 2016
Overview: Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Overview: Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Alien Love Triangle
Overview: Physics lecturer Steven Chesterman finally realizes his long cherished dream of perfecting a teleportation device and rushes home to tell his wife, Alice. But she has news of her own - she's a male alien disguised as a human female. Then Elizabeth arrives, another alien who is to escort Alice back to the planet Nulark.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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Oppenheimer
Overview: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-19
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The Proposition
Overview: Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-26
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Schneider's 2nd Stage
Overview: Which way lies madness? A man named Joe drives his Land Rover into a remote field. The purpose of his trip is obscure. Is he scouting a location? Has he been sent by someone to check out the area? His cell phone rings and a stranger's voice tells him to look in the back of his car. He does, and discovers the dead body of a young girl who's gone missing. The voice on the phone tells him he's been set up, that no one will believe him, and that he'd better follow instructions and bury the body. As he complies, his headaches worsen. Is there any way out for Joe?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Overview: Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftieth birthday.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-11
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Overview: A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-18
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Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
Overview: In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its complexity at the heart of the American paradoxes: from Black activist, rebel soldier to gangster torn between violence and charity. Voted best actor of the 21st century by the New York Times a few months ago, Denzel Washington, 65, has risen to the top of American cinema. As an Actor, director and producer, he has shaken up a "color line" as immutable as it is subtle. Often identified with his characters, he reveals himself to be disconcerting and paradoxical. As if he were holding up a mirror to America in which all of its contradictions and failings were reflected. A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary career of the world-renowned African-American actor.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-15
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Overview: Settle in with the likes of Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson, and as they divulge the secrets behind the creation of Thor: Love and Thunder. Through in-depth interviews with cast and crew, along with raw, unseen footage from the set and beyond, this documentary special pulls back the curtain on the God of Thunder’s fourth feature film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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As You Like It
Overview: Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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The Dance of Shiva
Overview: In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Overview: A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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The King of Kings
Overview: An imaginative boy's father retells the story of Jesus Christ’s life, from His birth in Bethlehem to His miracles, sacrifices, and resurrection. As the story unfolds, the boy embarks on a vivid journey through faith and redemption, discovering the power of love and forgiveness.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-10
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Dunkirk
Overview: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Overview: Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-05
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Murder on the Orient Express
Overview: Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Coming Through
Overview: While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Anne Frank Remembered
Overview: Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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The Tramp and the Dictator
Overview: A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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A Coming to Terms for Billy
Overview: Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-21
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A Matter of Choice for Billy
Overview: Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-10
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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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The Book That Wrote Itself
Overview: "Vincent believes he has written the great Irish novel. When publishers turn it down he decides to prove them wrong by turning it into a movie. The film culminates at the Venice film festival, where Vincent pitches George Clooney, Branagh, DeNiro & others what he now believes to be the great Irish film. The Book That Wrote Itself is an eccentric black comedy on the pretensions of art & filmmaking."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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Prodigal
Overview: A father seeks to rescue his daughter from two organizations intent on acquiring her "special" abilities.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Overview: Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-27
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To the Lighthouse
Overview: A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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The Lady's Not For Burning
Overview: A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Swing Kids
Overview: The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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Mindhorn
Overview: A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Death on the Nile
Overview: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-09
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The Beasts Within
Overview: A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to the extinction of large mammals during the Ice Age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-28
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Triumph of the Beasts
Overview: A deeper look at the science behind Walking with Beasts (2001)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-21
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Avengers: Infinity War
Overview: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-25
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All Is True
Overview: London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Overview: A look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Overview: A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-20
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
Overview: Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Lorna
Overview: In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Overview: Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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Tenet
Overview: Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-22
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Lost Lives
Overview: This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Overview: A strong and fast-paced overview piece that looks at the picture's set design, the inspirations from various versions of the comic, costume construction, and filming locations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-13
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It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Overview: This is a promotional behind the scenes featurette that originally appeared on HBO. A lot of the usual interviews and behind-the-scenes clips, but enjoyably, there are a few shots that look at how the FX were filmed.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-29
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Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Overview: A documentary taking a look at the giant spider and other "bad guy" weapons in the film
Genres: Documentary Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-30
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Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Overview: Interviews with the actresses who are the character's assistants in the movie
Genres: Documentary Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-30
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Fireheart
Overview: The film explores the world of firefighters in 1920s New York City and tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who will have to become a hero in order to save her city.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-16
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Thames Wallah
Overview: Documentary on David Triggs, who works for Thames Water, and is also a frequent visitor to India, as a consultant on the Indian Government's £200 million scheme to clean up the holy River Ganges.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-04
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Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
Overview: A look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-15
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