Also Known As: Tim Piggot-Smith, Tim Pigot-Smith, Tim Piggott Smith, 蒂姆·皮戈特-史密斯, Тим Пиготт-Смит, ტიმ პიგოდ-სმიტი, ტ. პიგოდსმიტი
Biography: British classical stage and TV actor Tim Pigott-Smith is a familiar face both in America and in his native England. A drama major, he graduated from the University of Bristol (where he later frequently lectured) in 1967 and made his professional debut two years later with the Bristol Old Vic. Predominantly a stage player in both regional and repertory, he made his Broadway debut in "Sherlock Holmes" as Dr. Watson in 1974.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
Birthday: May 13, 1946
Deathday: April 07, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Overview: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Overview: To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Overview: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Overview: Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-29
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Overview: During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Overview: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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Overview: A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown Jewels—and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night and on English's watch—the newly-designated agent must jump into action to find the thief and recover the missing gems.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Overview: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Overview: British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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Overview: In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-25
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Overview: Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Overview: The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-04
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Overview: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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Overview: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-09
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Overview: The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An exploration of the problems of man's inner freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Overview: The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-19
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Overview: Decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia, and the U.S. tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict. Charts the evolution of tensions, violence, and peace efforts from 1948 to 1998.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-15
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Overview: A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-05
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Overview: The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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Overview: William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Overview: This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore in the World War 2. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-20
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Overview: A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-08
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Overview: In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-04
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Overview: The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-07
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Overview: This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests will set off an atomic chain reaction that will obliterate the world. Carmody travels to Portugal where he tries talks to one of the women who in 1911 saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that spoke to her and her two companions about the future. Carmody is certain that the Virgin Mary predicted the very chain reaction he and his co-worker Dr. Kenneth Parrish (Peter Firth) envision. Failing in his attempt to talk to the woman, Carmody then travels to Paris and elsewhere, warning Soviet and American officials that the tests they are planning should be cancelled before they become their last.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Overview: Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Overview: Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Overview: Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime Drama History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Overview: In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Overview: Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently returned from India with his family.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-07
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Overview: Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Overview: An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-25
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Overview: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Genres: War History Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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Overview: The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-26
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Overview: France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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Overview: The Private Life of Samuel Pepys is a 2003 British comedy television film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon and Nathaniel Parker. It portrayed the historical diarist Samuel Pepys. It was aired on BBC2 on 16 December 2003, drawing an audience of 2.9 million viewers.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-16
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Overview: An alien intelligence hitches a ride onboard the TARDIS to 15th century Italy, where a deranged astrologer attempts to harness its power.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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Overview: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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Overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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Overview: Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award® nominee César Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Overview: London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.
Genres: Action Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-09
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Overview: Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Overview: Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!), encounters trouble when his clan is threatened by a dangerously obsessed hunter. Fate brings these two boys together, as Tony & Rudolph set off an action-packed battle to stop the villain, save Rudolph's family and learn the power of friendship.
Genres: Comedy Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-04
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Overview: Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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Overview: A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-26
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Overview: Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Genres: History TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Overview: 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, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-11
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Overview: Profile of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of six men in Florida over the course of a year. The programme explores how police were able to gather only circumstantial evidence against Wuornos, and launched an undercover operation to lure her and a possible accomplice out into the open.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-07
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Overview: Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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Overview: The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger (1950-1994), who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault. In 1974, Unterweger murdered 18-year-old German citizen Margaret Schäfer by strangling her with her own bra, and in 1976 was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. And that was only the beginning... Epsidode 1:4 of "Serial Killers".
Genres: Crime Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Overview: When Mr. Whicher, a retired policeman, helps a country lady to find her niece, he is drawn into a disturbing case of murder which brings him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throws him into conflict with his former police colleagues.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-12
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Overview: How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-04
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Overview: In 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. With speculative dramatizations of various inhabitants' final hours along with detailed documentation of the known facts concerning the eruption, the horrific day is vividly brought to life.
Genres: Action Drama History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-20
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Overview: Talking Heads short discussing the creature design of splices from Jupiter Ascending.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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Overview: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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Overview: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Overview: A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-03
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Overview: One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-13
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Overview: On August 22, 1962, Michael Gregsten was murdered, and his lover Valerie Storie raped and shot on the A6 at Deadman's Hill in Bedfordshire. James Hanratty, who denied the murder and claimed he had been misidentified, was hanged for the crime at Bedford Prison. 40 years later, the latest DNA verdict confirmed he was guilty as charged. Valerie Storie blasted campaigners who doubted her word. In her first interview for 36 yrs, she tells of the horrific events that left her paralyzed, her battle to work again and the fighting spirit that pushes her to live a full and active life.
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Overview: Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-26
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Overview: After giving birth to her second boy, Jodie recognises a growing dissatisfaction in all areas of her life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-27
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Overview: A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, filled with interviews with the director, the screenwriter, leading make up, costume and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-04
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Overview: Powerful myths and misconceptions have shaped our understanding of the moment which changed the course of WW2 - the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940. But what really happened at Dunkirk and in the crisis before the days of the evacuation? This documentary takes a European look at the crisis and asks new questions from a French and German perspective as well as from a British point of view. Featuring interviews with veterans and historians from all three key protagonists, providing revealing insights into the events of May and June 1940.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Overview: A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Overview: Tim Piggot-Smith investigates the famous sleuth of 221b Baker Street.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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