Floella Benjamin
Also Known As: Baroness Floella Benjamin
Biography: Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, OBE, DL is a Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
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Run Fatboy Run
Overview: Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Black Joy
Overview: An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-06
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I Don't Want to Be Born
Overview: A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Overview: Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes ever made and revealing chats with some of TV’s most beloved stars. But Konnie also tells a perhaps more surprising story: of how kids’ TV has frequently been at the forefront of social change, in terms of the stories it tells and the people who get to tell them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-26
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Nursery Rhymes
Overview: 70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The beautiful visual world draws on the work of such classic children's illustrators as Arthur Rackham (Peter Pan) & John Tenniel (Alice in Wonderland). A delightful musical score by Tony & Grammy winning composer John Du Prez, features everything form Northumbrian pipes to Baroque orchestra, folk guitar, early instruments, military band, fairground organ & even a singing sheep (courtesy of Percy Edwards).
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-31
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A Hole in Babylon
Overview: Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a situation out of their control.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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Coming To England
Overview: "A story of a Windrush generation girl who came to Britain in 1960 from the Caribbean. Adapted from the book Coming to England [by Floella Benjamin], which was written for children everywhere." - BBC.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-28
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The Floater
Overview: A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-29
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Rendition
Overview: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Waterloo Sunset
Overview: Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-23
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