Paul McGann
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Biography: Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an English actor who made his name on The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie as well as other media that features his incarnation of the character.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 14, 1959
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Overview: Theis documentary contains the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway), Yee Jee Tso (Chang Lee), Eric Roberts (The Master), Philip Segal (Producer) and Geoffrey Sax (Director). Presented by Sophie Aldred, Robert Dick and the voice of the Daleks Nicholas Briggs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Nero's Sunken City
Overview: Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among Rome’s elite. What made Baiae such a special place? What really went on there? And why did it disappear?
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-16
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The One That Got Away
Overview: The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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Gypo
Overview: Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a young Czech girl, Tash, comes to visit. The film is made in the Dogme95 tradition, so no costumes, no lighting, no props or sets, which gives the film a gritty texture appropriate to the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-24
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Alien³
Overview: After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Overview: With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan's dramatic decline. A pioneering group of scientists and conservationists sets out to discover why we have lost nearly half the Bewick population in the last twenty years. Every year, these majestic birds make one of the world's toughest migrations, across perilous land, sea and skies. Somewhere between the harsh Tundra landscape and the south of England lies the key to their disappearance. We join extreme sportswoman Sacha Dench and award-winning wildlife cameraman Benjamin Sadd, as they follow the swans over 7,000 km, on a journey that pushes both humans and swans to the limits of their endurance. Cutting-edge tracking techonology and innovative filming techniques give privileged insight into the birds' hidden world, providing stunning aerial views and the personal stories of swans, Charlotte, Daisy-Clarke and Leho.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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Withnail & I
Overview: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-19
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The Rainbow
Overview: Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Hornblower: Mutiny
Overview: Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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Doctor Who
Overview: The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-12
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Tiger Island
Overview: Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionaire is catching the killers and releasing them on his land. Is this madness, or could it save them from extinction?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-26
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Super Powered Owls
Overview: With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved birds. And yet it's rare to catch more than a glimpse of one in the wild. These mysterious birds haunt our night, floating through the darkness with an eerie silence. But how do they see in the dark? And how do they fly so silently? Through the eyes of two special barn owl chicks and with the help of world leading scientists, Natural World reveals the magic behind owls' superpowers.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-03
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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Overview: The history of still life painting with oil paints
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-05
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The Orangutan King
Overview: For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one today who is a legend. He's won more than just a kingdom, he's won human hearts. They gave him the name Kusasi. The Orangutan King is the story of Kusasi's life told to us by a remarkable witness. Dr Birute M. Galdikas has been researching orangutans in Borneo for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, Dr Galdikas will draw audiences deep into the orangutan universe. With enthusiasm and insight she tells us this special story - taking us back 30 years and unfolding Kusasi's story with detail, energy, and the wonder that she still feels for the orangutan species. As a three year old orphan, Kusasi fell under the care of Galdikas in her forest research camp. But driven by a cunning and tenacious spirit Kusasi did not behave as the other ex-captive infants.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Overview: Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-05
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Hornblower: Duty
Overview: Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Mia and the Dragon Princess
Overview: Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
Genres: Action Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
Overview: With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-16
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My Kingdom
Overview: A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junkie -- and prostitute -- rejects her inheritance, pitting sisters Kath and Tracy against each other.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Godard & Others
Overview: An uncompromising anarchic comedy about the state of independent film making in Britain's ever increasing surveillance society. With specific reference to Godard's call to revolutionary action with his movie La Chinoise we follow the exploits of two guerrilla film makers in contemporary London as they try to make relevant and committed films whilst at the same time keeping one step ahead of the authorities - we see all this while being lectured by a charismatic teacher on how to survive with a camera in Britain today.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Overview: Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. Turing's achievements went unrecognised during his lifetime. Instead he ended up being treated as a common criminal, for being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were a crime. In 1952, he was convicted of 'gross indecency' with another man and was forced to undergo so-called 'organo-therapy' - chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41. Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-17
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Overview: Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks 'Who is the Doctor? What makes him tick? What will make the Twelfth Doctor unique?'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Catherine the Great
Overview: Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-28
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Dealers
Overview: The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Paper Mask
Overview: A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Hornblower: Retribution
Overview: Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-15
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Downtime
Overview: Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old son Jake. When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake in an elevator after a drunken gang crashes into the elevator's engine room and creates havoc.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Overview: A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his local cinema as well as regular sessions with his therapist. A disturbance outside his flat leads to a strange encounter, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-03
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Swallow Your Dreams
Overview: James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expense of his marriage - he attempts to re-create in waking life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-12
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Otherworld
Overview: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-26
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Withnail and Us
Overview: A short documentary about the making of "Withnail & I" (1987).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-04
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Drowning in the Shallow End
Overview: Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-28
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The Day of the Sun Dog
Overview: A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’ leads to a sign from the afterlife she’s been so desperately seeking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-26
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If I Had You
Overview: A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in which her married ex-lover is the chief suspect.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-01
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Brady and Hindley: Possession
Overview: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been front page news ever since. Ian Brady fantasized about committing the perfect murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-11
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Hotel!
Overview: The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to by a host of wacky characters who obviously don't get out much.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-17
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull home in the country and frolic in town. Algernon uses a similar technique, only in reverse: His imaginary friend, Bunbury, provides a convenient and frequent method of taking adventures in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of crises that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits; Jack of his love Gwendolen Fairfax, and Algernon of his belle Cecily Cardew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-29
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Star Trek Story
Overview: Gene Roddenberry's Utopian vision of humanity in the 24th century had a profound effect on American viewers. During the height of the Cold War, the tension of the civil rights movement and the jingoism of the Vietnam War, they saw a multicultural crew working together on the bridge of the Enterprise. Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Nichelle Nicols, Brent Spiner and others reflect on Star Trek's cultural impact over its 30-year history, and contemplate its future on the small screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Overview: With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Undertaker
Overview: A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Talking Doctor Who
Overview: As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doctor’s classic era.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Doctor Who Am I
Overview: In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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My Dad Was a Communist
Overview: Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
Overview: A hugely successful television and film actor, Paul McGann played the Eighth incarnation of Doctor Who in the 1996 television film - a pilot that, sadly, was never taken to series. However that wasn’t the end … Paul has since reprised the role in an ongoing series of audio plays by Big Finish. Also, as part of Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, Paul starred in the mini-episode The Night of the Doctor, where his Doctor finally regenerates - 17 years after his first television appearance! Then, in November 2013 he also briefly appeared in the comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. A lot for Ace interviewer Sophie Aldred to discuss with Paul when Myth Makers finally caught up with him at Island Con, held on the Isle of Wight, in 2018.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-23
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Lie with Me
Overview: Roselyn Tyler awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that she was drugged and sexually assaulted -- and her roommate is dead. When investigating cop Will Tomlinson can't make the charges stick against the prime suspect, he and Roselyn scheme to put him behind bars. But she soon learns that lies have hazardous consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-15
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Cariani and the Courtesans
Overview: When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger and deceit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Death of an Idealist
Overview: Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Empire of the Sun
Overview: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Overview: In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Overview: In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne Ashbrook was cast as the eighth Doctor’s assistant, Grace Holloway. Bold and new, the film gave Paul McGann the chance to play Doctor Who and Daphne made Grace a powerful and uncompromising character … and a controversial love interest for The Doctor! In the Summer of 2004, Daphne visited the UK to make some personal appearances and re-join the world of Doctor Who, by recording an audio play, The Next Life, for Big Finish! In this unique programme, featuring interviews, appearances, signings … and film of Daphne’s Big Finish recording with Paul McGann, we discover much about this talented actress and her memories of filming the Doctor Who TV Movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-01
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Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Overview: When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. The real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts. This remarkable feature-length documentary combines rare and unseen archive footage with interviews with the surviving cosmonauts to tell the fascinating and at times terrifying story of how the Russians led us into the space age. A particular highlight is Alexei Leonov, the man who performed the first spacewalk, explaining how he found himself trapped outside his spacecraft 500 miles above the Earth. Scary stuff.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-13
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Gaskin
Overview: Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Queen of the Damned
Overview: Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world, rekindling the desires of all-powerful Akasha.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Overview: Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-11
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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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The Hanging Gale
Overview: In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Brakes
Overview: Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Overview: The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Overview: It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China, stretching thousands of miles across barren deserts and treacherous mountains before finally plunging into the sea. But why did the Chinese go to such staggering lengths to build it, and what are the secrets that have enabled it to survive for over 2,000 years? Now, ground breaking science is re-writing its complex history and de-coding its mysteries to reveal that there is much more to the Great Wall than just bricks and mortar. Cutting edge chemistry reveals that the secret to the Great Wall's remarkable strength is a simple ingredient found in every kitchen, and a new survey also determines that its length is truly amazing, as we finally solve the enigma at the heart of the world's greatest mega-structure.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-30
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
Overview: At a late-night meeting with nine colleagues, James, an executive of some sort, wants action to avoid their potential loss of millions of pounds daily. He throws a tantrum when one man, Bill, urges caution instead of action. Jim leaves the meeting and, while driving to his office, has a mobile phone conversation with Bill. Something unexpected happens and Bill suddenly has a great deal of leverage. A power play ensues, and things become clearer at press conference the next morning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-03
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Absence
Overview: Absence offers a snapshot of a man mourning someone very close to him, and over the course of the film we get some clues as to the sinister cause of his grief.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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The 9/11 Surfer
Overview: Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery Channel documentary on the 11th anniversary of the tragedy told the story of survivor Pasquale Buzzelli, who may or may not be the surfer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Fables of Forgotten Things
Overview: A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-01
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Blood Strangers
Overview: A mother is dealt a double blow when she learns that her murdered teenage daughter was working as a prostitute.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-03
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Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Overview: The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famous band. The documentary looks at the emergence of the 'Bristol Sound' in the 1980s culminating in the release of Massive Attack's first album. Narrated by actor Paul McGann - who was a part of Bristol's creative scene throughout this period - it traces the history of the scene. From the sound system culture that arrived in the city with the immigrants from the Caribbean, and how that mixed with the existing punk and new wave scene in Bristol, to hip-hop which arrived in Bristol from New York before any other city in Britain was aware of it. It explores how this clash of cultures and musical styles gave the city a musical identity which to that point it lacked, unlike other industrial cities in Britain such as Liverpool and Manchester.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-05
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B&B
Overview: Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote Christian B&B. Events take a deadly turn when another guest arrives, who they think might have something more sinister in mind.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-13
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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Overview: In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vancouver, Canada. Sylvester McCoy flew out to join the production team to re-create his role as the Seventh Doctor and to hand over to Paul McGann. In this behind-the-scenes video diary, Sylvester gives us a personal account of his final days as the famous Timelord. Reminiscing about the "old days" and drawing comparisons with the experience of working on this latest adventure, he talks to Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook (Dr Grace Holloway) from the new production and Anneke Wills (Polly) from the show's past. All shot on Hi-8 camcorder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-01
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FairyTale: A True Story
Overview: In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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The Monk
Overview: In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-17
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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Overview: Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors David Tennant, Paul McGann, Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy are joined in providing insights by Rula Lenska, Simon Pegg, Adam Garcia, John Barrowman, Russell T. Davis and Graham Cole!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-31
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The Other Prince William
Overview: For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding the lost legacy of the royal family's forgotten star.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-12
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Picasso's Last Stand
Overview: Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both death’s approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics. Those who were members of Picasso’s private inner circle – gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up – put the later work forward as some of his frankest, wittiest and most profound.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-24
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JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Overview: Documentary investigating the events during and after the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-13
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China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-18
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World of Compulsive Hoarders
Overview: Four compulsive hoarders are driven to accumulate objects but can't bear to throw them out -- to the point where their "stuff" takes over their lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-02
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Art Is...
Overview: A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Overview: Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Churchill: When Britain Said No
Overview: Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just led the country to victory in the World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-02
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Davros Connections
Overview: Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls together the whole of the Davros Boxset into a single chronology, as well as being a fascinating documentary in its own right. This is an in-depth look at the history of the Daleks' creator, Davros, as portrayed in both the TV stories from the BBC and in audio adventures from official licensee Big Finish. With actors Terry Molloy, David Gooderson and Peter Miles, producer/director Gary Russell, director Ken Grieve, writers Eric Saward, Ben Aaronovitch, Gary Hopkins and Joseph Lidster. Narrated by Terry Molloy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Overview: The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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Ghosts on the Underground
Overview: More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising documentary investigates the supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world, exploring the graves, church crypts and plague pits that tube tunnels have disrupted.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-31
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The Biographer
Overview: Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-01
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Doctor Who: Shada
Overview: Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remounted version of the abandoned Fourth Doctor serial, rewritten to feature the Eighth Doctor and fit in with the Big Finish audio drama continuity.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-02
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The Day John Lennon Died
Overview: Reconstructing John’s last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John knew and those he encountered before his assassination by Mark Chapman, relive one of the most momentous and tragic events in music history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-06
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Streets of Yesterday
Overview: This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Whistling Wally
Overview: 17 year old Kevin discovers that his sick father, Whistling Wally, is dying.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-06
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Listening
Overview: At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Overview: Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On" - a unique documentary feature, telling the untold, complete and colourful story of the 'greatest club in the world'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-24
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Tree of Hands
Overview: A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-07
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Overview: The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Overview: Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. This super-sized tomb has fascinated historians and archaeologists for centuries, but exactly how the ancient Egyptians finished the monument and fitted its two and a half million blocks in a quarter of a century has long remained an enigma. Today the secrets of the pyramid are finally being revealed thanks to a series of new findings. At the foot of the monument, archaeologists are uncovering the last surviving relic of the pharaoh Khufu, whose tomb it is: a huge ceremonial boat buried in flat-pack form for more than 4500 years. It's a clue that points to the important role that ships and water could have played in the pyramids' construction. This documentary follows investigations that reveal how strong the link between pyramids and boats is. It's a story of more than how Egypt built a pyramid: it's about how the pyramid helped build the modern world.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-24
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Perplexed Music
Overview: The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Paul McGann as he battles for reason and stability with worlds past and present in need of closure and the strength to continue on his life's journey without his long-term companion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Kidnapped
Overview: 15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Digging The Great Escape
Overview: The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live that situation. In an effort to understand the technical details of how this feet of ingenuity was achieved, the team recreate some of the equipment used by the prisoners.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-28
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Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
Overview: Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in the tin mines have sent a chill through the community, and it's up to the Doctor and Charley to get to the bottom of the mystery. Can the legends of the Bucca that haunts the mines be true? And just what awesome power do the Doctor's greatest enemies - the Daleks! - threaten to unleash upon the universe?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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Doctor Who at the Proms
Overview: Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-24
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Overview: The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Mystery Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Overview: It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Churchill’s Forgotten War
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2024-05-04
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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