Richard Wilson
Also Known As: ریچارد ویلسون
Biography: Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He played Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. A later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angel Coulby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
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Birthday: July 09, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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Whoops Apocalypse
Overview: When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-06
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Murder by the Book
Overview: Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Love and Other Disasters
Overview: Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Overview: Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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The Vision Thing
Overview: In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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Reichenbach Falls
Overview: A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in the Scottish capital with an old friend - a crime writer researching the new novel. Buchan's investigation takes him into the dark underworld of Edinburgh's literary past and leads him to question the very nature of his own existence.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-01
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Unnatural Pursuits
Overview: An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Women Talking Dirty
Overview: A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Normal Service
Overview: It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-02
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Kremlin Farewell
Overview: A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army
Overview: Former National Service Conscript - actor, Richard Wilson - takes a light hearted look at this taste of the army, experienced by so many young men after the war. 'Both Feet in the Army!' illustrates the trials and tribulations, the laughs and lunacies, of post-war National Service, through excerpts from sitcoms such as 'Get Some In' and from films such as 'Carry On Sergeant' and 'Privates Progress', to name just a few. During the peak years of the 1950s, over a quarter of a million youngsters were serving at home or abroad in any one year - and for the millions who spent two years of their youth in the Army, Navy or Air Force in peace time, the experience was unforgettable 'Both Feet in the Army!' captures those years for you.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-22
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Selling Hitler
Overview: In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-11
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The One Ronnie
Overview: One of Britain's most enduring and best-loved comics, Ronnie Corbett, turned 80 in December 2010. In this brand new comedy sketch show, the octogenarian comic legend appears alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy, in sketches featuring everything from a superannuated super-hero to a stage-struck dog. Add in a sprinkling of one-liners and a brand new Ronnie monologue in the famous chair for the must-see comedy of the festive season.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-25
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Overview: Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchhiker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Sweetly It Turns
Overview: A kitchen-sink drama following the lives of a working-class family in Wolverhampton as they deal with change and the passing of time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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G♭
Overview: 84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time staff shortage brings; he uses Grindr to invite 20-year-old rent-boy Iestyn to visit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-11
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The People’s Jack
Overview: A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Byrne About Byrne
Overview: In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Ted & Ralph
Overview: One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded stately home. His only friend is Ted (Paul Whitehouse), the elderly Irish estate worker. But their way of life is under threat: Ralph must marry before his 35th birthday or lose everything. Just when it all seems hopeless, along comes Wendy (Kathy Burke). As Ralph's affection for Wendy grows, his dependence on Ted wanes. Is this the end of a beautiful friendship ? Is Wendy all that she seems ? Will Ralph go through with the marriage ? And will he save the Hall ?
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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The Day They Buried Cleaver
Overview: The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majority. According to the book he is wrong, blatantly wrong. Now his nephew, Police Constable Tom Corsby is out to expose his corruption.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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A Harlot's Progress
Overview: Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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Danny & the Human Zoo
Overview: A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-31
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The Four Minute Mile
Overview: A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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Junket 89
Overview: Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-30
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The Trouble with 2B
Overview: It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Prick Up Your Ears
Overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Lord of Misrule
Overview: Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-06
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
Overview: A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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King of Fridges
Overview: A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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A Dry White Season
Overview: During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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A Passage to India
Overview: Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Sherlock Gnomes
Overview: Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Carry On Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland
Overview: A varied history of gay people and Scotland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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Gnomeo & Juliet
Overview: A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-13
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Those Glory Glory Days
Overview: Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-17
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Poppyland
Overview: He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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One Foot in the Algarve
Overview: The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-26
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Bet Your Life
Overview: Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-21
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Pasmore
Overview: Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-21
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Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
Overview: An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Butter
Overview: Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Through the Night
Overview: The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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Fellow Traveller
Overview: In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Overview: Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins the first of Original Peter Rabbit TalesTM, which have been translated into 35 languages and have achieved international success in more than 117 countries worldwide. The beautiful illustrations are magically brought to life in this captivating series, including a live action introduction featuring Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter, specially tailored for each story. This DVD includes three delightful tales: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse", and "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck", all beautifully animated and featuring the voices of Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter), June Whitfield (Ab Fab) and others!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Shaping Up
Overview: Chrissie and Colum are to be married tomorrow. Happy? ' I feel sick', says Colum. ' I feel sick', says Chrissie-but there could be another reason for that.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Virginia Fly is Drowning
Overview: Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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The Portland Millions
Overview: Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-02
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Caledonian Cascade
Overview: A bored upper class Edinburgh woman decides to rebel against societal conventions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-13
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Confessions from the Underground
Overview: Documentary providing a rare glimpse into the depths of the London Underground as its staff strive under immense pressure to keep this hugely complex and strained system running. The programme uses anonymous accounts by staff members, voiced by actors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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