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Collection of TV dramas by the acclaimed British film maker Ken Loach. 'The Big Flame' (1967) and 'Rank and File' (1971) are trademark Loach dramas, detailing with sympathy the plight of workers caught up in industrial disputes at the Liverpool docks and the Pilkington glassworks, respectively. 'Three Clear Sundays' (1965) tells the story of Danny (Tony Selby), a young man facing up to the death penalty after an attempt to help reduce the sentence of two other prison inmates goes badly wrong. 'Days of Hope' (1975) is an epic four-part series starring Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton and Nikolas Simmonds as members of a working class family whose fortunes are depicted from the end of WWI to what they perceive as their betrayal in the General Strike of 1926. 'The End of Arthur's Marriage' (1965) offers something of a departure from Loach's conventional films, an adaptation of a musical scripted by Christopher Logue. 'In Two Minds' (1967) stars Anna Cropper and examines the plight of those suffering from schizophrenia. 'Up the Junction' (1965) raised the issue of abortion, at the time illegal, and played a major role in shaping public debate on the issue. Its influence in this regard was possibly only surpassed by Loach's most famous TV drama 'Cathy Come Home' (1966), which follows the struggles of young bride Cathy (Carol White) as she struggles to keep a roof over herself and her children in a housing system that seems constantly to be working against her. 'The Price of Coal' (1977) is a two-part drama set in a Yorkshire mining village which contrasts the humour of the working men (many played by actual comedians, including Duggie Brown) with the dangerous conditions in which they are forced to earn a living.
Made-for-television biopic, directed by Peter Hall, about the famous Biblical character. Jacob (Matthew Modine) and Esau (Sean Bean) are two brothers fighting for their father's affection and inheritance, driven to war, enmity, and eventual reconcilliation. Also featuring performances from Lara Flynn Boyle and Joss Ackland.
All nine two-part episodes from series 9 and 10 of the BBC crime series. The departure of Professor Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) has left doctors Leo Dalton (William Gaminara) and Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) in charge of the forensic pathology department. Meanwhile, new recruit Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) has also become an indispensable member of the team. In this series, the team investigates a diverse collection of cases including people trafficking, a woman killed in a fire, a spate of drive-by shootings and a possible copycat sex killer preying on women in London and Amsterdam. Episodes are: 'Ghosts', 'Choices', 'The Meaning of Death', 'Mind and Body', 'Cargo', 'Terminus', 'Body of Work', 'Supernova' and 'Schism'.
Murder On The Orient Express:
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This collection contains the entire eleventh series, featuring Blood Wedding, Shot at Dawn, Left for Dead, Midsomer Life, The Magician's Nephew, Days of Misrule, Talking to the Dead. Featuring the episodes in production order, this collection features the entire eleventh series, starring John Nettles and Jason Hughes. Set in the idyllic, picturesque county of Midsomer, Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby discovers that all is not as it seems and beneath the tranquil surface of village life exists a disturbing and cunning propensity for murder.
All 14 episodes from the second series of the BBC's classic yarn of 19th-century love and passion on the high seas. This series heralds the end of the American Civil War, leading to new opportunities for the shipping trade - but James (Peter Gilmore) is preoccupied with both business and personal troubles. Meanwhile, as struggling seamen prepare to strike, Anne (Anne Stallybrass) is torn between her principles and loyalty to her husband. Episodes are: 'The Hard Case', 'Pound and Pint', 'A Woman Alone', 'Fetch and Carry', 'Yellow Jack', 'Survivor', 'Coffin Ship', 'Frisco Bound', 'Beyond the Upper Sea', 'An Inch of Candle', 'Goodbye, Goodbye', 'Bloody Week', 'The Challenge' and 'Race for Power'.
A selection of BBC plays and observational pieces written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett. The collection includes: 'A Visit From Miss Prothero', 'Sunset Across the Bay', 'A Day Out', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Our Winnie', 'An Englishman Abroad', 'Dinner at Noon', 'The Insurance Man', '102 Boulevard Haussman', 'A Question of Attribution' and 'Portrait Or Bust'.
All eight episodes from the season 8 of the British detective drama starring John Nettles as Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby, who uncovers the crimes hidden beneath the facade of local village life with the help of trusty Sergeant Gavin Troy.
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All nine episodes from the third and fourth seasons of the crime drama set in the picturesque county of Midsomer, where Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is continually reminded that beneath the tranquil surface of village life exists a disturbing propensity for murder.
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All nine episodes from the first two season of the popular British detective drama starring John Nettles. Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby uncovers the crimes hidden beneath the facade of local village life, with the help of trusty Sergeant Gavin Troy.
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The lavish adaptation of Thomas Hardy's literary classic of Tess, the poor peasant girl who becomes a social outcast after she falls pregnant with the child of her rich cousin.
Gina McKee, Ioan Grufford, Damian Lewis and Rupert Graves star in this TV adaptation of John Galsworthy's classic story of London society in the early years of the twentieth century. Soames Forsyte (Lewis) is a partner in the family law firm and a resolute believer in the stability of the old moral order. However, his relationship with his wife Irene (McKee) is troubled from the outset, and when she begins having an affair, it starts to tear the family apart.
George C Scott reprises the role he originally played in 'Patton' (1970) as the charismatic World War II hero, in this sequel which traces the general's last six months, from the war's end to the freak accident which robbed him of his life.
Bill Paterson and Peter Capaldi star in this BBC adaptation of the Iain Banks novel. Seven years after Rory McHoan disappeared without a trace en route to visit his brother Kenneth, Rory's nephew Prentice decides to find out what really happened to him. He attempts to decipher Rory's inaccessible computer disks, but must make various discoveries about himself and his family first.
Jess (Charlotte Coleman) is the adopted daughter of an over-enthusiastic evangelist (Geraldine McEwan), whose views on life have been shaped by Bible classes and religious radio shows. When Jess grows up she meets Melanie and their close friendship turns to passion - something that her horrified mother and local pastor believe is the work of the Devil, and they set out to take drastic action to save Jess from the evil temptation. This adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's bestselling novel won three BAFTA awards, including Best Actress (McEwan) and Best Drama Series.
Sarah Phelps's adaptation of Charles Dickens's much-loved novel, featuring a host of great British character actors. In a dank, candlelit room on a stormy winter night, Oliver Twist (William Miller) is born into a life of seemingly hopeless poverty. Escaping the cruelty of the workhouse he has grown up in, the young orphan makes his way to London where he meets a gang of pickpockets, led by the charismatic Fagin (Timothy Spall), and receives the first warm welcome of his life - unaware that this kindness comes at a price. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow (Edward Fox) brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But evil lurks on the horizon in the form of Bill Sykes (Tom Hardy) ...
Based on supposedly true events, The Monocled Mutineer is the story of dashing rogue and master of disguise, Percy Toplis. Written by Alan Bleasdale, this BAFTA-winning series provoked intense political controversy on its broadcast in 1986 and, after an initial repeat has not been shown since on British television. Private Toplis was already a chancer and a rebel, thanks to his tough childhood, when he arrived at the Etaples training camp in northern France in June 1917. But it was there, on the eve of the Battle of Passchendaele, as the soldiers were put through a brutal training regime, that Toplis instigated a mutiny which would shake the British authorities to the core. Now a marked man, relying on his talent for impersonating the officer class, Toplis escapes to England where he falls in love with a young widow, but as the most wanted man in Britain, his struggle for freedom becomes increasingly desperate...
Drama starring Jason Isaacs. Ambassador Mark Brydon (Isaacs) finds his skills tested to the limits when, following a major diplomatic incident, he is thrust into a web of tangled relationships and conflicting interests. In a world of high stakes, where manipulation of information means ultimate power, the question is: who can he trust?
Television adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel, starring Keeley Hawes and Tom Georgeson. In a rural English village in the mid-19th century, an impoverished young man falls in love with a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over. At the same time, in the local church the traditional choir is about to be replaced by a brand new modern organ, with, controversially, a female organist.
All six episodes from the first series of the surreal BBC dark comedy, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Chris (Reeves) and Carl (Mortimer) are two estranged brothers who have not seen each other for 15 years, but who join up out of Carl's desperation to find his missing son. Heading towards the town of Catterick, the last place he was seen, the two brothers begin a nightmarish journey on the margins of contemporary Britain. On the way they meet a sinister B & B proprietor (Matt Lucas), a psychotic mass murderer, and become involved in an ongoing police investigation into a shooting at a car dealership.
From the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and starring Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner, Yellowstone revolves around the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest ranch in the U.S. that is under constant attack by those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation and America’s first National Park. This is a world where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by one of the world’s largest oil and lumber corporations. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.
All 23 episodes from the second season of the 1970s series set in the 1870s, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin priest and humble man of peace now living in the Wild West. Episodes are: 'The Well', 'The Assassin', 'The Chalice', 'The Brujo', 'The Spirit Helper', 'The Squaw Man', 'The Salamander', 'The Tong', 'The Soldier', 'The Hoots', 'The Elixir', 'The Gunman', 'Empty Pages of a Dead Book', 'A Dream Within a Dream', 'The Way of Violence Has No Mind', 'In Uncertain Bondage', 'Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves', 'Crossties', 'The Passion of Chen Yi', 'The Arrogant Dragon', 'The Nature of Evil', 'The Cenotaph (Part 1)' and 'The Cenotaph (Part 2)'.
Welcome to The Grapes - a Northern pub of warmth, good cheer and nicotine. Where the regulars ponder their lives, loves and who's been leaving fag ends in the blocked urinals. Will Ken the landlord ever find out? Does Melanie ever find her real Dad? Will Jean get to go to Crete? Who did father Janice's baby? Can crime crack itself? Will Eddie get to share his concern over the installation of temporary traffic lights on Samuel Street? Does anybody give a toss? No!
What is an ordinary couple? Here, as six relationships are put under the microscope of the camera, the universal themes of sex, power, illness, perversion and hair loss are dramatically revealed. AN ENGLISH SQUEAK: The apparently bucolic artisto-existence of Peter and Flick is shadowed by an ailment on her part that makes physical intimacy impossible. SLITHER IN: "Ignorance is bliss, that to me is the beauty of a coma." B&B owners Gordon and Sheila fit their swinging lifestyle alongside looking after Sheila's bedridden sister. ALL OVER MY GLASSES: Michelle and Stephen are planning their wedding day. The first dance is R-Kelly's Bump and Grind and there's five boxes of Doritos for the reception. STRAIGHT AS A FLUTE: When not making curly sausage casseroles for the vicar, Beverley and Tony survey their neighbour's Satan-inspired garden and tell of life under the full gaze of the Lord. HAIRLESS: "My songs are like my children" says singer Fonte. "Yet they're also like my parents or a special uncle, who is particularly friendly at Christmas time. MORE THAN HAPPY: "You hear of people who have all sorts of sexual hang-ups.... and I'm one of them" Les's optimism has carried him and Ray through eight traumatic married years.
The entire first and second series of the cult TV show. In the first season, a group of builders from England go over to Germany to work on a site by day, and do their bit for European harmony and understanding by night. Whilst in the second season, the likeable Geordies along with boring Barry from Wolverhampton and Londoner Wayne, find themselves in the exotic location of Marbella, following the success of their trip to Germany. |
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