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Dramatic retelling of the biblical story of Moses, who returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery after receiving a fiery message from God. Dougray Scott stars as Moses, leading a cast that also includes Linus Roache, Mia Maestro, Richard O'Brien, Raul Rhys and Omar Sharif.
Uplifting made-for-TV drama starring Toby Jones.The extraordinary true story of Neil Baldwin (Jones) is told as he overcomes early obstacles in life to embark on a journey that leads him to many fascinating encounters. The many achievements in his varied life are shown as he goes from woking as a clown in the circus to being awarded an honorary degree at Keele University and managing their unofficial football team named after him. His experience in football even leads him to becoming the kitman and mascot for his beloved Stoke City F.C. where he is adored by fans and staff. After a late career change to pursue his interest in religion, Neil becomes a preacher which leads him to the House of Commons and tea with MP Tony Benn and a chance meeting with royalty. Gemma Jones also stars as Neil's mother Mary.
Drama starring Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser and Julian Rhind-Tutt. When Robert Watson-Watt (Izzard) pioneered his radar system that could detect the enemy during war, he hand-picked a team of meteorologists to help him convince the powers that be that it could really work. Struggling on a very small budget and battling personal issues Watson-Watt continued to fight for his dream and by 1939 had developed the world's very first radar system which went on to prove invaluable in winning the Battle of Britain. The cast also includes Lesley Harcourt, Alex Jennings and Celyn Jones.
All four episodes of the drama miniseries about the life of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne-Marie Duff stars as the Virgin Queen and portrays pivotal moments in her life as monarch including her passionate affair with Robert Dudley (Tom Hardy), her triumph over the Armada and her unorthodox relationship with the Earl of Essex (Hans Matheson).
Clint Eastwood directs this feature film adaptation of the multi award-winning Broadway musical about 1960s pop group The Four Seasons. John Lloyd Young reprises his stage role as Frankie Valli, who is discovered by guitarist Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza), and along with bass player Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) and keyboardist/songwriter Bob Gaudio (Erich Gergen) forms The Four Seasons. They sign a contract with producer Bob Crewe (Mike Doyle) and gradually find success but relationships within the band become strained over time. Narrated by each group member in turn, the story follows their rise to fame and eventual break-up, as well as the personal troubles they face along the way. The film features songs such as 'Rag Doll', 'Sherry', 'Big Girls Don't Cry', 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' and 'Who Loves You'.
Documentary drama about British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. After serving as a codebreaker during World War II, Turing designed the Automatic Computing Engine and helped to develop the Manchester computers. In 1952 he was convicted of homosexual acts and to avoid going to prison he accepted a course of hormonal injections to reduce his sex drive. Two years later he was found dead and was reported to have committed suicide, though many believe it to have been accidental. The film features contributions from those who knew him and experts who explain how his work has proved significant to the development of technology, while Ed Stoppard portrays Turing in re-enactments of his conversations with psychiatrist Dr. Franz Greenbaum (Henry Goodman).
All ten episodes from the seventh and final season of the offbeat vampire drama adapted from Charlaine Harris's 'The Southern Vampire Mysteries' book series by writer Alan Ball. In this season, the vampire and human population of Bon Temps is in danger with the spread of the Hep V infection. Sookie (Anna Paquin) asks Bill (Stephen Moyer) to help her save the town but they soon have to face a shocking realisation.
Festive family drama directed by Terry Ingram and starring Erin Karpluk. When Mary (Karpluk) stumbles upon the lodge where she spent her holidays as a child, she finds it in a state of disrepair. Saddened by this and inspired by her grandfather, she vows to restore it. Throughout her project she becomes attracted to a local man, Jack (Michael Shanks), and together they work on the lodge, becoming more and more attracted to each other and finding the true meaning of Christmas.
Third season of the US drama based on the Danish TV series. Though following the close of the Rosie Larsen case Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) is no longer working as a detective, her former partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman)'s investigation into a serial killer who appears to have a connection to one of Sarah's old cases draws her back into the field. Can she stop the killer before he strikes again? The episodes are: 'The Jungle', 'That You Fear the Most', 'Seventeen', 'Head Shots', 'Scared and Running', 'Eminent Domain', 'Hope Kills', 'Try', 'Reckoning', 'Six Minutes', 'From Up Here' and 'The Road to Hamelin'.
All ten episodes from the second season of the mystery thriller series starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. A modern reimagining and contemporary prequel to the 1960 Hitchcock classic 'Psycho', the series follows the strange relationship between Norman Bates (Highmore) and his overbearing mother Norma (Farmiga). After the recent death of her husband, Norma moves to White Pine Bay, Oregon, with her son to start afresh running a motel business on the Pacific coast. It isn't long before the mother-son relationship becomes something of a community concern, but Norman and Norma both soon realise that White Pine Bay's citizens have many secrets of their own... The episodes are: 'Gone But Not Forgotten', 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'Caleb', 'Check-Out', 'The Escape Artist', 'Plunge', 'Presumed Innocent', 'Meltdown', 'The Box' and 'The Immutable Truth'.
John Madden directs this British comedy drama starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith. The film follows the experiences of a group of elderly Brits who arrive to take up residence in a newly-opened retirement home in Bangalore, India. Despite its glossy publicity campaign, the Marigold turns out to be rather different from the refurbished luxury hotel advertised in the brochures. However, it soon begins to reveal some unexpected charms of its own.
Television drama charting the dazzling and hazardous sea journey from England to Australia in 1812 as experienced through the eyes of a young Englishman, Edmund Talbot. Based on the trilogy by William Golding, the bulk of the story is set on board a ship on the high seas towards the end of the Napoleonic War.
All four seasons of the action-packed drama following rogue agent Nikita. Three years after escaping Division, the covert government agency that trained her to be an assassin, Nikita returns to bring down the organisation. Nikita's former mentor, Michael, has been instructed to take care of the situation, meanwhile the agency has a mole in its midst.
Tragic drama chronicling the last day of Oscar Grant III, who was fatally shot in the back by a police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station in the early hours of New Year's Day 2009. The film follows Oscar (Michael B. Jordan) as he tries to start afresh before the beginning of the new year by being a better father to his daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal) and a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina (Melonie Diaz). Later in the evening, Oscar travels to San Francisco to attend a New Year's party and it is when he is returning from the festivities that a fight breaks out between him and an old prison acquaintance. The police are then alerted to the trouble and take Oscar and his friends into custody. Shortly afterwards, a lapse in judgement by one of the police officers leads to a tragic outcome.
British gang drama starring Steve Brunton, Bert Truby and Paul Lee King. After learning of the tragic death of his young nephew Danny (Tommy Ivers), ex-gangster Charlie Thompson (Brunton) returns to his former turf to seek revenge and to protect the last surviving member of his family, nephew Frankie (Truby). When he finds out that Frankie blames him for Danny's death Charlie tries his best to set the record straight and get even on those who have done him wrong.
All 23 episodes from the second season of the US action drama based on the DC Comics hero Green Arrow. After being shipwrecked and stranded on an island for five years, millionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returns home to Starling City. It is clear that his experiences on the island have changed him and, disguised as a hooded figure known as Arrow, he uses the new skills he has developed to fight crime, including the corruption taking place within his deceased father's company. In this series, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) puts herself forward as bait when a violent criminal from Lance (Katie Cassidy)'s past flees prison and seeks revenge. The episodes are: 'City of Heroes', 'Identity', 'Broken Dolls', 'Crucible', 'League of Assassins', 'Keep Your Enemies Closer', 'State Vs Queen', 'The Scientist', 'Three Ghosts', 'Blast Radius', 'Blind Spot', 'Tremors', 'Heir to the Demon', 'Time of Death', 'The Promise', 'Suicide Squad', 'Birds of Prey', 'Deathstroke', 'The Man Under the Hood', 'Seeing Red', 'City of Blood', 'Streets of Fire' and 'Unthinkable'.
Peter Davison and Samantha Bond star in this comedy drama series about a plastic surgeon who relocates his family to the remote island of Hildasay to take a new job as a small community GP. How will the modern urbanites cope with their new way of life in the middle of nowhere? Matthew Thomas Davies, Claudia Renton and Berwick Kaler also star.
Helen Thornhill and Rosemary Leach star in this classic BBC drama, based on novel by Laurie Lee. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy Cotswold village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny Wallon (Mary Merrall)'s homebrew gives way to a darker vision of country life. As a young boy suffers at the hands of a sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he then experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Thornhill).
Live performance of the William Shakespeare comedy starring Michelle Terry, Olivia Ross and Joshua Silver. The play tells the story of Hermia (Ross) and Lysander (Luke Thompson), two young people who have fallen in love. There is just one problem: Hermia is bethrothed to Demetrius (Silver). When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away to the forest to be together in peace, they come across a group of people rehearsing a play to perform at the wedding of Theseus (John Light) and Hippolyta (Terry). Meanwhile, the King and Queen of the forest, Oberon and Titania (also played by Light and Terry) exercise their powers mischievously and cause havoc for everyone around.
The complete third season of the US legal drama that follows the cases of a pair of New York lawyers, only one of whom attended law school. In this season, a high-profile case involving the oil executive Dr. Ava Hessington (Michelle Fairley) pits Harvey (Gabriel Macht) against his former mentor Cameron Dennis (Gary Cole), who is leading the prosecution. Meanwhile, Mike (Patrick J. Adams) must deal with the potential consequences of his revelations to Rachel (Meghan Markle) about his past. The episodes are: 'The Arrangement', 'I Want You to Want Me', 'Unfinished Business', 'Conflict of Interest', 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'The Other Time', 'She's Mine', 'Endgame', 'Bad Faith', 'Stay', 'Buried Secrets', 'Yesterday's Gone', 'Moot Point', 'Heartburn', 'Know When to Fold 'Em' and 'No Way Out'.
Low-budget sci-fi drama following a couple who are grieving after the loss of their child. Rich Hadley (Jonathon Lamer) and his wife Jamie (Theresa Layne) are distraught after the death of their son. One night while Rich is out walking their dog he encounters a group of people who he later discovers are soul collectors - collecting the souls of their deceased loved ones and releasing them into heaven through vortexes. With this in mind, Rich becomes obsessed with the idea of finding his son and seeing him one last time before he lets go.
Tavi Driver provoked fierce contraversy when it was released, running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be 'as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw lings' (Evening News 76). In addition, there was outcry at 17-year-old schoolgirl actress JODIE FOSTER) co-starring as a prostitute.
Richard Madden, Rebecca Hall and Alan Rickman star in this drama directed by Patrice Leconte. When Friederich Zeitz (Madden) lands a job with German nobleman Karl Hoffmeister (Rickman) he throws himself into the position while also agreeing to tutor Karl's son. As Friederich gets closer to young Otto Hoffmeister (Toby Murray) he also forms a bond with his employer's wife Lotte (Hall). When Karl suspects that his wife is growing too fond of his employee, he sends Friederich to Mexico for a two-year position supervising a mining project. Upon his departure, Friederich and Lotte agree to stay faithful to each other, however, when war breaks out Friederich's homecoming is severely delayed. Will Lotte stay true to her word or will time and distance get in their way?
Live performance of William Shakespeare's play recorded at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London. The story follows Macbeth (Joseph Millson) who is told by three witches that he is destined to be King of Scotland. When he relays this information to his wife she immediately sets out a plan to get her husband where he needs to be, the first agenda being to kill the present King, Duncan (Gawn Grainger).
All six episodes of the British drama starring Chris Kenna, Jamie Dorrington and Ashif Ashik. The series follows the lives of a group of young people living on the streets of Manchester, tackling the issues of racism, drug abuse, violence and religion. The episodes are: 'Repp Your Endz', 'Endz Justifies the Means', 'Beginning of the Endz', 'Endz of the Line', 'Dead Endz' and 'Endz Game'. |
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