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The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and shot on location in Paris and London.
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Posguerra en Alemania, año 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) aterriza en las ruinas de Hamburgo en pleno invierno para reunirse con su marido, Lewis (Jason Clarke), un coronel británico que ha recibido la misión de reconstruir la ciudad destruida. Pero cuando van a mudarse a su nueva casa, Rachael descubre con asombro que Lewis ha tomado una decisión inesperada: compartirán la enorme casa con sus antiguos propietarios, un viudo alemán (Alexander Skarsgård) y su atormentada hija. En esta atmósfera cargada, la hostilidad y el dolor dan paso a la pasión y la traición.
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Una mujer británica recuerda su juventud durante la Primera Guerra Mundial en este relato autobiográfico de Vera Brittain, ambientado entre 1913 y 1925, ya adaptado para la televisión por la BBC en los años setenta. Justo tras el estallido de la I Guerra Mundial, la joven Vera duda entre sus estudios en Oxford o convertirse en enfermera para ayudar a los heridos en el frente.
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La biógrafa Margaret Lea viaja a la aislada mansión rural de la famosa escritora Vida Winter, que le pide que escriba su biografía. Aunque al principio se muestra reacia, ya que Vida es conocida por distorsionar constantemente los hechos de su vida, Margaret queda pronto fascinada por la historia de una infancia oscura, un cuento inquietante que le obliga a enfrentarse finalmente a los traumas de su propio pasado.
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At 8.46AM on September 11th 2001, American Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Within minutes a deluge of telephone calls flooded into the outside world. Voices From Inside the Towers is about those calls, and the stories behind those who made them.
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En la Inglaterra del siglo XIX, la huérfana y rica heredera, Anne Lister, vive con su tío y su tía, quienes quieren verla felizmente casada al desconocer que es lesbiana. Anne va guardando sus pensamientos en un diario encriptado. Cuando su amante, Mariana Belcombe, se casa con el rico Charles Lawton por conveniencia, Anne se siente traicionada a pesar de las visitas de Mariana. La relación entre ambas parece no ir a ningún sitio. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Trapped in The Twin Towers on September 11th, thousands of ordinary people struggled to make contact with the outside world. Many knew that time was ticking away. These recorded messages and private calls are the most powerful legacy to the families left behind. Often full of love and dignity they depict humanity at its best and most resourceful in the face of evil.
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A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
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Esta película innovadora combina un contundente documental con el poder emocional de la música, para iluminar las vidas de personas reales atrapadas en conflictos. En el fondo son historias de gente común - un niño, un soldado y una madre.
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Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
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Much like the battle that takes place in arguably Wells' most famous novel, this made for TV film seems to have a battle of it's own in the attempt to fully round the character of one of the most contentious authors of the twentieth century.
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Gianni Versace’s life story reads like a classic Greek tragedy: from the poor south of Italy, he worked himself up to the most powerful and most desired fashion designer in the world, but was eventually shot dead on the steps of his Miami villa by his secret lover. In his more than decadent lifestyle, Versace preferably surrounded himself with the most garish stars on earth: Madonna, Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone, Elton John, Princess Diana - guests whom he liked to show off in his palazzos stuffed with Renaissance antiques. At the same time, he led a double life full of shady connections with the Mafia and gigolos specialising in sadomasochism. According to the makers of this documentary, Versace’s death was the ultimate celebrity killing in a media age obsessed with fame.
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This is the story finally revealed one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. A writer who, in a world that is wary of ideology, has finally found the place that was due to him and respect for those who prefer justice and truth to dogma and extremism.
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In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is stolen from her bedroom in the middle of the night. The most unlikely of victims in a seemingly motiveless crime. The abduction of Elizabeth Smart was so bizarre and unique that it transfixed America.
