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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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레이첼 모건(키이라 나이틀리)은 쓰라린 겨울의 폐허가 된 함부르크에 도착하고 남편인 루이스(제이슨 클라크)와 재회하게 된다. 루이스는 영국의 대령으로 도시 재건에 대한 임무를 맡았다. 그러나 그들이 새로운 집에서 시작하려 할 때 레이첼은 루이스가 놀라운 결정을 했다는 사실을 알고 충격에 빠진다. 그들은 이전 소유주인 아내 잃은 독일인(알렉산더 스카스가드), 그의 문제많은 딸과 함께 대저택을 공동으로 사용하게 된다. 이런 감정이 잔뜩 고조된 분위기에서 증오와 비탄은 격노와 배신으로 변하게 된다.
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작가를 꿈꾸는 베라는 결혼을 권하는 아버지의 반대를 무릅쓰고 옥스포드 입학 준비를 한다. 든든한 지원군인 동생 에드워드, 베라를 짝사랑하는 빅터, 함께 문학의 길을 꿈꾸며 사랑을 키워나가는 롤랜드까지 네 사람은 함께 어울리며 즐거운 나날을 보낸다. 마침내 베라는 꿈에 그리던 옥스포드 입학 허가를 받게 되고 이들의 우정과 사랑은 더욱 깊어지는데… 캠퍼스 생활을 눈앞에 두고 한껏 들떠있던 어느 날, 전쟁이 발발하게 되고 에드워드와 빅터 그리고 연인인 롤랜드까지 자원해 전쟁터로 향한다. 베라는 그들 가까이에서 힘이 돼주기 위해 옥스포드를 포기하고 간호사로 자원하게 되고 그곳에서 수많은 젊은 청춘들의 죽음을 목격하며 전쟁의 실상과 마주하게 되는데…
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Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.
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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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A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.
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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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This groundbreaking film combines hard-hitting documentary with the emotional power of music, to illuminate the lives of real people caught up in conflict. At its heart are stories of ordinary people - a boy, a soldier and a mother.
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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.
