Christopher Eccleston

Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets unexpected support along the way.

Robbo is a remarkable feature film that tells the story of one of England and Manchester United’s greatest ever midfielders. From a working class kid in the North East of England to a national treasure honoured by the Queen, this new film gives a previously unseen insight into the man they call ‘Captain Marvel’.

Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was also a labour activist and actor. This affectionate documentary offers insights into all these aspects of his life and features new versions of some of his songs, including The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Contributors include Billy Bragg and his widow, Peggy Seeger.

Acclaimed auteur Percy Manthey's re-edit and re-colourisation of Tom Lister's 2020 action film The Unethicals.

Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers.

Endless features the actor Christopher Eccleston in the role of a solitary, unnamed man, dressed in the plainest of plain clothes, encountered in the most basic of architectural environments, an empty building with bare brick walls and bare board floors.

Rhys Thomas reviews 2019 in his usual inimitable way

É 1918 e chega ao fim a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Milhões morreram e o mundo está exausto pela guerra. Mas logo um novo horror estará varrendo o mundo, um vírus aterrorizante que matará mais de cinquenta milhões de pessoas - a gripe espanhola. Usando reconstrução dramática e testemunho ocular de médicos, soldados, civis e políticos, este especial traz à vida o ataque da doença, os horrores daqueles que a viveram e os esforços dos cientistas pioneiros que procuraram desesperadamente a cura. Narrado por Christopher Eccleston, o filme também pergunta se, um século depois, as lições aprendidas em 1918 podem nos ajudar a combater uma futura pandemia global de gripe.

Leyna (Amandla Stenberg) é uma adolescente filha de uma mãe branca alemã e um pai negro. Morando na Alemanha em 1944, ela vive em constante medo por conta da cor de sua pele. Quando ela conhece Lutz (George MacKay), o filho de um oficial da SS e membro da Juventude Hitlerista, os dois acabam se apaixonando, colocando suas vidas em risco.

William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.

Adaptação moderna da peça de William Shakespeare, em que um idoso rei (Anthony Hopkins) precisa decidir como o reino ficará dividido entre suas três filhas: Goneril (Emma Thompson), Regan (Emily Watson) e Cordelia (Florence Pugh).

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the company.

A documentary on the events when a bomb went off at the Ariana Grande concert.

Os gêmeos Ronald Kray e Reginald Kray foram gangsters que aterrorizavam Londres na década de 60. Por trás de inúmeros assaltos à mão armada, ataques e assassinatos, eles ainda eram donos de uma das casas noturnas mais famosas da cidade. Mas os dois tinham um conturbado relacionamento enquanto Reginald buscava tentar controlar as tendências psicóticas de seu irmão.

HBO-created featurette on the origins of the Leftovers television series.

Could King Richard III's spinal deformity have prevented him from leading the charge at the Battle of Bosworth? Modern scoliosis sufferer Dominic Smee and a team of scientists and medieval warfare experts embark on an extraordinary journey to reveal new research that's changing our knowledge of a defamed medieval king.

Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.

Clara e o Doutor continuam presos na linha do tempo do Doutor, e a única saída é abrir a porta para os dias mais escuros do Doutor, 'A Guerra do Tempo'. Segredos, mentiras e memórias que já estavam muito tempo enterradas serão reveladas.

Timeshift explores the lost world of coal mining and the extraordinarily rich social and cultural lives of those who worked in what was once Britain's most important industry. It's a story told through a largely forgotten film archive that movingly documents the final years of coal's heyday from the 1940s to the 1980s. One priceless piece of footage features a ballet performance by tutu-wearing colliers. Featuring contributions from those who worked underground, those who lived in the pit villages, those who filmed them at work and at play and those - like Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall - who have been inspired by what made coalfield culture so unique.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.

Thor precisa contar com a ajuda de seus companheiros e até de seu traiçoeiro irmão Loki em um plano audacioso para salvar o universo. Entretanto, os caminhos de Thor se cruzam com Jane Foster e, dessa vez, a vida dela está realmente em perigo.

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!

The film puts two English characters within the framework of a stereotypically French film, deconstructing a common sexual fantasy to explore the moment two strangers meet and attempt to fill their loneliness with each others' need.

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political thriller.

Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the sight of bulky men in latex and the most masculine man in the country was called Shirley. In its heyday, British professional wrestling attracted huge TV audiences and made household names of generations of wrestlers from Mick McManus and Jackie 'Mr TV' Pallo to Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy. With contributions from inside the world of wrestling and surprising fans such as artist Peter Blake, this is an affectionate and lively portrait of a lost era of simpler pleasures, both in and out of the ring.

Arthur, morador de uma pensão para idosos, nunca gostou de cantar, mas quando sua esposa fica doente, ele decide honrar uma das suas atividades favoritas: participar de um coral. Logo, ele descobre as técnicas pouco convencionais da diretora do coral, e se aproxima novamente de seu filho, James.

Uma família de Pequeninos vive em uma casa de pessoas com estatura normal, pegando emprestado tudo o que eles precisam para sobreviver.

A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

Karen is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman. Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He claims that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill her long forgotten dreams and ambitions.

Amelia Earhart foi a primeira mulher a completar a travessia do oceano Atlântico pilotando um avião. Este feito fez com que se tornasse uma celebridade nos Estados Unidos, onde passou a ser chamada de "deusa da luz" devido a sua ousadia e carisma. Seu fascínio pelo perigo inspirou até mesmo a primeira dama Eleanor Roosevelt. Casada com George Putnam, um magnata do mercado editorial, e tendo o piloto Gene Vidal como seu grande amigo, Amelia decide, em 1937, embarcar na mais arrojada de suas missões: dar a volta ao mundo em um voo solo.

Quando tudo parece falhar... Eles não falham! Eles são a equipe G.I. Joe, uma força de elite supersecreta com os melhores agentes de todo o mundo. Depois que uma arma secreta de alta tecnologia é roubada pela misteriosa e diabólica organização Cobra, os G. I. Joes correm contra o tempo para impedir Cobra de usar a arma e mergulhar o mundo no caos.

One year after Hurricane Katrina, troubles arise for a surgeon who, despite remarrying his ex-wife and starting his life anew, becomes reacquainted with an former girlfriend.

Will Stanton descobre ser o último herdeiro de uma linhagem de guerreiros imortais que dedicam suas vidas a lutar contra as forças do mal. Will se depara com forças inimagináveis e percebe que a escuridão está crescendo. Ele terá de lutar e salvar o mundo desses poderes malignos.

After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for Catholic families is de facto exclusivity, given the waiting list. So they pose as devout, and get his murky mate Eddie to find them a priest they can 'bribe' for a parish reference, while Lucy is genuinely converted. It works, but when Stuart overhears a dark secret things take a tragic turn.

A review of the most memorable Muppet moments to commemorate Kermit the Frog's 50th anniversary.

Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, "The Edge of Destruction". It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.

Em 1905, um jovem e obscuro funcionário de um escritório suíço de patentes concluiu que massa e energia são inseparáveis na Natureza. Essa ideia ainda viria a mudar completamente a forma como vemos o Universo. O seu jovem formulador, Albert Einstein, seria aclamado como o mais famoso nome da física moderna. Nada escapou à detalhada reconstituição histórica nesta produção NOVA/PBS.Ela permitirá ao espectador compreender a equação de Einstein (E=mc2) e, paralelamente, revelará a trajetória de outros grandes nomes da ciência que de alguma forma contribuíram para sua obra, como Michael Faraday, Antoine Lavoisier e Lise Meitner. As histórias desses gênios inovadores, com suas parcelas de sucesso e fracasso, amor e rivalidade, política e vingança, constituem uma verdadeira saga, que influenciou Einstein desde muito jovem.

Rose Tyler stumbles across a man called The Doctor as he seeks out the Nestene Consciousness, to prevent the living plastic it is controlling from taking over the world.

Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and deliciously melancholic bard.

Um poderoso vírus está a solta. Transmitido em uma gota de sangue e com efeito devastador em alguns segundos, o vírus mantém os infectados em um estado permanente de descontrole assassino. Dentro de 28 dias, o país está tomado e um punhado de sobreviventes inicia esforços para garantir algum futuro à raça humana, mas o que não percebem é que o vírus mortal não é única coisa que os ameaça.

A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists.

A look at the personal life of the Arsenal and England player

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true love.

It's April 1974 and Manchester United are facing the prospect of relegation. Anthony never misses a match and it's the crucial last match of the season. Anthony's wife, Jenny, is pregnant but the baby is not due for another couple of weeks. At least, that's what they think.

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

Um retrato crítico sobre o cenário musical da década de 1980, visto através do olhar de Tony Wilson - um apresentador de TV recém-formado em Cambridge, que inspirado pelo primeiro show dos Sex Pistols em Manchester, funda a hoje mundialmente famosa, Factory Records e a Danceteria Haçienda. As bandas contratadas por ele incluíram Joy Division e The Happy Mondays, enquanto a Haçienda transformou Manchester. Tudo construído sob a filosofia comercial anárquica de Wilson - nada de contrato, só paixão, música e hedonismo - se a banda não gostar, está livre para partir. Ninguém vai embora , mas com dívidas e as ressacas pertubando os cérebros, tudo acaba ficando descontrolado. O comediante Steve Coogan interpreta Wilson em sua luta para manter-se de pé em um mundo de gênios viciados e angustiados. A trilha sonora inclui sucessos dos grupos The Happy Mondays, New Order e Joy Division.

Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened

With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near future, a crime-ridden metropolis virtually torn apart by racial hostilities. By order of the Prime Minister, black police officer John Othello (Eamonn Walker) is promoted to Commissioner, a post dearly coveted by Othello's friend, mentor and fellow officer Ben Jago (Christopher Eccleston). Seething with jealousy, Jago contrives to discredit Othello in the eyes of the public, and to destroy John's interracial marriage to the lily-white Dessie (Keeley Hawes). Among those used as unwitting dupes to gain Jago's ends are Othello's trusted lieutenant, Michael Cass (Richard Coyle), scrupulously honest police constable Alan Roderick (Del Synnott), and Jago's own wife, Lulu (Rachael Stirling).

Grace Stewart vive em uma casa velha com seus dois filhos e os criados. Uma condição rara das crianças, que são fotossensíveis, faz com que eles vivam na escuridão, algo que complica a rotina diária de todos. Acontece que coisas esquisitas têm acontecido na casa e Grace começa a suspeitar que sua casa é assombrada.

Strayman, a spontaneous poet, is landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist another of life's strays, he hooks up with Strumpet, a shy, homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music. After Strayman's neighbour overhears them singing, the three set off for London - Strayman's dogs in tow - in search of fame, fortune, and Top Of The Pops.

O ano é 1977. Phoebe O'Connor (Jordana Brewster) vive com sua mãe, Gail (Blythe Danner). Ela acaba de se formar no colegial e está pronta para ingressar na faculdade, mas sente cada vez mais uma obsessão pela figura de sua irmã, Faith (Cameron Diaz), que se suicidou em Portugal seis anos antes. As circunstâncias da morte de Faith sempre estiveram envoltas em mistério e Phoebe resolve partir para a Europa a fim de descobrir o que realmente aconteceu com a irmã, munida apenas dos cartões-postais os quais Faith enviava para sua família durante sua estada na Europa.

Randall "Memphis" Raines abandonou a vida criminosa há tempos, mas a visita de um amigo o força a retornar à atividade. Para salvar a vida do irmão, ele não tem outra saída senão fazer o que faz de melhor: roubar carros. É apenas uma noite, 50 carros e um contrato.

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?

The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film. In September 1995, five men were sacked for walking off the job when their overtime agreement was ditched. Dockers: Writing The Wrongs tells how the dockers spent a year producing the script based on their own experiences of the dramatic two and a half year dispute.

Um criador de videogames precisa buscar refúgio em sua própria realidade virtual ao sobreviver a uma tentativa de assassinato. Os limites entre a realidade e o mundo virtual ficam cada vez menos claros quando o criador e seus aliados são envolvidos em um jogo perigoso.

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

Em 1554, a Inglaterra estava divida entre católicos e protestantes e era governada por Mary Tudor (Kathy Burke), católica, mas devido a um tumor ela acaba falecendo. Agora sua meia-irmã Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett), protestante, assume o poder. Porém, Elizabeth herda um país falido, sem exército e com inimigos por todos os lados, até mesmo na sua própria corte, forçando-a tomar cuidado a cada passo para permanecer no poder.

Sonia é uma jovem mulher de uma comunidade de judeus ortodoxos de Nova York. Casada e com um primeiro filho, ela se sente sufocada e começa a ter dúvidas em relação a várias regras de sua religião. Frustrada com seu casamento, ela tem um caso com seu cunhado, que lhe oferece a oportunidade de cuidar de uma joalheria que tem no bairro. Ela mostra competência, mas sua oposição às regras incomoda a todos em sua família. Quando se torna amiga de um artista de origem latina, ela perde o emprego e é proibida de ver seu filho.

Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.

O jovem Jude sonha em estudar, mas se vê obrigado a casar com a filha de um fazendeiro. O relacionamento chega ao fim e ele decide ir para a cidade grande, onde conhece sua linda prima Sue e se apaixona. O problema é que sua amada já é casada.

Alex (Ewan McGregor), David (Christopher Eccleston) e Juliet (Kerry Fox), que dividem um apartamento, concordam em permitir que Hugo (Keith Allen), um desconhecido, vá morar com eles, mas logo ele aparece morto, vítima de overdose. Entre seus pertences existe uma mala cheia de dinheiro, que faz com que a vida deles seja alterada de forma brutal.

Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Fantasy drama Rachel's Dream was set sometime in the future when the world is besieged by technology, young Rachel discovers that through a large bank of video screens in her sister's apartment, her wishes can come true when she brings to life the image on an anti-pollution poster. This new friend helps her to make up her mind about her own future.

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

The story of the record-making swimmer's successful 1926 crossing of the English Channel, offering insight into the significance of her accomplishment, the personal price she paid for her achievement, and her abrupt subsequent departure from the public eye.