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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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Recém-chegada em Hamburgo, Rachel Morgan é afetada de imediato pelo clima sombrio que a cidade conserva depois de ter sido inteiramente destruída durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Seu marido, o coronel britânico Lewis , foi encarregado de coordenar a reconstrução da região por tempo indeterminado. Em uma decisão unilateral, Lewis estabelece que o casal ficará hospedado na casa de um viúvo alemão, provocando sentimentos conflituosos em sua esposa.
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Vera Brittain, uma jovem mulher na Grã-Bretanha em 1914, conta como toda a sua geração foi consumida e irrevogavelmente alterada pela chegada da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
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Vida Winter é uma renomada escritora já de idade avançada. Quando ela contrata uma jovem escritora para contar a história de sua vida, ela se vê obrigada a adentrar os mistérios que envolveram sua infância, enquanto ela vivia na Casa Angelfield.
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Chopin Saved my Life explora o incrível poder transformador da Balada n° 1 de Chopin, uma obra musical que enfeitiçou a milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo. Dura menos de dez minutos e é muito difícil de interpretar, exige proezas extraordinárias de controle, velocidade, memória, potência e destreza. Neste emocionante documentário, duas pessoas, de lados opostos do mundo falam do efeito da obra em suas vidas. O adolescente japonês Momoka, que ainda tenta superar o trauma do terremoto que atingiu sua comunidade, encontra na música a saída perfeita para liberar a angustia que esconde em seu interior. Para o estudante de música escocesa Paul, que está se recuperando de sua quinta cirurgia no cérebro, a Balada literalmente mudou sua vida. Para ele, o regresso de sua memória é devido a atração emocional da obra. Também participam do documentário quatro dos maiores pianistas vivos da atualidade: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, Imogen Cooper e Stephen Hough.
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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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No século XIX, em Yorkshire, na Inglaterra rural, uma rica órfã, Anne Lister, vive com uma tia e um tio, ansiosos para que ela se case bem e alegremente inconscientes de que ela é lésbica. Seus pensamentos e façanhas ficaram registrados em um diário codificado.
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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.
