Ambrose
Set in a geriatric ward within a small hospital, when news of its closure begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.
David
Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.
Self
Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune to the islands of Bahrain.
Self
A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet Charity.
Himself (archive footage)
Father Enoch
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.
Mr. Brown
Antes do País das Maravilhas e da Terra do Nunca, Peter e Alice eram irmãos. Quando uma tragédia toma conta da família, eles embarcam em uma aventura fantástica e descobrirão que as jornadas mais incríveis começam em casa.
Dr. Hobson
Uma oportunidade de oportunidade surge para Robert Atkinson, um banqueiro de Londres que arrisca o dinheiro de seu banco para deixar o mundano para trás e começar uma nova vida. Para aproveitar, ele involuntariamente se inscreve em um cartel chinês para transportar uma maleta para Amsterdã. Mas nem tudo é o que parece em uma cidade velada por segredos sombrios. Alimentado por jogadores poderosos, drogas, sedução e violência, Robert aguarda sua vez em um jogo mortal de escolha e conseqüência.
Lord Palmerston
The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
The Lawyer
Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by all. He is the ultimate showman however, his fortune and fame have left him agoraphobic and crippled by depression. He hasn't left his house in five years, he's a virtual recluse who battles daily with his demon. When a chance encounter brings Luca back from the edge, the question is, can he stay there.
Claudius
Nesta divertida sátira da História, um adolescente da Roma antiga cai em desgraça com o imperador Nero e é enviado à Grã-Bretanha, onde faz uma amiga Celta. Quando os romanos invadem a região, os dois acabam em lados opostos do campo de batalha.
Professor Joseph Wright
O filme acompanha o autor J.R.R. Tolkien nos tempos de juventude, quando o órfão encontra amizade, amor e inspiração artística ao se juntar a um grupo de deslocados. Mas tudo muda quando ele é convocado para a Primeira Guerra Mundial, cujo caos ajuda na criação da Terra Média.
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to actual sites De Vere visited in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, and argues that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.
Mr. Yaffe
Lara Croft é a independente filha de um aventureiro excêntrico que desapareceu há sete anos. Com a esperança de resolver o mistério do desaparecimento de seu pai, Lara embarca em uma perigosa jornada para seu último destino conhecido: Um túmulo lendário em uma ilha mítica que pode estar em algum lugar ao largo da costa do Japão. As apostas não podiam ser maiores, pois Lara deve confiar em sua mente aguçada, fé cega e teimosia para se aventurar no desconhecido.
Scrooge/Himself
Peter Pan Goes Wrong: The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to the small screen. As part of a commitment to community theatre, The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, has been commissioned to recreate the JM Barrie classic as part of the festive season programming. But can they pull it off? Christmas Carol Goes Wrong: The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre Company return to the small screen with their take on Dickens's famous festive fable. As the Cornley gang try to make the show work on television, they soon realise they are completely out of their depth, with no idea how to direct a live studio or handle the special effects. Worse still, their internal rivalries are revealed on television, while an angry professional cast tries to get back into the studio.
Scrooge
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay.
Edward Masterman
Várias pessoas estão fazendo uma viagem longa em um luxuoso trem. A paz, entretanto, é perturbada por um acontecimento sinistro: um terrível assassinato. À bordo da composição está ninguém menos que o mundialmente reconhecido detetive Hercule Poirot que se voluntaria para iniciar uma varredura no local, ouvindo testemunhas e possíveis suspeitos para descobrir o que de fato aconteceu.
THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND CELEBRATED ITS EPIC TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN 2017. Over 4,000 Freemasons from Provinces and Districts were joined by representatives from over 130 sovereign Grand Lodges from around the world to mark 300 years since the founding of the world’s first Grand Lodge for Freemasons. The audience witnessed a theatrical extravaganza which embraced the rich history and heritage of Freemasonry and featured a cast of renowned actors including Sir Derek Jacobi, Samantha Bond and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Ross
John Stratton (Dominic Cooper) é um agente secreto das forças especiais britânica. Ele usa suas habilidades para uma missão, cujo objetivo é pôr fim a uma organização terrorista, que atua na Ásia e possui ramificações na Europa.
Léo Gursky
Um livro perdido reaparece na Nova Iorque atual para ligar a vida de um velho imigrante judeu, que ainda sofre a perda do amor de sua vida e uma jovem que descobre o amor pela primeira vez.
Mercutio
Apresentação teatral ao vivo da clássica peça de Shakespeare sobre dois adolescentes de famílias rivais cujo romance termina em tragédia
Narrator
A BBC Earth documentary inside the world of the most venomous creatures on Earth, with stories from survivors of deadly venom attacks from animals coupled with 3D graphic technology that showcases the effects of venom on the human body.
King
Após a trágica e inesperada morte do seu pai, Ella (Lily James) fica à mercê da sua terrível madrasta, Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett), e suas filhas Anastasia e Drisella. A jovem ganha o apelido de Cinderela e é obrigada a trabalhar como empregada na sua própria casa, mas continua otimista com a vida. Passeando na floresta, ela se encanta por um corajoso estranho (Richard Madden), sem desconfiar que ele é o príncipe do castelo. Cinderela recebe um convite para o grande baile e acredita que pode voltar a encontrar sua alma gêmea, mas seus planos vão por água abaixo quando a madrasta má rasga seu vestido. Agora, será preciso uma fada madrinha (Helena Bonham Carter) para mudar o seu destino.
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
O casamento de Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman) e o príncipe Rainier III (Tim Roth) foi considerado um conto de fadas na vida real quando aconteceu, em 1956. Entretanto, cinco anos mais tarde e com dois filhos, a verdade é que Grace está insatisfeita com a vida no palácio e o distanciamento do marido. A chance de novamente sentir-se útil surge quando seu velho amigo, o diretor Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), a convida para retornar ao cinema como protagonista de seu próximo filme: "Marnie - Confissões de uma Ladra". O problema é que Rainier é terminantemente contra e, ainda por cima, está envolvido com uma ameaça vinda do presidente francês Charles de Gaule (André Penvern): caso Mônaco não pague impostos à França e acabe com o paraíso fiscal existente, o principado será invadido em seis meses. Em meio às inevitáveis tensões, Grace e Rainier buscam resolver seus problemas tentando evitar que eles causem o divórcio.
Travers Twiss
Uma história de arte, sexo e intriga. O triângulo amoroso entre o crítico de arte John Ruskin (Greg Wise), sua mulher adolescente Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning) e o artista pré-rafaelita John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge) foi um escândalo sexual, que abalou a sociedade inglesa do século XIX.
Claudius/Spooner
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.
Self
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!
Narrator (voice)
The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Himself
It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author and discovers a forgotten nobleman whose story could rewrite history.
Narrator
Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.
The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of real-life inmates to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.
Sir Owen Morshead
A musa Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) está em Londres pela primeira vez para filmar “O Príncipe Encantado” ao lado de Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). A história adapta o livro homônimo de Colin Clark, que na época trabalhava como assistente nas filmagens. Durante uma semana, ele teve a oportunidade de ciceronear a diva - desesperada para escapar das pressões da rotina hollywoodiana - e mostrar-lhe o melhor da vida britânica.
Prologue
Cultuado como um dos maiores dramaturgos da Era Elisabetana, a vida de William Shakespeare tem sido objeto de estudos de acadêmicos há anos. Uma popular teoria especula que as peças teatrais atribuídas ao dramaturgo não foram escritas por ele.
Narrator (voice)
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film represents the first to be made by the internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States. While not a stop-motion animation film, a form for which the Quays are best known, the entire film is vibrantly constructed and 'animated'. Musical score by composer Tim Nelson and voice-over provided by Derek Jacobi.
Honorio
Um candidato à canonização, que sofreu com as mazelas da Guerra Civil na Espanha, é investigado por um jornalista e escritor (Dougray Scott) que acaba descobrindo uma ligação forte e obscura entre seu pai e o possível santo. O longa conta a história de vida de Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox), padre espanhol que foi o principal fundador da instituição católica Opus Dei.
Cornhill
Sangue e Honra leva diretamente a um dos momentos mais violentos e cruciais da Inglaterra do século 13. Quando alguns homens de bem revoltaram-se contra as injustiças do seu rei ambicioso, tornaram a devastadora batalha pelo castelo de Rochester em uma verdadeira lição de honra, ação e emoção. Esses heróis foram apagados das páginas da história…Até agora...
King Lear
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
O Príncipe Albert da Inglaterra deve ascender ao trono como Rei George VI, mas ele tem um problema de fala. Sabendo que o país precisa que seu marido seja capaz de se comunicar perfeitamente, Elizabeth contrata Lionel Logue, um ator australiano e fonoaudiólogo, para ajudar o Príncipe a superar a gagueira. Uma extraordinária amizade desenvolve-se entre os dois homens, e Logue usa meios não convencionais para ensinar o monarca a falar com segurança.
Derek Jacobi
Três pessoas são tocadas pela morte de maneiras diferentes. George (Matt Damon) é um americano que desde pequeno consegue manter contato com a vida fora da matéria, mas considera o seu dom uma maldição e tenta levar uma vida normal. Marie (Cécile De France) é jornalista, francesa, e passou por uma experiência de quase morte durante um tsunami. Em Londres, o menino Marcus (Frankie McLaren/George McLaren) perde alguém muito ligado a ele e parte em busca desesperada por respostas. Enquanto cada um segue sua vida, o caminho deles irá se cruzar, podendo mundar para sempre as suas crenças.
Mr. Simpson
Um dos maiores mafiosos de Boston misteriosamente desaparece, e o horror se instala nas ruas. Com o mundo do crime sem uma liderança forte, perigosos assassinos e policiais corruptos agem deliberadamente na cidade. Enquanto isso, Madso, líder de uma imponente gangue local, vai lutar contra o tempo para encontrar um tesouro escondido pelo mafioso.
Fred Ashton
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
Himself - Presenter
The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.
Piers Denmont
No glamuroso mundo da compra e venda de diamantes, se esconde uma realidade cruel. A senadora Joan Cameron buscará a verdade que levou sua filha à morte, graças à industria do diamante.
Rudolph Agnew
A África do Sul em tempos de regime do apartheid é invadida por diversas manifestações públicas que levam a uma onda de violência. Fica claro que uma guerra civil está prestes a irromper entre uma minoria branca governante do sistema e uma maioria negra. No meio disso, há o interesse de inúmeras companhias estrangeiras, especialmente da inglesa Consolidated Gold. O presidente da empresa decide enviar em segredo seu relações públicas para espionar as conversas entre os rebeldes e os representantes brancos. Esse RP é Michael Young (Johny Lee Miller) que além de colocar sua integridade física e moral em risco, também envolve a todos numa trama de intrigas e mentiras.
Quentin Neely
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
Nigel Dewberry
Burt Reynolds stars as Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production.
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney earns his living as a pickpocket and a conman - his chosen modus operandi is to gatecrash Shiva houses of mourning to steal from the gathered crowd.
Narrator
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of Naples before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The bay was then the most fashionable destination for vacationing Romans. Julius Caesar, emperors, and senators were among those who owned sumptuous villas along its shores. Artists flocked to the region to create frescoes, sculpture, and luxurious objects in gold, silver, and glass for villa owners as well as residents of Pompeii and other towns in the shadow of Vesuvius. The film concludes with the story of the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum from the 18th century onward.
Dr. Nathan Gross
A história de Adam Stein, um homem que viveu o drama de ser judeu na Alemanha nazista e sobreviveu aos traumas dos campos de concentração. Sua mente ficou afetada e agora está internado em um hospital psiquiátrico, no qual tentam reconduzí-lo a uma existência o mais normal possível para quem viveu os horrores do Holocausto. Mas Adam não é um homem comum nem um doente comum. Ele é muito inteligente para confundir os seus médicos e perceber o que está além da realidade.
Howard Whittam
We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.
Grandfather
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Magisterial Emissary
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) é uma órfã que foi criada na Universidade Oxford. No mundo em que vive todas as pessoas têm um "daemon", ou seja, uma manifestação de sua própria alma em forma animal. Lyra leva uma vida tranqüila até ela e seu daemon, Pantalaimon, descobrirem a existência de uma substância misteriosa chamada "pó". Isto provoca um estranho efeito nas crianças, o que faz com que as autoridades religiosas se convençam de que representa o mal. Seguindo o misterioso Lorde Asriel (Daniel Craig), seu protetor, Lyra parte em busca de uma resposta. Em Londres ela descobre que diversas crianças estão desaparecendo, entre elas Roger (Ben Walker), seu melhor amigo. Com a ajuda de um instrumento ancestral, que se parece com uma bússola de ouro, ela parte numa jornada que pode alterar o mundo para sempre.
Guido
After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They'll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local Cuban, takes Ali to the apartment of his sister Manuela, a dancer in Havana. At first, she is apprehensive to take in this tormented stranger, but she relents as she feels drawn to this mysterious person who has shown up on her door step. Ali is haunted by nightmares, which bring him to the horror of the interrogation room at Guantanamo, and by startling visions linking his past and his present life. But are these nightmares flash backs to his experiences in the prison or just dreams of a tortured soul?
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
President
Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.
Balzer
A talented young violinist enrols at an isolated music school. But when he begins having visions of the other students dead, he realises there is a sinister side to the community and the master violinist himself.
Derek Jacobi
This film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely with Bacon’s own words, recorded by Derek Jacobi. The artist’s biography is outlined, but the focus is on his ideas: his thoughts about his work, his reflections about how and why he paints. The result is a rigorous and revealing portrait of one of the few artists who has truly changed the way we see and understand ourselves.
Narrator
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy is a British family television film following the life of a border collie puppy as she grows up to become a working Herding dog. Part fiction, part documentary, it was filmed by real-life shepherd David Kennard on his farm in Devon. It features his seven working dogs - the puppy Mist, her gentle mother Gail, grandfather 'Sir' Gregory, eccentric, bubbly, hyper uncle Jake, sour and negative great-auntie Fern, gruff, tough cousin Ernie and wise auntie Swift. [Wikipedia]
Senator Augusto Pinochet
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
Alexander Corvinus
Após o final do primeiro filme, a união de Selene a vampira e seu namorado Michael o vampiro-lobisomen terá de ser mais forte que o amor. Os dois terão de enfrentar uma legião de vampiros e lobisomen, e a evolução das espécies. Além disso, o centenário vampiro Marcus desperta de seu sono, pronto para matá-los.
Mr. Wheen
O viúvo Sr. Brown e sua tia não conseguem controlar seus filhos até que a mágica Nanny McPhee chega para ficar.
Lord Dempsey
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.
Nezo (voice)
Num mundo alternativo de marionetes, todas estão ligadas a um poder maior pelos fios que as puxam. Quando um rei culpado se suicida, seu iludido filho se disfarça e parte numa missão de vingança, descobrindo os segredos obscuros do seu próprio povo.
Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Himself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent.
Mr. Operatski (voice)
It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly Whiskers. She is devastated when Penelope Pinkpaws (Jonell Elliott) is chosen to play Cinderella and she is cast as the Wicked Stepmouse. Taking Miss Lilly's (Dame Judi Dench's) advice to "think horrid" much too literally, Angelina storms off in a fit of a temper. Then a toboggan race goes wrong and it seems that the production will have to be cancelled. Realizing how selfish she has been, Angelina determines to sort things out, because as every aspiring star knows, "The Show Must Go On".
Self
The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
The Duke
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.
Himself
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.
Stanley Baldwin
No ínicio dos anos 30 um homem , um político e orador excepcional de nome Winston Churchill salta para a ribalta da fama pela sua luta em torno do crescimento e fortalecimento de uma Europa desunida na época. Lutando contra todas as adversidades - uma depressão profunda, a perca de toda a sua fortuna pessoal e o temporário desaparecimento da sua mulher Clemmie - um solitário mas desafiador Churchill tenta de todas as formas avisar o mundo de uma tentativa de poder pela força por um político Austríaco emergente chamado Adolf Hitler.
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
Maj. Merton
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Probert
Na década de 1930, Sir William McCordle e família recebem ricos e famosos para um relaxante fim de semana em uma suntuosa casa de campo. Mas um assassinato ocorre na propriedade, e todos os convidados e serventes viram suspeitos do crime.
Father Lavelle
Durante uma expedição, uma arqueologista, encontra um corpo crucificado, cujo exames apontam que ele é do primeiro século antes de Cristo. Ao saber do corpo, o Vaticano envia um padre, que tem por missão investigar se o corpo encontrado seria de Jesus Cristo, que viveu exatamente nesta época. A ameaça de que as suspeitas estejam corretas desestabiliza a Igreja Católica, que pode ter sua credibilidade de séculos arruinada, já que como Cristo ressuscitou não pode haver um corpo seu na Terra.
Librarian
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ancient treasure.
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Squire Fairfield
Alice, uma jovem orfã, é levada para viver na Mansão Wyvern. Ela cresce sob os cuidados de Squire e se apaixona por um de seus dois filhos. Como Squire não aceita esse romance, Alice e Charles fogem para se casar, porém terão que enfrentar a ira do vilão e de seu outro filho, o diabólico Harry. Além disso, ela sofre com visões terríveis.
Voice
Imagining the unimaginable through the eyes of Wilfred Owen, combining reconstructions of Owen’s war experiences with animation and readings from his poems and letters.
Gracchus
Nos dias finais do reinado de Marcus Aurelius, o imperador desperta a ira de seu filho Commodus ao tornar pública sua predileção em deixar o trono para Maximus, o comandante do exército romano. Sedento pelo poder, Commodus mata seu pai, assume a coroa e ordena a morte de Maximus, que consegue fugir antes de ser pego e passa a se esconder sob a identidade de um escravo e gladiador do Império Romano.
Lucky Leadbetter
Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.
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A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
Father Leonor Fousnel
Baseado em uma história verdadeira, o filme acompanha um padre que, no século 19, se voluntariou para ir até a ilha de Molokai para cuidar dos que foram acometidos por um surto de lepra.
Francis Bacon
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Father Frederick
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
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Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found.
King Claudius
Hamlet é o príncipe da Dinamarca que deseja vingar o assassinato de seu pai e ocupar seu lugar como rei. Mas não será fácil, pois terá que brigar com sua própria família para recuperar o que lhe pertence.
Randal
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-activated for duty and is given orders to infiltrate the organization responsible for his family's murder.
Self / Interview
A profunda reflexão de Al Pacino sobre o significado e a relevância de Shakespeare para o mundo moderno através de entrevistas e uma análise aprofundada de "Richard III".
Alan Turing
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
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With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.
Archibald Craven (voice)
A orfã Mary Lennox vai morar com seu tio, Lorde Craven, na Inglaterra; A mansão é administrada pela Sra. Medlock, uma rigorosa e fria governanta. Lorde Craven perdeu a mulher há dez anos e nunca mais conseguiu superar a tragédia. Para piorar Colin Craven, seu filho, também sofre de extrema apatia, sempre recolhido no seu quarto.
Mais uma vez negligenciada, Mary passa a explorar a propriedade e descobre um jardim abandonado. Entusiasmada com a descoberta, Mary decide restaurar o lugar com a ajuda do filho de um dos serviçais da casa, conquistando assim a atenção do primo doente. Juntos eles desafiam as regras da casa e o velho jardim se transforma em um lugar mágico, cheio de flores, surpresas e alegria. O jardim secreto é um lugar fantástico onde não existe tristeza e arrependimento, um lugar onde a força da amizade pode trazer de volta a beleza da vida.
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, it is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
The Magician (voice)
A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.
Franklyn Madson
Mike Church é um detetive de LA, com talento para piadas e para achar pessoas desaparecidas. Mas Church não tem pista nenhuma quando é contratado para ajudar uma bela vítima com amnésia, atormentada por pesadelos apavorantes. É então que um excêntrico antiquário e hipnotizador leva Church a uma surpreendente descoberta: a origem dos pesadelos é uma conexão com a vida passada de Margaret Strauss, uma famosa pianista supostamente assassinada por seu marido compositor… em 1948. Na clássica tradição de Quando Fala o Coração e Rebecca, Voltar a Morrer “traz de volta um excitante tipo de filme” (Tom Jacobs, Los Angeles Daily News). Coestrelado por Andy Garcia.
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Himself
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein follow the company through four weeks of rehearsals, from the first read-throughs to opening night.
Chorus
O Rei Henrique V da Inglaterra é insultado pelo Rei da França. Por consequência, ele lidera seu exército contra os franceses, o que faz com que ele tenha que estar em constante atenção para deixar suas tropas motivadas e unidas.
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For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institution. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews with David Broder, Alistair Cooke, Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell and others, the award-winning film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of Congress and, in turn, our country.
Hordedef (voice)
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
The Imposter
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.
Arthur Clennam
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
Archibald Craven
A pirralha mimada Mary Lennox (Gennie James) ficou órfã na Índia vitoriana e foi enviada para viver na Inglaterra na mansão sombria de seu tio Archibald Craven (Sir Derek Jacobi). Depois de descobrir os muitos segredos que se escondem na casa, ela floresce novamente, assim como todos ao seu redor.
Pierre (voice)
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of America’s premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself. Featuring rare archival photographs, paintings and drawings, readings from actual diaries, letters and newspapers of the day, the fascinating story of this universally admired monument is told. In interviews with Americans from all walks of life, including former New York governor Mario Cuomo, the late congresswoman Barbara Jordan and the late writers James Baldwin and Jerzy Kosinski, The Statue of Liberty examines the nature of liberty and the significance of the statue to American life. Nominated for both the Academy Award ® and the Emmy Award ®, The Statue of Liberty received the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle, the Christopher Award and the Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival.
Cyrano de Bergerac
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
Kurt Limmer
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Nicodemus (voice)
Para salvar seu filho doente, uma corajosa ratinha percorre uma longa jornada em busca de conseguir mover a sua casa de lugar de maneira segura. Enquanto procura curar seu filho, ela se depara com amuletos mágicos, animais perigosos e grandes amigos que prometem ajudá-la no misterioso percurso de uma floresta mágica que muda sua vida para sempre.
The Stranger
An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the town with his jovial behaviour and magical tricks. He is known as Sir Columbus. However, when he calls upon prominent citizen Mr. Latham, he is neither jovial or eccentric, he is out for revenge.
Adolf Hitler
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Dom Claude Frollo
O filme é uma adaptação do clássico de Victor Hugo e conta a história do deformado Quasimodo, que se apaixona pela cigana Esmeralda. Infelizmente, o pai rigoroso de Quasimodo, Dom Claude Frollo, também se encanta com Esmeralda, resultando em um conflito. Porém a presença do belo soldado Phoebus, complica a situação.
Daberlohn
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Martin Beck
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him. He is knocked down on the street and is later carried home by a friend. The next day he is to fly to Budapest in order to make a report for the Stockholm television. Mattson disappears in Budapest.
Hamlet
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Arthur Davis
A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.
King Richard II
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
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Suspense psicológico sobre um romancista telecinético que causa desastres simplesmente pensando neles.
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Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. (narration replaced by Derek Jacobi, in a later release titled "Castles of Clay")
Guy Burgess
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Gregory
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.
Klaus Wenzer
22 de novembro de 1963: o presidente John F. Kennedy é assassinado. O repórter alemão Peter Miller descobre que uma ambulância levava o corpo de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, cujo diário trazia detalhes assombrosos dos campos de concentração. Esse diário conduz Miller na trilha da organização secreta ODESSA.
Inspector Caron
Um assassino profissional conhecido pelo codinome "Chacal" é contratado para matar Charles de Gaulle, presidente da França. É o início dos anos 60 na França. Os sobreviventes restantes da extinta Legião Estrangeira Francesa, agora numa organização terrorista, a OAS, fizeram repetidas tentativas de matar o presidente francês Charles De Gaulle. O resultado é que ele se tornou o homem mais bem protegido do mundo. Em um ato de desespero eles contratam O Chacal, o codinome do assassino de aluguel que se compromete a matar De Gaulle em troca de meio milhão de dólares. Ele começa então a planejar a morte do famoso presidente francês para o dia 25 de agosto de 1963. Veremos os preparativos do assassino que são tão minuciosos que nos perguntaremos como ele poderia falhar, mesmo quando vemos a tentativa da polícia francesa de achar seu rastro. A situação é historicamente precisa. Houveram muitos desses atentados e o filme segue de perto o enredo do livro. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Andrei
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Don John
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
Cassio
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Archive Footage
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
Lucian Freud
Self (archive footage)
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they were knighted for their services to drama, we see early appearances from Michael Caine in a rare Shakespearean role, Ben Kingsley, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon. Featuring unique behind-the-scenes footage alongside a wealth of classic British productions like War and Peace, the Mayor of Casterbridge and the Singing Detective, it reveals many career-defining moments from the first generation of acting talent to fully embrace television drama.
Himself
We mark 60 glorious years of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running soap, with a celebration of the women who have ruled the roost in Weatherfield since the very first episode in December 1960.
A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a game that may cost them both their souls and lives.
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Out in the English Channel is the tiny island of Sark, in August 1990, a French Physicist attempted a bizarre one man invasion attempt on the island. This is his story.
