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The Post (2017) #1300
FILM
Main
Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk. A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. About the 'Pentagon Papers' - prior to the Watergate affair.. |
| 162 |
Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (2017) #1319
DOCUMENTARY
Special
1 hour. BBC. Lucy Worsley explores the different houses in which Jane Austen lived and stayed, to discover just how much they shaped Jane's life and novels. On a journey that takes her across England, Lucy visits properties that still exist, from grand stately homes to seaside holiday apartments, and brings to life those that have disappeared. The result is a revealing insight into one of the world's best-loved authors. |
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The Children Act (2017) #1328
FILM
Main
Directed by Richard Eyre. With Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Jason Watkins, Ben Chaplin. As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle. |
| 164 |
Maria by Callas (2017) #1353
FILM
Main
Directed by Tom Volf. With Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, David Frost. An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words. |
| 165 |
The Other Side of Hope (2017) #1564
FILM
Main
1h 40m A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland. |
| 166 |
Doctor Thorne (2016) #455
FILM
Main
With Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Harry Richardson, Rebecca Front. The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate. 3x1 hour |
| 167 |
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) #511
FILM
Main,Disk
Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 168 |
The Silk Road (2016) #581
DOCUMENTARY
Main
With Sam Willis. Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity. 3x1hour. BBC. |
| 169 |
Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute (2016) #582
FILM
Main
Directed by John Bridcut. With Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Churchill. A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal ciné films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various ... 70mins. BBC. 21st April 2016. |
| 170 |
The Last Seabird Summer? (2016) #583
DOCUMENTARY
Main
With Adam Nicolson. 2x1 hour. BBC. Series following Adam Nicolson and the seabirds of the Shiants, a small cluster of Scottish islands. With crisis threatening their future, Adam traces the history of our relationship with seabirds. 1/2 Living with the Birds. As they arrive from the Atlantic, Adam traces our history of dependence on seabirds. 2/2 Trouble at Sea. In Iceland, Adam sees colonies where nearly all the birds have been wiped out. |
| 171 |
No Body's Perfect with Rankin and Alison Lapper (2016) #889
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. Documentary. International fashion photographer Rankin and artist Alison Lapper explore how the explosion of digital photography, social media and selfie culture has affected people's sense of identity. Rankin and Alison challenge four individuals who all hate the camera for a variety of reasons to be photographed up-close to investigate different perceptions of self-worth, image and beauty. |
| 172 |
Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley (2016) #895
DOCUMENTARY
Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs. 1/3 Reinventing Russia. A look at the early Romanovs, from 16-year-old Mikhail in 1613 to Peter the Great. 2/3 Age of Extremes. Lucy examines the reign of Catherine the Great and the conflict with Napoleonic France. 3/3 The Road to Revolution. Lucy investigates how the family's grip on Russia unravelled in the years 1825-1918. |
| 173 |
Imagine: The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan (2016) #946
DOCUMENTARY
Main
75mins. BBC. One of the most provocative and elusive figures in contemporary art finds himself the subject of Maura Axelrod's film. Catapulted to worldwide notoriety in 1999 by The Ninth Hour, a sculpture of Pope John Paul II toppled by a meteorite, Maurizio Cattelan's work has bordered on criminal activity (breaking into a gallery and stealing another artist's work) and regularly defies good taste - Him features Hitler in prayer and sold earlier this year for a whopping £12,000,000. Building his career on evasion, trickery and subversion, Cattelan is perhaps not the most reliable of interviewees, but ex-girlfriends, family members, collectors and dealers build a compelling and intimate portrait of an enigmatic figure. Bold, witty and playful as a Cattelan work itself, is this film really all it seems? |
| 174 |
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) #953
DOCUMENTARY
Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Documentary series featuring dramatic reconstruction in which Lucy Worsley revisits key events in the lives of Henry VIII's six wives. 1/3 Katherine of Aragon passionately defended her position as Henry pressed for annulment. 2/3 Henry marries Anne Boleyn, but rumours start to spread that she has been unfaithful. 3/3 Henry annuls his marriage to Anne of Cleves and marries Catherine Howard two weeks later. |
| 175 |
The Coming War on China (2016) #955
FILM-DOCUMENTARY
Main
Directed by John Pilger. With Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance. |
| 176 |
West Side Stories - The Making of a Classic (2016) #961
DOCUMENTARY-MUSIC
Main
1 hour. BBC. West Side Story is one of the best-loved musicals of all time. A modern-day Romeo and Juliet, its timeless story and exhilarating dance and music continue to excite audiences around the globe. Songs such as Maria, Somewhere, Tonight and America have all become some of the biggest hits in showbusiness. And yet, West Side Story had an uneasy birth and was even turned away by producers when it was first put together in the 1950s by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents. Now, as the world prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of West Side Story in 2017, dancer Bruno Tonioli and broadcaster Suzy Klein go in search of the true stories behind the inception of this classic show. For the first time on television, they hear first-hand from those involved in the show when it opened on Broadway in September 1957, including Sondheim himself, producer Hal Prince and original cast members from both show and movie, including Chita Rivera Carol Lawrence and Rita Moreno. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and specially cast singers, we re-live some of the wonderful music and, in the company of Suzy and Bruno, we discover how West Side Story placed the 1950s phenomena of racial tension and teenage gangs centre stage to create a hit that changed musical theatre forever. |
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The Jungle Book (2016) #964
FILM
Main
Directed by Jon Favreau. With Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. Disney |
| 178 |
John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016) #967
DOCUMENTARY
Main
BBC. 1 hour. Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday, this is an intimate portrait of the late writer and art critic whose groundbreaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger. Berger lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps, where the nearness to nature, the world of the peasants and his motorcycle, which for him deals so much with presence, inspired his drawing and writing. The film introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral and photographer Jean Mohr, as well as two of his children - film critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger. The prelude and starting point is Berger's mind-boggling experience of restored vision following a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of his clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers the irredeemable wonder of seeing. Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with Berger leading in his favourite role of the storyteller. |
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Cunk on Shakespeare (2016) #968
COMEDY
Main
30 mins. BBC. Comedy from Charlie Brooker starring Philomena Cunk, the witless commentator from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe. Philomena knows absolutely nothing about Shakespeare, but that won't stop her attempting to present a groundbreaking documentary about him. Fresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time ('It'll always be an unknowable mystery, like how phones work') Winston Churchill ('Imagine how good his tweets would have been'), and Donald Trump ('There's this amazing stuff on his head; it's not hair, it's like a sort of furry gas'), Philomena Cunk has finally been given her own show - about William Shakespeare. Cunk will leave no stone unturned as she gets to the bottom of the Bard, visiting his birthplace, exploring the Globe, studying priceless artefacts and interviewing literally six different experts, including renowned actor Simon Russell Beale, Educating Yorkshire teacher Matthew Burton and top Shakespearean scholar Professor Stanley Wells. Shorter than Hamlet, funnier than King Lear and easier to spell than Cymbeline, Cunk On Shakespeare is absolutely the last word in Shakespeare documentaries. |
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Great Canal Journeys: The Leeds and Liverpool (2016) #974
DOCUMENTARY
Main
C4. 47 mins.Tim and Pru take another journey into their pasts, via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2016. Lancashire to Apperley Bridge via Skipton, Bingley, Haworth and Saltaire. |
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