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Roots (2016) #980
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With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Humans S2 (2016) #985
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With Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Carless, Gemma Chan, Tom Goodman-Hill. In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live. 8x50 min episodes. C4. |
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Imagine: DANGER! Cornelia Parker (2016) #995
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Imagine reveals the darker side of one of Britain's most original and inventive artists. A sculptor working with found materials, Cornelia Parker creates beauty from acts of brutality - an exploded shed, piles of squashed silver, the charred remnants of a burnt church suspended in time. Born in 1956 to a German mother and an English father in rural Cheshire, Parker always struggled to fit in. Art was her escape. In 2016 she embarked on the most high-profile commission of her career - the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alan Yentob follows Parker's creative process in a film that sees her delve deep into America's history, cinema and art, as well as her own personal past. |
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Robot Wars (2016) #1006
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1 hour. BBC. Series 8 Episode 1. Robot Wars launch show presented by Dara O Briain and Angela Scanlon. Forty teams of amateur robot fighting enthusiasts battle it out over a series of rounds in a huge purpose-built arena, aiming to become the Robot Wars champion. It's not just the competition they have to contend with, as the arena is patrolled by four huge House Robots which are geared up to attack anyone who strays into their Corner Patrol Zones. There are also fire, spikes, the Flipper and the Pit, dangerous hazards designed to cause maximum damage to the competitors. In between their fights, teams have time to repair their robots and plan for their next fights in the pits area. In this episode, the most famous fighting robot in history, Razer, faces up against a host of other fighting robots for the chance to become the Robot Wars champion. Eight teams made up of families and friends from across the country put their homemade robots to the test. The winner at the end of this show will go forward to the grand final. |
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) #1020
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Directed by Travis Knight. With Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes. A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) #1024
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Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. |
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Sully (2016) #1030
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey. The story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew. |
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Frantz (2016) #1057
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Directed by François Ozon. With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber. In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers. |
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Young, Gifted and Classical: The Making of a Maestro (2016) #1059
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1 hour. BBC. Sheku Kanneh-Mason made history in 2016 when he became the first black winner of the BBC Young Musician competition. Sheku has six musically gifted siblings and this film explores their extraordinary talents and issues of diversity in classical music. We follow Sheku and his brothers and sisters and examine the sacrifices that parents Stuart and Kadie make in order to support their children in pursuing their musical dreams. Told through the prism of family life we get an understanding of what it is that drives this family to be the best musicians they can be. At the heart of the story is 17-year-old Sheku, and we see him coming to terms with his Young Musician win and the pressures and opportunities it brings. His life is changing dramatically as he now has to learn to deal with the challenges of becoming a world-renowned cellist. He gets advice from those who have trodden this path already, including international violinist Nicola Benedetti and renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, discovering what it takes to be a famous international solo musician. The documentary culminates with Sheku's biggest performance to date, playing at the world-famous Royal Festival Hall in London, with Britain's first all-black and ethnic minority orchestra, Chineke!. As the preparations for this groundbreaking concert begin, the film explores what it means to be a young, black, classical musician in today's society. |
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Nina (2016) #1073
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Directed by Cynthia Mort. With Zoe Saldana, David Oyelowo, Kevin Mambo, Ronald Guttman. The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson. |
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Maudie (2016) #1092
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Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose. An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community. |
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Eddie the Eagle (2016) #1103
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello, Jo Hartley. The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics. |
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Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life (2016) #1139
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Directed by Georg Wübbolt. With Daryl Jackson, Leonard Bernstein, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano. The documentary explores Leonard Bernstein's various facets, as a conductor, a composer, a pianist and most of all a teacher and how he influenced so many people. It includes interviews of his children, former conductor students, orchestra members, collaborators and other acquaintances. |
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) #1164
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Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. |
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The Joy of Data (2016) #1181
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1 hour. BBC. A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution. For Hannah, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. Hannah sees data as the essential bridge between two universes - the tangible, messy world that we see and the clean, ordered world of maths, where everything can be captured beautifully with equations. The film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the network map of Wikipedia. What's the mystery link between marmalade and One Direction? The film hails the contribution of Claude Shannon, the mathematician and electrical engineer who, in an attempt to solve the problem of noisy telephone lines, devised a way to digitise all information. Shannon singlehandedly launched the 'information age'. Meanwhile, Britain's National Physical Laboratory hosts a race between its young apprentices in order to demonstrate how and why data moves quickly around modern data networks. It's all thanks to the brilliant technique first invented there in the 1960s by Welshman Donald Davies - packet switching. But what of the future? Should we be worried by the pace of change and what our own data could be used for? Ultimately, Fry concludes, data has empowered all of us. We must have machines at our side if we're to find patterns in the modern-day data deluge. But, Fry believes, regardless of AI and machine learning, it will always take us to find the meaning in them. |
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Denial (2016) #1192
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Directed by Mick Jackson. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott. Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. |
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Lucy Worsley's Reins of Power: The Art of Horse Dancing (2016) #1201
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1 hour. BBC. Strictly Come Prancing: Lucy Worsley learns to ride - in fact, she learns how to dance on horseback before putting on a show for the paying public! Now, if this sounds mad, horse ballet or manege was once the noblest of pursuits practised by everyone from courtier to king in the first half of the 17th century. Having become fascinated by this horsey hobby whilst writing her PhD, Lucy is on a quest to find out why this peculiar skill was once so de rigeur - learning the lost art from its modern masters, visiting the Spanish Riding School in Vienna to witness spectacular equestrian shows, exploring its military origins through donning Henry VIII-style jousting armour, and discovering horse ballet's legacies in competitive dressage and, more surprisingly, in the performances of the Royal Horse Artillery, the King's Troop today. |
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The BFG (2016) #1214
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. |
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Finding Dory (2016) #1229
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Directed by Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane. With Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson. Friendly but forgetful blue tang Dory begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way. |
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016) #1284
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Directed by Simon Godwin. With Paapa Essiedu, Tanya Moodie, Clarence Smith, Ewart James Walters. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. |
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