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The King's Choice (2016) #1074
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Directed by Erik Poppe. With Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny. On the 9th of April 1940, the German war machine arrives in the city of Oslo. The Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever. aka Kongens nei |
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Whisky Galore (2016) #1086
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Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With James Cosmo, Sean Biggerstaff, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick. Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship. |
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Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream (2016) #1124
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3 x 1 hour. BBC. Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the story of how the Habsburg family transformed Vienna into the capital that it is today, during a dynasty era lasting nearly 1,000 years. From the 13th to 20th century, Vienna was the capital of the Hapsburg dynasty and its middle European empire. In this series, Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the story of how the Habsburgs transformed Vienna into a multi-national city of music, culture and ideas; of palaces and churches; of coffee houses, courtesans, and conquerors. He describes how Napoleon, Hitler, Mozart and Freud all played their part and how Vienna has become the monumental capital of Austria that it is today. 1/3 Vienna marked Europe's front line in the defence of Christendom and the Catholic Church. 2/3 How Habsburg emperors transformed the city from a fortress into a great cultural capital. 3/3 While the Habsburgs headed for extinction, Vienna blossomed. |
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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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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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Flying Scotsman (2016) #1201
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30 mins. BBC. Celebrating the restoration of the famous locomotive. |
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Rogue One: A Star Wars story (2016) #1243
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Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen. The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. |
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Trapped (2016) #1274
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Created by Baltasar Kormákur. With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Elva María Birgisdóttir. In a remote town in Iceland, Police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. 10x1 hour episodes. Watched 4/6/2020 under lockdown... |
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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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National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2016) #1289
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150mins. by Lorraine Hansberry Adapted by Robert Nemiroff Restored text directed by Joi Gresham. National Theatre at Home: Les Blancs An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm. Yaël Farber (Mies Julie, Nirbhaya) directs the final play by Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the Sun): a brave, illuminating and powerful work that confronts the hope and tragedy of revolution. This play is about imperialism, racism, and colonialism and contains some scenes of racially motivated violence, that some people may find distressing. This archive recording was captured by the National Theatre in 2016. |
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Cosi Fan Tutte (2016) #1305
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3 hours and 4 minutes. Riveting production of Mozart's comedy about love and fidelity from The Royal Opera, starring Johannes Martin Kranzle and Sabina Puertolas. Conducted by Semyon Bychkov. From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. |
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Now You See Me 2 (2016) #1306
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Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco. The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. |
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016) #1435
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Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him. |
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Your Name. (2016) #1540
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1h 46m Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person. |
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Artsnight - Design (2016) #1562
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60mins BBC. The Brits Who Designed the Modern World Artsnight Series 4 If there were an Olympic league table for design, Britain would be right at the top. Since the Second World War, British designers have revolutionised our homes, our workplaces, our roads and our public institutions. In November 2016, the Design Museum opened its new £83m home in Kensington. To mark this great moment for British design, BBC Arts profiles ten great living British designers. Arts reporter Brenda Emmanus meets and profiles our 'Top 10', to find out what inspires them to make such phenomenal objects. She reveals how designers have responded to society's evolving tastes, from the brash 60s modernism of Margaret Calvert's road signs through to the colourful technology of Rick Dickinson's ZX Spectrum. She also meets Britain's most prolific designer, Sir Kenneth Grange (Intercity 125, bus shelters, the Kenwood Chef...), as well as Andrew Ritchie, who gave the world the Brompton Bike. And we also hear from an illustrious panel of celebrities whose lives have been transformed by British design, including Will.i.am, Jeremy Paxman, Pete Waterman, Ade Adepitan and Jenny Eclair. |
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Inside Out (2015) #428
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Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Pixar/Disney |
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Suffragette (2015) #552
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Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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The Martian (2015) #451
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara. An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. |
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