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Revolutionary Road (2008) #129
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. |
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Britain from Above (2008) #704
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BBC. Episode 1 of 6 - Satellite Earth. Documentary with Andrew Marr telling the story of one satellite's journey into space and how global agencies and individuals are using satellites in all kinds of ways - farming their land from space, locating ancient water supplies hidden deep beneath the most arid desert regions and tracking ocean currents and the global mechanisms of climate change. As every conceivable aspect of our world is being 'sensed' and recorded, from the skies above our heads to the rocks beneath our feet, here is an in-depth look at the biggest technological revolution since the invention of the steam engine. |
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Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) #1146
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6x30minute episodes. Sitcom placing the scheming Edmund Blackadder in the trenches during the First World War. 1/6 Plan A - Captain Cook: Edmund is sent into no man's land to sketch the German positions. 2/6 Plan B - Corporal Punishment: Blackadder faces court martial for eating a carrier pigeon. 3/6 Plan C - Major Star: The October Revolution in Moscow results in a Charlie Chaplin impression from Baldrick. 4/6 Plan D - Private Plane: Edmund, George and Baldrick join the Royal Flying Corps. 5/6 Plan E - General Hospital: Melchett orders Blackadder to unmask a spy working in a hospital. 6/6 Plan F - Goodbyeee: Blackadder, George and Baldrick are told they are going over the top the next day. |
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Wagner (1981) #499
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TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times. |
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How Wars Begin 1 (1977) #10
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The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire. (Lecture 1 of 6 in the Series How Wars Begin by AJP Taylor) [See all 6 episodes in Radio Randall / Video / Clips / AJP Taylor] |
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The Ascent of Man (1973) #1490
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The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and presented by British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, who also authored a book adaptation. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long, elegant monologues, and its extensive location shoots. The programme began broadcasting on BBC2 at 9 pm on Saturday, 5 May 1973 and was released in the US 7 January 1975. 01 Lower than the Angels - Evolution of humans from proto-ape to the modern form 400,000 years ago. 02 The Harvest of the Seasons - Early human migration, agriculture and the first settlements, and war. 03 The Grain in the Stone - Tools, and the development of architecture and sculpture. 04 The Hidden Structure - Fire, metals and alchemy. 05 Music of the Spheres - The language of numbers and mathematics. 06 The Starry Messenger - Galileo's universe - and the implications of his trial on the shift to "northern" science. 07 The Majestic Clockwork - Explores Newton and Einstein's laws. 08 The Drive for Power - The Industrial Revolution and the effect on everyday life. 09 The Ladder of Creation - Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species. 10 World within World - The story of the periodic table - and of the atom. 11 Knowledge or Certainty - Physics and the clash of the pursuit of absolute vs. imperfect knowledge, and the misgivings of the scientists realising the terrible outcome of the conflict. Auschwitz. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 12 Generation upon Generation - The joys of life, sex and genetics and the dark side of cloning. 13 The Long Childhood - Bronowski's treatise on the commitment of humanity. |
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Doctor Zhivago (1965) #1001
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Directed by David Lean. With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution. |
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Animal Farm (1954) #1272
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Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |