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Puccini: Turandot (2009) #602 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Maria Guleghina, Marcello Giordani, Marina Poplavskaya, Samuel Ramey. To win the hand of Princess Turandot, suitors must first answer her three riddles, but an incorrect answer sends the suitor to the executioner. A stranger with no name, who no-one knows, tries. Will he win her hand, or lose his head? Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
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Panda Makers (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and... |
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Verdi: Aida (2009) #604 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Violeta Urmana, Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick, Carlo Guelfi. Pharoah's daughter loves Radames, leader of the Egyptian army. So does slave-girl, Aida, who happens to be (unknown to anyone) Princess of Ethiopia. Aida must choose either her country or Radames. The outcome leaves both gasping for breath. Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
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National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019) #1287 Remove Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Paul Adeyefa, Hammed Animashaun, Charlotte Atkinson, Oliver Chris. Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night. |
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Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #533 Remove Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. |
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The Department Store: Milners (2008) #684 Remove Filmmaker Richard Macer visits the independent high street department stores that are fighting back against the big brands. | |
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Smokin' Aces 2: Assasins Ball (2010) #214 Remove Directed by P.J. Pesce. With Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling. Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise. |
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929) #74 Remove Directed by Dziga Vertov. With Mikhail Kaufman. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. |
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Barry Lyndon (1975) #1191 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. On two disks. |
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The Secret Life of Chaos (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. | |
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Panda Makers (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and... |
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A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) #1190 Remove Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Melissa Collier, Sarah Laborde. Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case. |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) #274 Remove Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. |
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Horizon: To Infinity and Beyond (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. | |
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The Department Store: Milners (2008) #684 Remove Filmmaker Richard Macer visits the independent high street department stores that are fighting back against the big brands. | |
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The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020) #1301 Remove With Kate Fleetwood, Andrew Neil, Alastair Campbell, Nigel Farage. The incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's influence on world events. 3x1 hour BBC |
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Criminal Justice (2008) #667 Remove 5x1 hour episodes. Series 1 complete. |