A class of undisciplined, smart and funny history students actively pursue an undergraduate place at Oxbridge.
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will TIlston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
This is the incredible true story of the man who created Chester Zoo in the 1930s and the impact it had on his family. Our Zoo is based on the extraordinary and inspiring real story of the eccentric Mottershead family who, despite huge opposition and personal sacrifice, established Chester Zoo in the 1930s. With a single-mindedness bordering on madness George Mottershead drove himself and his family to realise his ambition to transform a ramshackle house on the outskirts of Chester into a un.
"The Bank Job" is inspired by an extraordinary true event, a daring, unsolved robbery, which took place more than 35 years ago in London.
Based on Jennie Rooney's best-selling novel of the same name. The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she's arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question what price would you pay for peace? Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones, or saving them.
Downton Abbey, with all its splendour and scandal, has found its way into the hearts of millions around the globe. Now the full collection of six award-winning seasons and one sensational movie is yours to treasure, forever. Home to the Crawley family and their servants, Downton appears to be all elegance and order upon first glance, but no family is ever quite what it seems. Between the desires and dreams of all the residents, both upstairs and downstairs, a day in this household is never far from high drama. Re-live the laughter, tears, tragedy and triumph leading up to the most spectacular event in the history of this grand estate, a Royal visit. BONUS FEATURES Over 5 Hours of Bonus Features Including: Feature Documentary:The Story of Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes Behind the Scenes The Downton Diaries s Upstairs & Downstairs Cast Conversations Feature Commentary with Director Michael Engler And More!
Antoine Bardon-Jacquet directs this comedy drama starring Ron Perlman and Rupert Grint as reluctant accomplices in a 1969 ruse. With the planned USA moon mission imminent, CIA agent Kidman (Perlman) is tasked with persuading Stanley Kubrick to produce a fake moon landing film in case the venture goes awry. A naive Kidman travels to London where he is duped by seedy band manager Jonny (Grint) who introduces his waster friend Leon (Robert Sheehan) as Kubrick to get the handsome down payment. When it dawns on Kidman that he's been tricked, he forces Jonny to help him get a moon landing film. But with only seven days till lift off, can they pull it off?
The Bank Job: Starring Jason Stantham as Terry a car dealer with a dodgy past and Saffron Burrows as Martine the woman with the plan The Bank Job interweaves corruption murder and scandel with 1970's England! When Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street he recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime! The plan: to target a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. However Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld the highest echelons of the British government and the Royal Family itself. Chaos: After a deadly bank heist Detectives Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) and Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) are drawn into a mysterious case where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind (Wesley Snipes) who seems to kill without warning or reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception - the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaos. War: After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li) FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.... Revolver: Hotshot gambler Jake Green (Jason Statham) is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and in fact has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother Billy. Invited to a private game Jake is expected for fear of losing his life to lose heavily to local crime lord Macha (Liotta). However despite warnings Jake cleans out Macha and must go to work for a pair of brothers who promise to protect him from the inevitable visit of a hitman coming Jake's way...
When Wallis Simpson meets Edward Prince of Wales he is charmed by her flirtatious and straight-talking manner and begs her to divorce her husband Ernest. George V dies and Edward becomes King but he has no desire to give up Wallis for a life of Royal duty. As a constitutional crisis grips the nation Edward and the British Government lock horns. The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin insists that Wallis cannot become Queen. Despite Wallis's pleas for him to remain King Edward feel
Aden, 1965. The men of the British Royal Military Police are battling a fierce insurgency. Tensions are heightened in the heat of the desert; any lapse in luck or judgement means death. But life and love must continue. The 60s are starting to swing: sexual liberation, seductive new music and outrageous fashions have hit the sun loungers of the glamorous BP Club. Isolated in this unknown country, nothing is certain, and relationships are tested as pressure and passions intensify. This bitter war brings danger and betrayal, and will question the code these dedicated soldiers live by.
Set in the 1930's A Good Woman is an elegant, witty, romantic comedy based on Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan".
The young poet Lord Byron had everything. He was beautiful aristocratic talented - and sexually irresistible. By his mid-twenties he was the most famous man in England - the world's first celebrity. Women flung themselves at him. Men wanted to be like him. He lived for sensation and sexual excess indulging his darkest cravings and scandalising the nation until he could only be satiated by a passionate affair with his own half-sister. Too late he discovered that even a celebrity can go too far...
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The Second World War is over and Britain, America and Russia are all vying for control of the new world order. Meet 22-year-old aristocrat Feef Symonds, who is thrust into the heart of battle, despite having all the life experience of a 1945 millennial. Trained to spy in wartime, but never given the chance to test her skills, Feef lands a job in the British civil service. In the aftermath of a shock Socialist election victory, fanatical American agent Rowe targets her to spy on her own country. Her mission: to root out suspected Soviet penetration of the British government. Gutsy and determined, Feef rises to the challenge. But when she finds out that her predecessor was likely murdered, and the danger of discovery mounts, Feef is left wondering if she's made a disastrous mistake.
The Bank Job is a highly-charged heist thriller based upon the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London. Starring Jason Stantham as Terry a car dealer with a dodgy past and Saffron Burrows as Martine the woman with the plan The Bank Job interweaves corruption murder and scandel with 1970's England! When Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street he recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime! The plan: to target a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. However Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld the highest echelons of the British government and the Royal Family itself...
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will TIlston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
Stephen Fry's directorial debut about the young, wild, party-loving creatures of the 1930s. Sex, scandal, celebrity... Some things never change...
Julie Walters (Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story; Mamma Mia!) stars in A Short Stay In Switzerland for BBC One a one-off drama inspired by the true story of Dr Anne Turner by award-winning writer Frank McGuinness one of Ireland's foremost dramatists. Having just witnessed the death of her husband Jack from an incurable neurological disease Anne Turner (Julie Walters) is diagnosed with a near identical illness. With determined rationality Anne's answer is that once her illness has reached a critical point she will take her own life. And she needs her children's support. But the more her son and two daughters struggle to gain consensus over their mother's desire to die as they struggle to find another way through the further they pull apart. From Jessica's silent recriminations to Sophie's stubborn practicality the magnitude of the situation threatens to tear the family to pieces. Anne must also face the fury of her best friend Claire - whose opposing views bring them into direct and vocal conflict.
A thrilling dark comedy in three parts. Timid schoolteacher Ian Telford (Jim Howick) faces the Stag Weekend from Hell, as he joins his future brother-in-law Johnners (Stephen Campbell Moore) and several obnoxious mates on a poorly planned deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish highlands, under the watchful eye of a menacing gamekeeper (James Cosmo). But it quickly gets messier than anyone expected, when the hunters become the hunted. And as they are brutally eliminated, one by one, their true personalities emerge, sordid secrets are unearthed and old friendships are tested to the limit in a ruthless battle for survival. Bonus Features: Bloopers, Interview, Behind the Scenes. Stag (DVD). Stag dvd, dark comedy, stag bbc, bbc dvd, bbc comedy, comedy dvd, black comedy, dark comedy dvd, stag series one, bbc two, drama dvd, crime drama
Louis Trevelyan's refusal to believe in his wife Emily's fidelity destroys a perfect marriage and drives him literally insane. Suspicious beyond reason that she is having an affair with Colonel Osbourne a man of dubious reputation he forces his wife out of their house hires the seedy private detective Bozzle to spy on her and organises the kidnapping of their son with devastating consequences. Throughout Emily's protestation of her innocence and the couple's enduring love for each other despite their estrangement render the story moving and tragic.
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