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Castles in the Sky
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directed by Gillies MacKinnon; designed by Gill Horn; produced by Simon Wheeler, Hero Productions; performed by Eddie Izzard, 1962-, Laura Fraser, Alex Jennings, 1957-, Julian Rhind-Tutt, 1968-, David Hayman, 1948-, Timothy McInnerny and Karl Davies (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 1 hour 29 mins
Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off the...
directed by Gillies MacKinnon; designed by Gill Horn; produced by Simon Wheeler, Hero Productions; performed by Eddie Izzard, 1962-, Laura Fraser, Alex Jennings, 1957-, Julian Rhind-Tutt, 1968-, David Hayman, 1948-, Timothy McInnerny and Karl Davies (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 1 hour 29 mins
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Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
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directed by Simon Richards; produced by Colin Burrows, Ecosse Films (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 23 mins
BBC AMERICA's Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond takes a no holds barred look at Ian Fleming, the man behind the 007 legend whose real life was as exciting, eventful and sexually charged as his famous creation. Set at the outbreak of WWII - mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending...
directed by Simon Richards; produced by Colin Burrows, Ecosse Films (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 23 mins
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Hitler on Trial
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directed by Justin Hardy, fl. 1988; produced by Lucy Bassnett-McGuire, fl. 1998, Mark Hayhurst and Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, Hardy Pictures; performed by Ed Stoppard, 1974-, Ian Hart, fl. 1971-2014, Bill Paterson, 1945- and Sarah Smart (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2011), 1 hour 25 mins
In the summer of 1931, a young Jewish lawyer called Hans Litten put Adolf Hitler on the witness stand of a Berlin court. Hans wanted to expose the true character of Hitler to the German public. He forced Hitler to account for his violent methods, his apparent contempt for the law and his stated desire to destroy G...
directed by Justin Hardy, fl. 1988; produced by Lucy Bassnett-McGuire, fl. 1998, Mark Hayhurst and Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, Hardy Pictures; performed by Ed Stoppard, 1974-, Ian Hart, fl. 1971-2014, Bill Paterson, 1945- and Sarah Smart (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2011), 1 hour 25 mins
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Life in Squares, Episode 1
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directed by Simon Kaijser; designed by Claire Anderson, fl. 1995; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
Penned by Bafta-winner Amanda Coe, Life in Squares dramatizes the extraordinary lives of the Bloomsbury Group, a profoundly influential set of artists and intellectuals. Told over 40 years, from the death of Queen Victoria to the Second World War, the story centres on the close and often fraught relationship betwe...
directed by Simon Kaijser; designed by Claire Anderson, fl. 1995; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
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Life in Squares, Episode 2
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directed by Simon Kaijser; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
Penned by Bafta-winner Amanda Coe, Life in Squares dramatizes the extraordinary lives of the Bloomsbury Group, a profoundly influential set of artists and intellectuals. Told over 40 years, from the death of Queen Victoria to the Second World War, the story centres on the close and often fraught relationship betwe...
directed by Simon Kaijser; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
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Life in Squares, Episode 3
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directed by Simon Kaijser; designed by Claire Anderson, fl. 1995; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
Penned by Bafta-winner Amanda Coe, Life in Squares dramatizes the extraordinary lives of the Bloomsbury Group, a profoundly influential set of artists and intellectuals. Told over 40 years, from the death of Queen Victoria to the Second World War, the story centres on the close and often fraught relationship betwe...
directed by Simon Kaijser; designed by Claire Anderson, fl. 1995; produced by Rhonda Smith, fl. 1996, Ecosse Films; performed by Eve Best, 1971-, Phoebe Fox, 1987-, Andrew Havill, 1965-, Guy Henry, Sam Hoare, Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack, 1972-, in Life in Squares (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1, The First Day
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directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 59 mins
August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared. 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. Among these professional soldiers are the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, some of the best-trained gunners in the British Army. Lieutenant Maurice Dease and...
directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 59 mins
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2, Pals
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directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neigh...
directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3, War Machine
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directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
1918, and after four years of combat the British invent a new weapon designed to break the stalemate. Private Chas Rowland, determined to bring the war to an end and return home, joins the Tank Corps under the command of Lieutenant Mould, entering the extraordinary world of the Niveleur, a Mark V tank. Primed to...
directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
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Spies of Warsaw, Episode 1
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directed by Coky Giedroyć, 1962-; produced by Piotr Derewenda, Apple Film Production; performed by David Tennant, 1971-, Janet Montgomery and Marcin Dorocinski, in Spies of Warsaw (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 46 mins
David Tennant and Janet Montgomery star in this adaptation of Alan Furst's celebrated spy novel set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the french embassy in Warsaw, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal an...
directed by Coky Giedroyć, 1962-; produced by Piotr Derewenda, Apple Film Production; performed by David Tennant, 1971-, Janet Montgomery and Marcin Dorocinski, in Spies of Warsaw (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 46 mins
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