Bill Paterson
Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 18.075 |
| Birthday | 1945-06-03 |
| Place of Birth | Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1990
The Witches
6.928/1206
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand H...
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The Witches
1984
Comfort and Joy
6.5/47
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between t...
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Comfort and Joy
2000
Complicity
5.9/13
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some m...
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Complicity
2006
Miss Potter
6.6/477
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
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Miss Potter
1985
Dutch Girls
4.4/5
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and win...
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Dutch Girls
1989
The Return of the Musketeers
6.232/136
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt,...
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The Return of the Musketeers
1986
Defence of the Realm
6.5/33
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...
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Defence of the Realm
2006
Amazing Grace
6.906/282
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...
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Amazing Grace
1996
Victory
5.1/11
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...
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Victory
1998
Hilary and Jackie
6.7/95
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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Hilary and Jackie
2011
The Man who Crossed Hitler
6.4/10
In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young pr...
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The Man who Crossed Hitler
1978
Licking Hitler
0/0
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But te...
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Licking Hitler
1983
The Ploughman's Lunch
4.7/9
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lyin...
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The Ploughman's Lunch
2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
7.5/2
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester...
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2011
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
5/3
Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The spec...
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Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
2013
The List
4.5/13
Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case he had recently lost has shown him the rich and po...
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The List
1987
Friendship's Death
6.7/13
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan dur...
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Friendship's Death
2003
Bright Young Things
6.333/78
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...
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Bright Young Things
1987
Coming Up Roses
6.6/4
An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by...
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Coming Up Roses
1974
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
0/0
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Cu...
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
7/8
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
1994
Hard Times
7/2
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cine...
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Hard Times
1991
Truly Madly Deeply
6.9/96
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good a...
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Truly Madly Deeply
1984
The Killing Fields
7.48/715
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American...
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The Killing Fields
1996
Chaplin's Goliath
6.5/8
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
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Chaplin's Goliath
2006
A War on Science
9/1
When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the product...
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A War on Science
2015
The Vote
8.417/6
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers....
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The Vote
1979
One Fine Day
0/0
Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
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One Fine Day
2016
Dad's Army
4.939/198
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German...
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Dad's Army
1984
A Private Function
6.3/40
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...
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A Private Function
2016
Churchill's Secret
6.3/26
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Churchill's Secret
2001
Othello
6.6/10
With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit sti...
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Othello
2001
The Whistle-Blower
8/4
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the Na...
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The Whistle-Blower
1981
The Cherry Orchard
0/0
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pa...
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The Cherry Orchard
1991
The Object of Beauty
5.361/36
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavis...
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The Object of Beauty
1997
Mr White Goes To Westminster
2/1
A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.
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Mr White Goes To Westminster
1995
Richard III
6.7/170
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil...
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Richard III
1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
6.948/853
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
2003
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
0/0
Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery...
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Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2001
Crush
5.5/41
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them...
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Crush
1999
Sunshine
6.546/130
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbli...
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Sunshine
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
6.009/735
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra...
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
1987
Hidden City
5.143/7
Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, capalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will...
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Hidden City
1988
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
0/0
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
Just Ask for Diamond
4.3/3
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-c...
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Just Ask for Diamond
1997
Spice World
4.8/448
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their...
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Spice World
2015
High-Rise
5.617/1121
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
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High-Rise
1989
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
7/1
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny m...
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1999
The Match
6.2/13
Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure...
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The Match
1999
Heart
5.5/11
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
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Heart
2005
Rag Tale
3.7/3
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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Rag Tale
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
6.849/772
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when,...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
6.958/4094
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Kingdom of Heaven
2018
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6.4/46
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother Davi...
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
1981
United Kingdom
0/0
Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who atte...
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United Kingdom
1989
The Rachel Papers
5.2/27
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...
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The Rachel Papers
1978
The Odd Job
5.9/8
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and...
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The Odd Job
2018
Wonderdate
8/1
A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
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Wonderdate
1978
The Vanishing Army
0/0
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.
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The Vanishing Army
2009
Into the Storm
6.5/77
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...
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Into the Storm
1995
The Turnaround
0/0
Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
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The Turnaround
1977
The Garden Beyond
0/0
The Garden Beyond is a dramatised portrayal of the life of bed-ridden Perth poet William Soutar - the first independently produced Scottish film to be...
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The Garden Beyond
1999
Chrono-Perambulator
0/0
Teddy Knox, a failed inventor, finds the key to a Stone Age riddle.
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Chrono-Perambulator
2019
The Day Mountbatten Died
10/1
On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. Thre...
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The Day Mountbatten Died
1992
Tell Tale Hearts
0/0
Anthony Steadman, a child murderer, is being released from prison after 17 years. Sally McCann, a mother whose child disappeared around the time of th...
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Tell Tale Hearts
1993
Wall of Silence
0/0
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, a...
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Wall of Silence
2020
Marionette
6.16/54
A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
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Marionette
2020
Love Sarah
6.263/59
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old frien...
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Love Sarah
1985
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
0/0
A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in tele...
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Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
2006
Fascism in Colour
7.5/2
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he...
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Fascism in Colour
2008
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
10/1
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away...
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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2002
The Entity
8/1
The Entity is a documentary into the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, the state in which a person cannot move as they pass from sleep to a woken state.
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The Entity
2020
Rebecca
6.303/1054
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
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Rebecca
1977
The Thin End of the Wedge
0/0
A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in th...
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The Thin End of the Wedge
2001
Behind Bars
0/0
Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.
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Behind Bars
2002
Home Road Movies
6/3
A sweet reminiscence about a family of four children and their RAF-veteran dad, who knows the timetable of every bus in London, but realizes his large...
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Home Road Movies
1992
God on the Rocks
0/0
Growing up in a household incapable of showing love and affection, Margaret's life is transformed when Lydia, a worldly teenage maid, arrives.
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God on the Rocks
2009
Ghosts in the Machine
0/0
Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include Der...
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Ghosts in the Machine
1995
The Riddle of the Sands
0/0
Documenting the life in the estuary of the River Aithen in North-East Scotland.
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The Riddle of the Sands
2021
The Colour Room
6.8/28
A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff roares to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
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The Colour Room
2009
Creation
6.4/214
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to...
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Creation
1996
The Writing on the Wall
2/1
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further...
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The Writing on the Wall
1987
Lily My Love
0/0
Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're go...
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Lily My Love
1987
The Interrogation of John
0/0
A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area...
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The Interrogation of John
1986
God's Chosen Car Park
0/0
Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an underground car...
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God's Chosen Car Park
1992
Chaplin
7.4/1042
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...
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Chaplin
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
0/0
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2008
The Man Who Lives with Bears
0/0
A man shows the gentle and agressive side of Brown and Black Bears living with and around them. After "Grizzly Man" died in Alaska trying to do the sa...
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The Man Who Lives with Bears
1990
Yellowbacks
0/0
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question th...
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Yellowbacks
2014
Documenting John Grierson
0/0
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
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Documenting John Grierson
2024
Arthur's Whisky
4.083/6
When Joan’s husband dies, she is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two frien...
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Arthur's Whisky
2023
A Bear Named Wojtek
0/0
The story of Edinburgh Zoo's famous bear, Wojtek. A BEAR NAMED WOJTEK tells the fantastic journey of an orphaned Syrian brown bear brought to Edinburg...
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A Bear Named Wojtek
2004
Lie with Me
5.7/3
In this made-for-television thriller, Roselyn Tyler (Eve Best) awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that she...
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Lie with Me
2007
Intervention
0/0
An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-eight days with one thing in common, addiction.
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Intervention
1974
Clydescope
0/0
A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murray Grigor for the Films of Scotland Committee.
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Clydescope
1988
Byrne About Byrne
0/0
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his s...
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Byrne About Byrne
2012
Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
0/0
A journey into the history, pageantry and characters that have shaped a Scottish phenomenon. Acclaimed actor Bill Paterson narrates the astonishing st...
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Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
The White Room
0/0
In a world obsessed with knowing the future, we find Alberto, a Colombian immigrant working as a massage therapist in the City of London. Mild-mannere...
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The White Room
2009
1929: The Great Crash
6.7/3
A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the...
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