Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King. Hill died on 5th May 2024 at the age of 79.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.179 |
| Birthday | 1944-12-17 |
| Place of Birth | Blackley, Manchester, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8.4/21833
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies l...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8.483/24192
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outc...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1997
Titanic
7.9/25301
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...
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2003
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
6/20
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
6.797/1014
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects resu...
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The Ghost and the Darkness
2006
Joy Division
5.1/21
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London dur...
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Joy Division
2007
The Heart of the Earth
5.3/5
Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.
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1984
The Bounty
6.7/543
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to...
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The Bounty
2003
Gothika
6.103/2269
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that...
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Gothika
1977
Daft Mam Blues
0/0
As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
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Daft Mam Blues
2006
Ocean Odyssey
7.4/5
The largest predator on the planet, the sperm whale, is your host for an amazing exploration of the final frontier – the world at the bottom of the oc...
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Ocean Odyssey
2004
Wimbledon
6.222/982
British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it t...
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Wimbledon
2008
Franklyn
6/351
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...
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2000
Going Off Big Time
5.5/3
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
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Going Off Big Time
1999
Great Expectations
6.4/16
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imag...
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Great Expectations
2002
The Scorpion King
5.6/3102
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's...
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The Scorpion King
1990
Mountains of the Moon
6.4/71
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...
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Mountains of the Moon
1988
Drowning by Numbers
7/162
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
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Drowning by Numbers
2010
The Kid
7/22
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life tog...
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1985
Restless Natives
6.7/31
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of to...
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Restless Natives
1999
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
5.7/29
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
2008
Titus: The Gorilla King
0/0
The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 196...
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Titus: The Gorilla King
1996
The Wind in the Willows
5.5/50
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels,...
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The Wind in the Willows
1990
Shoot the Revolution
0/0
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was...
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Shoot the Revolution
2005
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
0/0
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1989
Shirley Valentine
6.3/93
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while prepari...
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Shirley Valentine
The Crumblegiant
0/0
An old woman remembers a childhood episode. The past becomes intermingled with the present. The Past becomes intermingled with the present. Past demon...
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The Crumblegiant
2007
Exodus
5.8/2
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother i...
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Exodus
2018
Segunda oportunidad
6/1
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Segunda oportunidad
2012
ParaNorman
7/2505
In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One d...
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ParaNorman
1976
Trial by Combat
7.7/3
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medie...
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Trial by Combat
2007
Save Angel Hope
5.2/4
Con artists profit from a charity campaign to raise money for a fictitious hospital.
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Save Angel Hope
1985
No Surrender
6.2/10
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish...
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No Surrender
1999
The Criminal
4.8/6
Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct...
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The Criminal
2024
The Moor
4/9
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
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The Moor
1987
Bellman and True
6.5/18
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the inf...
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Bellman and True
1984
The Chain
6.8/6
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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The Chain
1995
Madagascar Skin
5.5/6
This is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can't seem to fit into his local bar scene. Flint is a crus...
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Madagascar Skin
2010
Canoe Man
4/1
The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
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Canoe Man
2024
Forever Young
6/1
An aging woman is given the chance to be young again and right her past but is faced with a dilemma when her husband declines to join her.
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Forever Young
2016
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
6.8/5
A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their b...
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Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
1983
Henry VI Part 1
7.5/2
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 1
1983
Henry VI Part 2
7/1
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Henry VI Part 2
1983
Henry VI Part 3
7/1
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Henry VI Part 3
1983
The Tragedy of Richard III
6/1
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duk...
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The Tragedy of Richard III
1993
Shepherd on the Rock
5.5/2
A developer tries to take over a Scottish shepherd's land.
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Shepherd on the Rock
2012
Titanic: Case Closed
0/0
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1978
The Spongers
0/0
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days t...
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The Spongers
2005
A Very Social Secretary
5.8/5
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up f...
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A Very Social Secretary
2012
Outpost 11
4.4/17
Set in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, Outpost 11 is the story of three soldiers manning a remote listening post in the A...
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Outpost 11
1999
True Crime
6.533/736
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row...
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True Crime
2005
The Last Tommy
0/0
Britain's last First World War veterans recall their time serving on the Western Front;
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The Last Tommy
2012
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
7.4/27
James Cameron brings together some the world's leading Titanic experts, including engineers, naval architects, artists and historians, to solve the li...
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Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2006
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
6.2/2
JFK enjoyed a number of sexual liaisons that could have ended his political career, but his brother Bobby always managed to keep the truth from the pr...
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JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
1981
Say No to Strangers
7/1
A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
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Say No to Strangers
1980
The Black Stuff
7.4/11
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrat...
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The Black Stuff
1977
Professional Foul
6/1
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student i...
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Professional Foul
1994
Dirtysomething
5/2
Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of giving up the alternativ...
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Dirtysomething
1998
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
0/0
What happened after the Titanic went down? Secrets has been revealed.
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Titanic: Secrets Revealed
1990
From Moscow to Pietushki
7.9/7
A look at Benedict Yerofeyev, the elusive author of the Russian underground classic From Moscow to Pietushki, who has existed on the fringes of Soviet...
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From Moscow to Pietushki
1992
Double X: The Name of the Game
5/4
Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion bei...
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Double X: The Name of the Game
2015
North v South
5.1/9
For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necess...
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North v South
2008
Bombay Railway
0/0
As a sequel to BBC Four's acclaimed Monsoon Railway, this two-part observational documentary looks at the incredible organisation that is the Bombay R...
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Bombay Railway
1982
Gandhi
7.6/2270
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi
1993
Olly's Prison
9/1
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer....
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Olly's Prison
1994
Speaking In Tongues
0/0
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
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Speaking In Tongues
1977
Pit Strike
0/0
1972: striking miners converge on London's power stations. Among them, the huge, dignified figure of Joshua.
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Pit Strike
2013
The Sorrows
0/0
Sarah grows up with mentally ill parents, and an unexpected pregnancy pushes her toward what she thinks is a normal life with her boyfriend. A frighte...
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The Sorrows
1993
The Art of Tripping
0/0
Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug experien...
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The Art of Tripping
1995
First Knight
6.1/1189
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancel...
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First Knight
1984
Squaring the Circle
5/1
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
1992
A Question of Identity
0/0
Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a miss...
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A Question of Identity
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.4/360
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
Golden Years
6.3/35
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M...
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Golden Years
1992
The Law Lord
0/0
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment t...
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The Law Lord
1983
Runners
4.3/3
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
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Runners
1980
Fox
1/1
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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Fox
2017
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
3/1
A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; their encounter will affect each other’s lives irr...
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Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2008
Valkyrie
6.9/3665
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...
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Valkyrie
1973
Hard Labour
6.5/9
A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
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Hard Labour
1997
The Mill on the Floss
6/11
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of...
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The Mill on the Floss
1976
It Could Happen to You
1/1
An educational film about the perils associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The drama is interspersed with scenes of a medical adviser...
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It Could Happen to You
2000
Eisenstein
5.5/4
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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Eisenstein
1987
Boy Soldier
0/0
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some...
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Boy Soldier
2000
A Question of Faith
5.7/3
A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.
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A Question of Faith
2006
No Go: The Free Derry Story
0/0
On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of...
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No Go: The Free Derry Story
2008
Exodus
0/0
Exodus charts the decline of the Protestant population from Derry’s Cityside - which saw up to one in five of the City’s population leave their homes...
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Exodus
1994
Skallagrigg
1/1
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to t...
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Skallagrigg
1986
Theban Plays: Antigone
0/0
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of d...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
2006
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
0/0
A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster on 19 December 1981. The eight-man crew of the R...
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Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
1977
Our Flesh and Blood
0/0
TV play by Mike Stott. Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
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Our Flesh and Blood
1978
She Fell Among Thieves
7/0
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villaino...
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She Fell Among Thieves
2004
Beatles Biggest Secrets
0/0
Featuring new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of the world's greatest pop group with explosive revelation...
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
1976
Housewives' Choice
0/0
Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, kindly, respectable lady.
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Housewives' Choice
1978
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
0/0
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1981
A Turn for the Worse
0/0
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fr...
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A Turn for the Worse
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
6.3/76
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way i...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
1985
The Burston Rebellion
0/0
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers,...
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The Burston Rebellion
2012
Reflections on Titanic
7.3/27
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp...
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Reflections on Titanic
2016
Inside CERN
8/1
BBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collid...
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1976
The Peddler
0/0
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can he...
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The Peddler
1999
The Titanic Chronicles
7/1
"The Titanic Chronicles" is based on the 1912 Senate Hearings into the "Titanic" Disaster. The actual testimony is read by an international cast. This...
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