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2006
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Directed by Kerry Conran, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow revolves around the mysterious disappearance of some of the...
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2004
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Acclaimed Shakespearean thespian Claire Bloom takes viewers on a made-for-TV romp through the women's roles of William...
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1998
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The important role of non-fiction in recording history is profiled in British Documentary Movement, Vol. 4: Wartime...
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1992
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This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic...
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Old Soldier
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1988
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This seven-part British miniseries was based on J.B. Priestley's autobiographical novel, originally published in 1965....
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1987
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A TV mini-series, this is a visually pleasant movie about the life of Russia's colorful ruler, from childhood on. Big name...
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1986
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This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips...
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1986
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In one of his last film appearances, Laurence Olivier portrays an elderly painter who has locked himself away from the world...
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Henry Breasley
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1986
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Rudolf Hess
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1985
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This three-part, seven-hour TV adaptation of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 best-seller The Last Days of Pompeii was arguably...
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1984
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This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall...
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Admiral Hood
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1984
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This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet...
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Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
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1984
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John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known...
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Father
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1984
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Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in...
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King Lear
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1984
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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1983
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1983
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The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects...
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Zeus
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1981
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This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more...
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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1981
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Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally...
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1981
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Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The...
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Cantor Rabinovitch
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1980
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Abraham Van Helsing
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1979
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The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman...
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Julius
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1979
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Sir Laurence Olivier stars in this film about a group of people in a Soho restaurant who are all invited by a boisterous...
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1978
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Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer...
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Loren Hardeman, Sr.
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1978
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated...
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Ezra Lieberman
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1978
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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Nicodemus
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1977
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It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's...
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1977
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Producer, Doc Delaney
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1977
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Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped...
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Szell
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1976
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Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own...
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Prof. Moriarty
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1976
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Director
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1976
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Show Creator
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1976
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This TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning play stars Robert Wagner as Brick, a college sports champion who...
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Producer, Big Daddy Pollitt
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1976
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Made for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and...
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1975
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Gentleman Tramp utilizes clearer-than-usual vintage filmclips to trace the life and career of comedy giant Charlie Chaplin....
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1975
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Listed variously as a 1975 and 1978 release (it was actually produced in 1976), The Collection is a videotaped staging of the...
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1975
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Documents Hitler's extermination of the Jews, with interviews of survivors and the British Foreign Secretary during WWII. ~...
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1975
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Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of...
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1974
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This video is part four in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Originally...
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1974
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This video is part five in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Laurence Olivier...
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1974
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This video is part three in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. These historic...
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1974
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This video is volume 20 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The highly...
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1974
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This video is part 22 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The highly acclaimed...
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1974
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Part of The World at War series, which chronicles the events of World War II, featuring interviews with military leaders and...
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1974
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This video is volume one in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Originally...
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1974
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This video is part eight in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The highly...
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1974
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This video is part six in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Hosted by...
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1974
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This video is part seven in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Originally airing...
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1974
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This video is part two in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Hosted by...
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1974
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This video is part nine in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The award-winning...
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1974
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This video is part ten in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The television...
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1974
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1974
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This video is part 12 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The acclaimed...
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1974
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This video is part-11 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The award winning...
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1974
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This video is part 13 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The award-winning...
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1974
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This video is part 16 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The programs,...
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1974
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This video is part 17 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The award-winning...
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1974
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This film is part of a British series that chronicles the major events and figures of World War II. With help from archival...
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1974
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This video is part 15 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The highly acclaimed...
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1974
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Born in the Texas Hill Country German immigrant town of Fredericksburg, the low-key Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966) had a...
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1974
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This video is the last episode in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The highly...
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1974
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This video is episode 25 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Narrated by...
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1974
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The World at War is an award-winning series of programs using film from national and international archives to produce a...
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1974
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This video is part 19 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. Laurence Olivier...
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1974
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This video is volume 24 in the 26-volume World at War series that chronicles the history of World War II. The award-winning...
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1974
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Olivier stars in this production of the Shakespearean tragedy about greed and vengeance. ~ Rovi...
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Shylock
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1973
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British actors perform Eugene O'Neill's family drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night in a made-for-television performance....
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James Tyrone, Sr
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1973
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The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director...
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Andrew Wyke
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1972
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Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas...
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Count Witte
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1971
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their...
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Director, Producer
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1970
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
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1969
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1968
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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Premier Kamenev
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1968
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This Swedish melodrama is set upon a small fortresslike island. Upon the island lives a bitter artillery captain, his wife...
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1968
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After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad...
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The Mahdi
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1966
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The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as...
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Othello
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1965
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Newhouse
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1965
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This version of Chekov's classic play was recorded at the 1963 Chichester Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Director
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1963
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Based on James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, this is a thoughtful drama revolving around the relationship between a...
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Graham Weir
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1962
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1961
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Marcus Licinius Crassus
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1960
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Archie Rice
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1960
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This film version of George Bernard Shaw's satirical take on the American Revolution had a troubled production history (with...
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Gen. John Burgoyne
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1959
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The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars...
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Director, Producer, Grand Duke Charles
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1957
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Richard III
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1955
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1953
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Laurence Olivier makes his singing debut in this lively adaptation of John Gay's 18th century theatrical piece The Beggar's...
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Producer, Capt. MacHeath
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1953
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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George Hurstwood
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1952
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Hamlet
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1948
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With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd...
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1944
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Henry V
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1944
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1944
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Ivan Kouznetsoff
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1943
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49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the...
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Johnnie
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1941
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Lord Horatio Nelson
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1941
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Maxim de Winter
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1940
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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Mr. Darcy
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1940
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Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted...
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Larry Durrant
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1940
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Heathcliff
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1939
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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Tony McVane
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1939
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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Everard Logan
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1938
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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Michael Ingolby
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1937
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Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer...
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Capt. Ignatoff
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1936
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This interesting early docu-drama offers a complete chronicle of the history of aviation from prehistoric times through the...
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1936
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Orlando
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1936
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Back before there was "no-fault divorce" couples wanting to split up had to provide hard evidence of spousal wrong-doing...
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Clive Dering
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1934
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Star Gloria Swanson also co-produced this British film, a romantic comedy/drama that teamed her with a young Laurence...
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Nicholas Randall
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1933
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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Nick Allen
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1932
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Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow...
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Julian Rolphe
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1931
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A spiteful, young noblewoman, married to a prominent lord attempts to ruin the life of the highly-principled chauffeur who...
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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Lt. Nichols
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1931
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1930
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This German comedy contains the feature film debut of Sir Lawrence Olivier. He plays a modern artist who has not yet found an...
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Peter Bille
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1930
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