Like Father Like Son

Une famille orientale émigrée, en Europe. Moncef, le père, porte en lui la souffrance du déracinement et le poids de "l’ailleurs". Sauvegarder sa culture, vivre dans le respect des traditions, c’est pour lui, plus qu’une règle de vie, une manière de rester fidèle à son passé, à son origine et surtout… à lui-même. Chaque matin, Cobra, sa fille, quitte la maison familiale. Voilée. Mais chaque matin, elle se change, dans un café, son refuge à elle ; avant de se rendre à son travail, la chevelure et l’esprit libres…

Rather depressing Turkish movie that details a impoverished father trying to make a better life for his son. He decides to move himself and his son to Instanbul to try to eke out a living so that the father can afford an education for his son and yes, buy a horse. Things of course do not go so well for him, as he is forced to become an illegal street vendor, stay in squalor, and try to enroll his son into school, even though the state run school has strict requirements about getting in….

100 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
History tells us 'what was'. It tells us when things happened. When kings and cultures lived and died, armies were raised and vanquished, and mighty empires rose and fell. History, as we know it from books, is often boring, for it fails to answer one very simple question: What was it like? When war broke out in Europe in July 1914, people on all sides believed it would be over by Christmas. Little could they know just how wrong they were. A seemingly petty conflict in Bosnia soon snowballed into the first truly global conflict.

David Thompson's beguiling documentary on Renoir's life and work, made for the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Born 100 years ago, Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is considered by many the greatest of film directors. Omnibus presents a two-part investigation of Renoir's life and career, coinciding with a short season of his films on BBC2.
The son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean's career began in the silent era but his most acclaimed films date from the 1930s. His films are said to reflect his father's love of nature and deep humanity, and have long been an inspiration to other directors as well as audiences.

The compelling story of the Chins - the Chinese-Jamaican family behind Studio 17 established above Randy's Records at 17 North Parade in downtown Kingston.

After expatriate American jockey Danny Arnold double-crosses ruthless gambler Louis Bork, he flees Italy with his adoring son Joe, who isn't aware of his father's lies and corruption. While in France he begins a relationship with a beautiful French nightclub singer and buys a problematic racehorse that no one seems to be able to train. After Joe suggests that the horse has a future as a jumper, Danny converts him to the steeplechase and turns him into a consistent winner. When Bork shows up and tells him he must lose the big race or die, Danny must weigh his life against his son's faith that he has become a man of honor.

Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco's best friend and the son of a leftist leader. Paco runs away from home taking a gun from his father. While the Commander initiates the search of his son accompanied by the father of Urko, he begins to discover an unknown world and little by little important changes take place in him.

Juliette, une jeune fille de vingt ans, tombe enceinte et décide de garder son bébé envers et contre tous. Contre Mathias, qui se sent trop jeune pour assumer son rôle de père. Contre sa mère Julia, ancienne star enfant, kleptomane et névrosée, qui veut garder sa fille pour elle-même…

An insight into the criminal mind, this is a major series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of the century. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on 26 crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century.
True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem.

Edward II ruled England at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. He was the son of Edward I and father of Edward III. History has preserved a better memory of these two other kings. Why?