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BBC - Seven Ages of Britain (2010) (Repost) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Jan. 8, 2013

David Dimbleby charts a landmark history of Britain’s greatest art and artefacts over 2000 years in Seven Ages of Britain.
Produced in partnership with The Open University, Seven Ages of Britain looks at our extraordinary past through the Arts - both as treasures that have often played a decisive part in events and as marvels of their age.

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BBC - Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 2 (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Dec. 3, 2013

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

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BBC - Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 31, 2014

BBC Four's celebration of film music begins with Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, a three-part documentary presented by writer, composer and film music aficionado Neil Brand. Neil tells his alternative history of cinema, putting the soundtrack centre stage. The series features some of the biggest directors of past and present, including Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, alongside film scores of cult and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, Inception, Hitchcock's Psycho, and Gladiator.

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BBC - Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies (2013) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 1, 2019

BBC Four's celebration of film music begins with Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, a three-part documentary presented by writer, composer and film music aficionado Neil Brand. Neil tells his alternative history of cinema, putting the soundtrack centre stage. The series features some of the biggest directors of past and present, including Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, alongside film scores of cult and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, Inception, Hitchcock's Psycho, and Gladiator.

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Smithsonian Ch. - Eight Days that Made Rome: Series 1 (2017) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Aug. 27, 2019

Award-winning historian Bettany Hughes is on a mission that will take her across Italy's ancient sites and into the psyches of the emperors, gladiators, and generals of the Roman Empire. Explore the rise and fall of one of history's most extraordinary reigns, defined by eight critical days. From the defeat of the Carthaginian Empire to Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon River to Constantine's conversion to Christianity, explore this remarkable period and meet its key figures

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Ogro (1979) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 30, 2011

This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir apparent General Carrero Blanco. The General was to have been kidnapped by the Basque separatists, but when that proved too difficult, they arranged to bomb his car (with him in it) to smithereens. In order to do this, they had to dig a tunnel under a city street. The ensuing explosion blew the car over the roof of a nearby house.

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Anthony, Warrior of God (2006) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 4, 2011

The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends much of his life in and near Padua, a city run by usurers. Anthony offers protection and friendship to Folco, at one time a petty criminal and acolyte to the usurers, later falsely accused of murder. Anthony's teaching and his spiritual strength lead to changes in the character of Padua and an end to usury. He became its patron Saint soon after his death, and 32 years later, his casket is opened and his tongue remains intact.

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Orchestra Rehearsal (1978) Prova d'orchestra [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Sept. 3, 2016

Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
A Film by Federico Fellini
DVD9 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | 01:09:16 | 4,69 Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house

The burnt-out visions of the catastrophic Casanova behind him, Federico Fellini has returned to film making in a new guise. Orchestra Rehearsal, a 70-minute movie originally made for Italian television, marks Fellini's debut as a political artist. Perhaps the change was inevitable. This director's latent pessimism matches perfectly the gloomy social landscape of chaotic contemporary Italy. Or so one might hope. In Rehearsal, Fellini is so enthralled by his polemic that he forgets to let his imagination take flight. A film that should have been…

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A Room With A View (1985) Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Feb. 6, 2014

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper young British ladies is compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone – in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith). While in Italy, the ladies make the acquaintance of a wide variety of personalities; the most fascinating of their fellow tourists – at least in Lucy's eyes – is free-spirited George Emerson (Julian Sands). Aware that her cousin is becoming too familiar with Emerson, Charlotte demands that Lucy return to England posthaste. Lucy complacently settles for the tiresomely traditional courtship of nerdish Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis) – and then Mr. Emerson moves into the neighborhood. Lucy now finds herself on the horns of a dilemma…

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Channel 4 - Food Unwrapped: Series 5 (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 18, 2015

In this new Series, Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton and Matt Tebbut present the food and science series that travels the world to lift the lid on what's really in the food we eat.

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