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Canadian Jim Parks loses his equipment in the sea when his landing craft hits a sandbank. Swimming ashore, he recalls helping to retrieve the dead and wounded from the water line.

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David Dimbleby presents live coverage from the Cenotaph. The royal family, the government and the armed forces will gather in Westminster for the National Service of Remembrance. The ceremony this year has been adapted for social distancing, and the traditional march-past will not take place. The two-minute silence at 11 o'clock will be followed by wreath-laying at the foot of the Cenotaph as the nation remembers all those who died serving their country.

Tells the extraordinary unknown story of how the Beatles helped to destroy the USSR. In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatles. He arranged their first live TV appearances on a local show in Manchester and watched as the Fab Four phenomenon swept the world. Twenty-five years later while making films in Russia, Woodhead became aware of how, even though they were never able to play in the Soviet Union, the Beatles' legend had soaked into the lives of a generation of kids.

Master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with Marcello Mastroianni as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director who, overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken, plunges into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque."

Live coverage from the Cenotaph in Whitehall of the nation's Remembrance Sunday commemorations, one hundred years to the day from the end of World War One. Her Majesty the Queen observes, while the Prince of Wales and other senior members of the royal family take part in the traditional wreath-laying ceremony. The prime minister, leading politicians, representatives of many of the world's religions, dignitaries from the Commonwealth and military leaders join thousands of veterans for the Two Minute Silence, followed by the Service of Remembrance and the Royal British Legion's March Past.

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the nation. From Henry VIII to Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, this three-part series re-introduces our past royals not just as powerful potentates, but as human beings, each with their own very personal problems of biology and psychology.

A 3-DVD Collection of More Than 75 Early Films by Alice Guy • Louis Feuillade • Léonce Perret.
The invention of cinema – and its growth into a sophisticated art form – are vividly brought to life in this massive collection of films from the early years of the influential Gaumont Film Company. Each disc is devoted to one of Gaumont’s artistic directors, who oversaw all film production at the studio, and profoundly influenced not only the identity of the studio but also the evolution of the cinema itself.