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2) The revenant
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Ent
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy star in this award-winning epic adventure based on real events. While on an expedition in the American wilderness, explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) falls victim to a near-fatal bear attack and is left for dead by the rest of his team, including his friend and confidant John Fitzgerald (Hardy). As the barely alive Glass struggles to find help and shelter in the inhospitable winter, the love and longing for his home and...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night in London an 18 year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-nineties north London, 'The Lesser Bohemians' is a story about love and innocence, joy and discovery, the grip of the past and the struggle to be new again.
5) Heartstone
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war.
6) The flood
Publisher
Curzon Artificial Eye
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
British drama starring Lena Headey, Ivanno Jeremiah and Iain Glen. The film follows refugee Haile (Jeremiah) as he attempts to seek asylum in the UK, where the final part of his arduous journey entails convincing British immigration officer Wendy (Headey) that he should be allowed into the country.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
How many times did Dr John Watson tantalise us with passing references to a mystery which his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in full? In these original adventures Bert Coules has imaginatively fleshed out eight such unrecorded cases.
Publisher
EiV
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon star in this historical drama directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. The film follows inventors Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Shannon) as they compete to create and market the first sustainable electrical energy system in the US. The cast also includes Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland and Katherine Waterston.
Publisher
Reel2Reel
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
British crime drama directed by William Kerley. Following his escape from Dartmoor Prison, masterminded by the Kray twins (Scott Wickes and Ben Osborne), violent criminal Frank Mitchell (Diarmaid Murtagh) is hiding out in a flat in East London along with his minder John (Morgan Watkins) and hostess Lisa (Elen Rhys). However, as the authorities close in on Frank and his attempts at a parole hearing go unanswered the Krays realise that assisting with...
Publisher
Signature Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Simon Rumley directs this crime drama based on two of London's most notorious gangsters from the late 1930s. Despite once being friends and partners Jack 'Spot' Comer (Terry Stone) and Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) become sworn enemies leading to years of brutal vengeance attacks and mayhem in the East End of London.
Publisher
Dazzler
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Terry Loane directs this made-for-TV drama based on true events in 1926 in which well-known crime writer Agatha Christie (Ruth Bradley) must solve a real life murder when a woman is bludgeoned to death on a train. The cast also includes Stacha Hicks, Blake Harrison and Dean Andrews.
14) Woke
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Français
Description
All ten episodes from the first season of the French gay-themed drama. The show follows 22-year-old Hicham Alaoui (Mehdi Meskar) as he moves to Lyon to start a new life and embrace his true identity. He goes in search of LGBT activist Thibaut (Eric Pucheu), the only gay man he knows. But as Hicham discovers more about Thibaut and his fellow activists, he begins to question their methods and motives and becomes more determined to forge his own way....
15) Ray & Liz
Publisher
Drakes Avenue Pictures
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Richard Billingham writes and directs this British drama centred on a couple who live on a Dudley council estate. The film begins in 2016 with alcoholic Ray (Justin Salinger/Patrick Romer) looking back on his failed marriage to chain-smoker Liz (Ella Smith/Deirdre Kelly) and reflecting on the tough times they experienced trying to raise their two sons, Jason (Callum Slater/Joshua Millard-Lloyd) and Richard (Jacob Tuton/Sam Plant), in the 1980s.
Publisher
High Fliers Video Distribution
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Low budget British historical drama set during WWII, written and directed by Terry Lee Coker. Polish midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska (Noeleen Comsikey) is brought to Auschwitz concentration camp where she meets Josef Mengele (Michael McKell) and is put to work in the camp hospital. As Mengele experiments with the pregnant woman and children Stanislawa does all she can to safeguard the newly born infants and their mothers.
17) Tides
Publisher
AX1 Films
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
British drama co-written and directed by Tupaq Felber. The film follows four friends as they reunite to take a trip down the River Wey on a canal boat together. With actor Jon (Jon Foster) experiencing a personal crisis following a tragedy, his three friends try to cure his ails and escape their own problems by taking a holiday, but as they drift down the river they each find themselves confronting the paths their respective lives have taken.
18) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the...
Author
Publisher
Hay House UK
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
William Roache has been an actor on Britain's best-loved soap opera, Coronation Street, for over 48 years - making him the world's longest- serving soap star. As a young actor William auditioned for a TV drama that was likely to be running for only a few weeks. Now, almost 50 years later, he is the only original cast member and the soap's success has established him as a household name. Over the course of that time, William's character Ken Barlow...
20) Paradise lost
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The epic poem 'Paradise Lost' tells the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, their temptation by Satan, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
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