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- DirectorNick MurphyStarsMichael SheenJames WilbyMichael MaloneyIn July AD 64 a fire, which lasts for six days, destroys almost all of Rome. Many of the senators think it would be impossible to rebuild the city, and suggest that the capital should be moved to Naples or Capua. Nero is irresolute and asks his mentor, the philosopher Seneca, about his advice. Seneca says that in a crisis great emperors rule as gods rule, and if Nero does that he can become a god himself. Nero decides to rebuild Rome and at the same time make the city more magnificent than ever before. He has a great vision of a city characterized by art and beauty, but the costs of such a project are enormous. Tigellinus, head of Rome's security force, advises Nero to robe the temples. For most Romans this is a shocking sacrilege, and when Nero starts it he gets into a collision course with the senate. In April AD 65 a group of senators plan to murder Nero, but a slave reveals the conspiracy, and all of them are killed. In one move all political opposition are wiped out, and Nero decides to celebrate this with the biggest arts' festival in Roman history, with himself topping the bill. When Nero performs in public as an actor he breaks another rule for how emperors should behave, but no one dares to criticize him. Afterwards Nero's wife Poppea happens to mention that he dropped the scepter during his performance. Nero gets furious and kills her. In AD 66 he moves his court to Greece, where he orders a young male slave to be castrated and transformed into a woman, thus becoming Nero's new Poppea. To get more money for his building program Nero forces the richest men in the empire to commit suicide and leave their wealth to him. In December AD 67 the governors of Gaul and Spain rebel against Nero. He returns to Rome, where he states that he's going to meet the enemy with an army of prostitutes and himself singing in front of them. In spring AD 68 the senate declares Nero an official enemy of the state and condemns him to death. 9th June AD 68 Nero commits suicide.
- DirectorNick GreenStarsSean PertweeAlex FernsJohn ShrapnelJulius Caesar's rise to power, from his military success to his decision to return home and seize power from his old ally Pompey.
- DirectorChristopher SpencerStarsJames D'ArcyGreg HicksDavid Hinton132 BC tells the story of how a Roman politician nearly brought down the foundations of the Roman republic.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsEd StoppardJonathan CoyJonathan HydeAD 66, following the death of Nero, Josephus is leads a Jewish Revolt and only General Vespasian has the strength and will to sort out the empire.
- DirectorTim DunnStarsDavid ThrelfallJohn BlakeyJohn WoodvineHow the persecution of the Christians ended and the world was changed forever by the hand of one man - Constantine the Great.
- 200659m7.1 (106)TV EpisodeDirectorArif NurmohamedStarsPip TorrensAlastair MackenzieMark LockyerHow the greatest empire gained a useless emperor, how the barbarians destroyed the foundations of city... How Rome fell, because of one fatal mistake.
- DirectorPhil Alden RobinsonStarsNicholas AaronKirk AcevedoDoug AllenEasy Company goes through training under the leadership of a captain who relentlessly pushes them to their limits but may be limited as a leader in the field.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsNicholas AaronKirk AcevedoPhilip BarantiniEasy Company paratroopers jump behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day and struggle to reunite in hostile territory.
- DirectorMikael SalomonStarsNicholas AaronDoug AllenPhilip BarantiniEasy Company takes on German troops in the French town of Carentan, and the battle takes its toll on one soldier who is badly traumatized by the experience.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsNicholas AaronKirk AcevedoDoug AllenWith the addition of many new men, Easy Company heads to Holland to participate in Operation Market Garden and prepare an Allied route into Germany, but they meet stiff German resistance.
- DirectorTom HanksStarsNicholas AaronKirk AcevedoDoug AllenWinters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack, and is haunted by his conscience after shooting a teenage German SS soldier.
- DirectorDavid LelandStarsKirk AcevedoDoug AllenWilliam ArmstrongIn the dead of winter, the men of Easy Company fend off frostbite and hunger - in addition to the enemy - while holding the line in a forest outside of Bastogne. Meanwhile, exhausted medic Eugene Roe finds friendship with a Belgian nurse.
- DirectorDavid FrankelStarsNicholas AaronKirk AcevedoDoug AllenEasy Company remains in the Ardennes Forest preparing for an inevitable attack on German forces in the town of Foy. However, morale is low due to cold weather, constant shelling, poor leadership, and numerous casualties.
- DirectorTony ToStarsNicholas AaronMartin ArnoEion BaileyEasy Company is in Hagenau in February 1945, where they prepare for a night patrol mission to capture German prisoners. The patrol includes one veteran who is despised for missing Bastogne and a new lieutenant fresh out of West Point.
- DirectorDavid FrankelStarsDoug AllenNicholas AaronEion BaileyAs the Allies move into Germany and the war comes closer to an end, disillusionment and anger set in for Easy Company - until they stumble onto a concentration camp abandoned by the German military.
- DirectorMikael SalomonStarsNicholas AaronDoug AllenDavid AndrewsAs the Germans surrender, it appears that the hard days for Easy Company are over when they are stationed in Austria. However, they soon learn that those soldiers without enough service points will be sent to fight in Japan.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtElisabeth TrissenaarKarin BaalPart 1 introduces Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht), a man who vows to go straight after serving four years in prison for the beating death of his prostitute girlfriend.
- 198059m8.1 (345)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtElisabeth TrissenaarAxel BauerIn Part 2, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) searches for work---and gets a job selling a Nazi newspaper.
- 198059m8.0 (318)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtElisabeth TrissenaarHark BohmOur hero Franz Biberkopf tries to live from selling shoelaces going from door to door. Here he accidentally runs into his old lover Eva, which makes him so overwhelmed that he runs to the nearest flower shop and says something along the lines of: "I want to buy flowers that should express that the past just keeps following you; and days go by driving you on and on to a place where there is no future." [Or as paraphrased by Laurie Anderson: "Days go by Endlessly. And they just keep going by endlessly; Endlessly pulling you Into the future."] And the florist answers: "White Lillies" - the flower of death. And instead, Frantz buys red roses - and walks to another woman he has met along the route.
- 198059m7.7 (299)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtKarlheinz BraunPeter BretzPart 4. Retreating into solitude, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) spends his days in a boarding house.
- 198058m8.0 (285)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtWolfgang BathkeFranz BuchrieserIn Part 5, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is befriended by the leader of a gang of thieves.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtHerb AndressFranz BuchrieserFranz is the accomplice in a heist and ends up injured after an accident during the getaway.
- 198058m7.9 (269)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtFranz BuchrieserIvan DesnyPart 7. A recovering Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) refuses help from Bruno.
- 198058m7.8 (260)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtRoger FritzPeter KuiperPart 8. Franz is dismayed to make a startling discovery about Sonia.
- 198059m7.8 (260)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtBarbara SukowaFritz SchediwyPart 9. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) reconciles with Mieze, and talks politics with a new acquaintance.
- 198059m7.9 (274)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtBarbara SukowaBrigitte MiraMieze reveals she can't have children to Franz, and when Eva tells her she will have a child with Franz that Mieze can then raise, the trio's dynamics shift and reveals further darkness.
- 198059m8.1 (273)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtBarbara SukowaGottfried JohnIn Part 11, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) gets involved with a gang that steals clothes from a warehouse.
- 198058m8.1 (272)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBarbara SukowaGottfried JohnGünter LamprechtPart 12. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) introduces Mieze to his cafe friends, where a chance meeting with Reinhold leads to tragic consequences.
- 198059m8.3 (266)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtFranz BuchrieserBrigitte MiraThe exterior and the inside and the mystery of the fear of the mystery.
- Episode: (1980)19801h 52m8.3 (309)TV EpisodeDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsGünter LamprechtHanna SchygullaBarbara SukowaConclusion. Reality gives way to a dream, in which Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is haunted by visions of those who have both loved and betrayed him.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsTom HollanderSamuel WestRupert Penry-JonesBlunt, Burgess, Philby and Maclean meet at Cambridge university and bond through their common leaning towards communism, which they see as the only alternative to fascism.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsToby StephensMarcel IuresTom HollanderBurgess, Blunt, Philby and Maclean, still ardent communists and working for the KGB, must follow instructions and cover their political leanings. They now have to convince the powers that be that they have outgrown their juvenile leanings towards socialism and become members of the British establishment to become moles on the inside. Philby is sent to Spain to report on the civil war, made to deny any German involvement, and Blunt gains the confidence of the British royal family.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsRupert Penry-JonesAnna-Louise PlowmanDarrell D'SilvaChronicling the story of the most infamous double agents in British history. Anthony Blunt is sent to Germany to retrieve sensitive documents.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsTom HollanderSamuel WestRonald PickupBurgess and Maclean are becoming liabilities for Soviet intelligence, and Philby has his hands full protecting the two of them before they can be pulled out and relocated to Moscow, while CIA man Angleton is becoming increasingly suspicious of Philby himself.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsMartin TurnerRufus SewellIan McDiarmidIn 1660 after years in exile, Charles II is restored to the throne of England but is abandoned by his friend, the Duke of Buckingham.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsRufus SewellShirley HendersonIan McDiarmidA fiery comet in the sky is rumoured to portend doom on Charlie's reign.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsDavid McKailRufus SewellChristian CoulsonA plot is unearthed against the King. Anti-Papist fury threatens the King's position.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsRufus SewellRob JarvisGraham McTavishAs Protestant dissent rises, the king tries to silence his enemies once and for all.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellIt's Anne's thirteenth birthday and her father Otto gives her a checked-covered notebook which she decides to use as a diary. The situation for Jews in occupied Holland worsens and Otto makes secret plans to hide his family.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellFollowing the increased persecution of the Jews, the Frank family have gone into hiding in the annexe above Otto Frank's business premises. Anne finds that her diary has become a useful safety valve.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellEighteen months have passed since the Frank family went into hiding and they make a special effort to celebrate Edith Frank's birthday. But their fears grow as the Germans begin to make surprise raids on houses in the area.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellThe Frank family and their friends have now been hiding more than two years. Anne's parents try to put an end to her relationship with Peter. Before she can make amends with her parents, another drama breaks out in the warehouse below.
- DirectorTom HooperStarsHelen MirrenJeremy IronsPatrick MalahideApproaching middle age, Queen Elizabeth is conscious that she has never produced an heir to continue her line. Her advisers see plots and treachery all around her, most of it centered around her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. Her advisers have a plan that they believe will secure the British throne and weaken their deadliest enemy, Spain. They propose that she marry the Duke of Anjou, brother to the King of France. This would preclude an alliance between France and Spain and drive a wedge through the Catholic world. She reluctantly agrees, even accepting the advice of the Earl of Leicester, a lover she had at one time banished from her court. The Duke's sudden death leads to the Franco-Spanish alliance they had feared. When the Spanish Armada is defeated England is safe but the Queen suffers a tragic personal loss.
- DirectorTom HooperStarsHelen MirrenHugh DancyToby JonesNow well into middle age, there is no longer any concern about Queen Elizabeth producing an heir and the focus now shifts to deciding who will ascend to the throne when she dies. The Queen has taken a keen interest in the young and handsome Earl of Essex and is a bit jealous when it becomes apparent that one of her ladies-in-waiting also has an interest in him. Essex gains a great deal of influence with the Queen, eventually obtaining a seat on he Council. She forgives him when he oversteps the mark and has her personal physician arrested as a traitor. She is livid however when she learns that he has impregnated one of her ladies-in-waiting. When he leads a rebellion, not against the Queen but against her advisers, he goes too far and his head is put on the chopping block. Her advisers meanwhile make plans to have King James VI of Scotland succeed her.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsRebecca NightEmma StansfieldTony GuilfoyleOn the death of her parents innocent young Northerner Fanny Hill meets her worldly friend Esther,who invites her down to London to get a job. Esther introduces her to Mrs Brown,who runs a brothel but Fanny is so naïve that she has no idea what she is expected to do. When confronted by a regular customer,the rude and choleric Mr Crofts she is appalled by his demands and Mrs Brown has to cover for her. Some time later at a party she meets handsome young Charles and the pair fall idyllically in love,tenderly undressing each other for Fanny's first time with a man. They plan to marry but need Charles' father's permission. Unfortunately he turns out to be Mr Crofts,who is anything but accommodating and sends the boy off to work in India,leaving Fanny alone.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsRebecca NightHugo SpeerAlex RobertsonWith Charles gone Fanny becomes the kept mistress of the older but attractive Mr H,a man from a wealthy family who gives her a good life-style but is extremely possessive. He wants her love but she still pines for Charles and so,to punish her,has sex with the maid. In retaliation Fanny allows frustrated young footman William to pleasure her but Mr H catches them and leaves Fanny. She then gets work with Mrs Cole,a rival to Mrs Jones,whose bordello is at the back of an apparently respectable hat shop. By now an experienced prostitute Fanny is Mrs Cole's beautiful star attraction,introducing the sons of wealthy patrons to the joys of sex and breaking hearts on the way. But Mrs Cole is closed down and Fanny is on the streets. Fortunately she rescues elderly Mr Goodyear from footpads and he takes her in,treating her as a daughter rather than a lover and leaving her his fortune when he dies. Fanny decides to return home but on the way her carriage is stopped by a young man on horseback. Could this be her beloved Charles,whom she had presumed lost at sea?
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsElaine CassidySally HawkinsImelda StauntonConman Richard Rivers enlists the help of petty thief Sue Trinder in his plot to rob a wealthy heiress.
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsElaine CassidySally HawkinsImelda StauntonSue knows she cannot tell Maud the truth - that she loves her or that Rivers is planning to send her to a madhouse.
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsElaine CassidySally HawkinsImelda StauntonWhile Sue is imprisoned in the madhouse Maud finds out the truth. Sue manages to escape but wants revenge on Maud.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenThe succession to the crown of England is in doubt and causes King Henry's daughter and nephew to compete for the throne. Church politics see Philip, a monk, elected the new prior, which leaves him indebted to Deacon Waleran.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenTom Builder, his children, Ellen and her son Jack arrive at Kingsbridge Priory in the hope of finding work. The church is in need of repair but Prior Philip has no money and is unable to hire them. After the church burns down, Tom presents a plan for a new a new style of church with pointed arches and large windows. Philip decides to ask the King for funds and learns a hard lesson in politics after making a deal, or so he thought, with Percy Hamleigh's scheming wife. His dealings with the Hamleighs also earns him the enmity of Bishop Waleran. With Philip away from the Priory, Tom's son accuses Ellen of witchcraft and she is arrested. Valeran is most keen for the trial to begin and it's revealed she may be privy to a deeply held secret she revealed to him during confession. Meanwhile William Hamleigh, son of the new Earl of Shiring visits the castle and assaults Bartholomew daughter Aliena. She swears she will get her revenge and restore the title and property to her brother. In France, Maude prepares for battle.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenConstruction of the new church at Kingsbridge Priory is underway. They have too few men and Prior Philip hopes the sale of this year's wool will give them the money they need to hire more workers. When the time comes to quarry the stone William Hamleigh prevents Tom Builder from starting working leading to a major confrontation with the monks of the Priory. Meanwhile, Aliena and her brother Richard travel to Winchester to witness their father's execution and plead for mercy. King Stephen refuses but does offer Richard a place in his army. Aliena comes up with a scheme to make enough money to buy Richard the horse and armor he will need to be a Knight. King Stephen has also been having nightmares and a visit to Kingsbridge Priory to view the progress of the church construction pushes him over the edge.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenWilliam applies to have his father's title of Earl transferred to him, and discovers a mysterious knight is also a rival for the Earldom. King Stephen, frightened by Jack's appearance, orders an assassin to kill him. The battle between King Stephen and Maud sees each side's leader being taken hostage. Philip is tortured into a confession when Waleran tells Maud that he is the man who betrayed Earl Bartholomew.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenPrincess Maude seems to have gained the upper hand having defeated King Stephen on the battlefield and taken him prisoner. However, her brother, Gloucester, has been taken prisoner by the other side, and a prisoner exchange is arranged. It doesn't go well and the self-styled Empress Maude and King Stephen are again at war. Philip's life is saved when his brother unexpectedly arrives in Lincoln. He manages to get access to the quarry to complete the cathedral and also a license to hold a market. Aliena's suggestion that they hold a fleece fair in direct competition with Shiring has tragic results. Jack and a jealous Alfred continue to fight and bicker and force Tom to choose between them. Bishop Waleran reveals his true ambition.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneMatthew MacfadyenEddie RedmayneAs a result of his journeys, Jack has learned how to fulfill Tom Builder's dream of a cathedral filled with light. Aliena tracks Jack by following the trail of his carvings. Waleran offers Philip a new position, but it means that Philip must always obey Waleran. Kingsbridge becomes prosperous again which infuriates Regan and William, who plan an attack that is met with resistance from Richard, Jack and Philip.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenEight years later, Jack's fixation with the cathedral leaves him little time or energy for anything else, while Aliena's fixation with the distant Earldom of Shiring has married her to Alfred, a man she hates. Waleran and Alfred develop a plot to get rid of Jack for good and it seems to be working until evidence comes to light that makes all wrongs rectified.
- DirectorSergio Mimica-GezzanStarsIan McShaneRufus SewellMatthew MacfadyenThe war is over and Maud has returned to France leaving King Stephen once again unchallenged. Richard returns to Kingsbridge just after William Hamleigh's attack on the market. Aliena has lost everything and can no longer support Richard's knighthood. Alfred sees an opportunity and asks Aliena to marry him, promising to support Richard as well. After Tom Builder's funeral, Alfred also offers himself as master builder promising to build a vaulted roof made of stone. When the day to bless the church arrives 8 months later, tragedy strikes leaving many dead. Events also reveal Aliena's betrayal of Alfred who promptly throws her out of the house. The tragedy also has an unwelcome effect on Bishop Waleran and Prior Philip. Jack meanwhile has long ago left Kingsbridge and gone off to France to find his father's family. Now without a place to live, Aliena sets off to find him.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsTom BellJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhIn 1935 Berlin, the Weisses celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi government job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsTom BellJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhInga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents don't want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final Solution. Moses and Dr. Weiss are caught when the Nazis overrun Poland. Helena rescues Rudi from a patrol. Berta joins her husband in the Warsaw ghetto. Rudi and Helena escape to Russia.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhRosemary HarrisRudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level Nazi conference in which Heydrich gives Hilter's orders of the final solution for all the Jews in Europe. Karl Weiss has been transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp which the Germans use to display to the Red Cross officials and representatives of neutral countries that Jews are being treated kindly. Karl learns that his fellow artists in the camp are creating propaganda paintings by day while secretly drawing images of the brutal conditions of the camp by night.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsTom BellJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhErik Dorf complains to the other S.S. leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and other camps. Inga asks Muller to denounce her and have her sent to Karl at Theresienstadt. Felscher sells four of the secret drawings done by him, Frey and Karl, which depict the brutal conditions at Theresienstadt, to a Czech gendarme, which the S.S. get a hold of. Felscher, Frey and Karl are called in for questioning and then tortured, where Karl is the only one who survives and is told he is being sent to Auschwitz. He sees Inga one last time, where she tells him she is carrying his child. Karl dies the day Auschwitz is liberated. In Warsaw, Josef is caught for setting up the clinic to act as a front to keep people from getting on the train headed to Treblinka, and him and Berta with Mr. and Mrs. Lowy are sent to Auschwitz, where soon after they are sent to the gas chambers. Moses joins the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and they are successful in holding back 7,000 German soldiers over a three-week period, until they are forced out via a gas bomb and are shot. In the Ukraine, Uncle Sasha's unit attempts to shoot up a convoy, but Helena is shot and killed and Rudi is knocked unconscious. Rudi wakes up in the Sobibor camp, where he learns of a breakout being planned by the other prisoners and joins with them. He survives to the end of the war and is reunited with Inga in Theresienstadt, where he learns that Inga has given birth to a son, who is two years old named Josef, after Karl's father. Rudi is asked to lead a group of Greek orphans into Palestine. Erik Dorf is placed in custody by the Americans and after a brief questioning commits suicide via a cyanide pill hidden in the hem of his pants. Uncle Kurt Dorf visits Marta, Peter and Laura Dorf and tells them what really happened to Erik, despite an unsigned letter Marta is reading commending Erik's service to the Reich. He then tells them what Erik and the other SS men really were - mechanical killers. In response, Marta tells Uncle Kurt they never want to see him again. Uncle Kurt says he will not be silent about the truth.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsRoger Ashton-GriffithsChris BarnesDavid BarrassIvanhoe is tortured in the prison and later released from an Austrian prison after refusing to betray King Richard. But rumors spread around that Ivanhoe did betray the king so Ivanhoe decides to go clear his name.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsRoger Ashton-GriffithsDavid BarrassNiven BoydPrince John holds a tournament to demonstrate Norman superiority. A disguised Ivanhoe enters it and faces the flower of Norman knighthood.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsRoger Ashton-GriffithsPatrick BaladiDavid BarrassThe Norman knights decide to kidnap the Lady Rowena. However, several complications arise that makes matters both better and worse than they planned.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsRoger Ashton-GriffithsDavid BarrassNick BrimbleAn injured Ivanhoe along with his father, Lady Rowena, Rebecca, and others are prisoners in a Norman castle. King Richard gathers Robin of Locksley's outlaw band for an attack to free them.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsDavid BarrassRalph BrownJimmy ChisholmBrian de Bois-Guilbert snatches Rebecca and hides her in a nearby abbey. Lucas de Beaumanoir arrives there a short time later. If he discovers Rebecca, he could have her burned as a witch.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsChris BarnesDavid BarrassRalph BrownRebecca's innocence is to be determined by trial by combat. Brian de Bois-Guilbert, who loves Rebecca, is chosen as Champion for the court. It is his duty to fight his best. However, if he wins, Rebecca will be killed. A loss means he dies.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonIn 1940 England, feminist poet Vita Sackville-West gets a phone call from Violet Keppel Trefusis which triggers a flashback to 1917 where Violet first came for a visit at Vita's country house. Violet is dismayed to find her gallant, heroic Vita ensconced in a cozy marriage to diplomat Harold Nicolson, her wild spirit seemingly tamed by her roles as wife and mother to their two young sons, Ben and Nigel. Vita loves her husband, and values him as a great companion. When Harold tells Vita of his past sexual dalliances with men, his disclosure opens the door for her to rekindle her relationship with Violet - not out of revenge, but out of a desire for equal freedom to explore her own same-sex desires for her best friend that she has experienced since her teenage years, and the same goes for Violet.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonVita and Violet's romance grows which leads to Vita dressing up as a man (an injured soldier on leave from the front) and meeting at hotels and boarding houses in London to continue their romantic tryst. However, Vita continues to have a loving and respectful relationship with Harold, but she doesn't hesitate to spend his money for spontaneous trysts with Violet. And she refuses to lie about her relationship with Violet, or give any false hope to Harold that it is less important to her than her marriage to him. Harold's willingness to accept his wife's love affair with another woman shows him borne of his desire to give her the utmost freedom. In conversations with male friends, Harold admits to jealousy, but chalks the affair up to Vita's inability to separate emotion from sex. He feels some pity for her, as her passionate nature seems to cause her pain, while his ability to detach spares him the same. For Violet, any marriage is a requirement to be avoided for as long as possible, and she doesn't hide this fact from her persistent but naïve suitor, Denys Trefusis, with whom she, more than once, unceremoniously turns him away in favor of Vita. But despite Violet's careless treatment of Trefusis, he truly cares for her. So willing is he to submit to her desires that he even agrees to a completely chaste marriage.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonWith the end of World War I in 1918, Vita returns to her family home to her husband and sons. However, she continues to write and correspond with Violet, who is still being courted by Trefusis who is clearly devastated by his inability to win her over with gushing adoration and endless indulgences. Vita's mother, Lady Sackville, strongly disapproves of her dalliance with Violet and her neglect of Harold and the boys. After another romantic tryst with Violet, Vita learns that she has decided to accept Trefusis marriage proposal which sends her into a fit of jealous rage and practically forces herself on Violet one evening. This event leads to Violet getting married to Denys Trefusis after agreeing to his arrangement of a celibate marriage.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonIn 1921, Violet is unhappy with her celibate marital life. Vita manages to get in touch with her to persuade her to leave her husband and run away with her, first to Paris and then to Greece where they can live out a life together. Trefusis relays this to Harold and they team up together to travel to Paris in a last ditched effort to stop their spouses from making what might be a mistake. Once Harold and Denys track down Vita and Violet at their hotel room, Harold tries to persuade Vita to return to him not for his sake but their children's as well. Vita initially refuses, but once she learns that Violet has in fact been having sexual relations with Trefusis, her jealousy once again takes over and she ends her romance with Violet for good, leaving her heartbroken. Both couples, Vita and Harold, Violet and Denys Trefusis return to England and agree to stay out of each others lives. In 1940, after her phone conversation with Violet, Vita agrees to meet with her to remember their times they had together and Harold agrees to let Vita do so. In 1962 after Vita's death, the aged Harold looks through old letters that Vita wrote to Violet and comes to realize that his wife did love Violet and always had that desire towards her lover.
- DirectorWalter van der KampStarsBob De LangePleuni TouwWillem NijholtOtto van Oudijck is a Dutch resident in Laboewangi, Java around 1900. His job is to keep the local regents in line, including one in particular from Ngadjiwa who suffers from gambling and drinking debts. Because he is so obsessed with his job, Van Oudijck fails to realize that his vain and self observed second wife Leonie is having an affair with Theo, his son from a previous marriage.
- DirectorWalter van der KampStarsBob De LangePleuni TouwWillem NijholtEverybody in Laboewangi is gossiping about Leonie van Oudijck and her adulterous ways. Even her husband is being informed by way of anonymous letters. After warning young playboy Addy de Luce to be careful in his relationship with her step-daughter Doddi, Leonie proceeds to seduce him herself. Otto finds himself forced to fire the regent of Ngadjiwa on account of drunken behavior.
- DirectorWalter van der KampStarsBob De LangePleuni TouwWillem NijholtLeonie keeps alternating between two lovers until suddenly unexplainable things start occurring in and around the Resident's mansion. An invisible force which the Indonesians call 'Goena Goena' appears to spit Sirijuice at Leonie while she is bathing. Otto also experiences a constant and ominous drumming sound as well as moving mirrors and glasses that shatter all by themselves. However, he refuses to leave the house, even after his wife and children have relocated to Soerabaja.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsGemma ArtertonHans MathesonRuth JonesParson Tringham tells no one that John Durbeyfield's family is an impoverished branch of the noble, once mighty D'Urbervilles. However 'celebrating' in the pub, bad heart and bad luck end up completely ruining the family finances. His wife finally convinces daughter Tess to swallow her pride and seek help from the D'Urbervilles on a nearby estate. The heir, Alec D'Urberville, takes to her, arranges a job on the family's poultry farm and becomes her family's benefactor. Lost in the forest after a dance, he takes advantage of her. To save her honor and independence, she decides to leave.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsGemma ArtertonEddie RedmayneRuth JonesAfter Tess is refused a graveyard burial for her child, she leaves home and becomes a milkmaid. The surprising perk of the job is the presence of Angel Clare, son of a parson. He is learning the farm trade there, planning to emigrate, his parents are planning to set him up overseas. The true gentleman is the dream of all the girls, but only has eyes for Tess. She is as smitten after accidentally seeing him sleeping in the buff. He braves his mother's objections to wanting to marry a girl beneath the family's station, unlike Mercy Chant. Tess, at first, dares not accept on account of Mercy, a colleague and her past. As he doesn't object to her true genealogy, she reconsiders. Only when they are packed to leave, she discovers her last letter of confidences wasn't opened.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsGemma ArtertonEddie RedmayneHans MathesonAfter Tess is married to Angel Clare, he tells her a 48 hours affair he had once, and she him the dark secret from the unread letter. He can't accept it, but as it happened before their wedding the law doesn't accept it as ground for divorce. Angel sets off for Brazil alone. Mercy won't have a bar of him, Retti would follow him but by her own admission she can't love him as much as Tess, so he makes up his mind to go alone. Tess returns home, then seeks another farm maid employ, accepting the worst job at Groby's, under his cruel, jealous bailiff. On the road she meets Alec D'Urberville, now a traveling preacher, who claims to be converted. She tells him about their later son but refuses to stay with him. He proposes marriage, insisting even after he learns she's already wed but abandoned. She keeps writing to Angel, who can't answer as he is gravely ill.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsGemma ArtertonHans MathesonEddie RedmayneAfter Alec gives up preaching in order to court Tess and father Darbeyfield is killed by illness, she writes a vicious letter to Angel rejecting him as 'cruel', which he never receives, and starts wandering. By the time he's home and healed, it's hard to find her. When he does, she's 'Alec's creature'. She now commits an irreparable crime which ruins all their lives after a last passionate phase.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsRachael StirlingRichard HopeMonica DolanUnconventional, unflinching, and undeniably engaging, this coming-of-age story is about a provincial young woman who follows her heart--and a beautiful male impersonator--to London. It's also a candid depiction of lesbian love in Victorian England.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsRachael StirlingBernice StegersKeeley HawesUnconventional, unflinching, and undeniably engaging, this coming-of-age story is about a provincial young woman who follows her heart--and a beautiful male impersonator--to London. It's also a candid depiction of lesbian love in Victorian England.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsAnna ChancellorJanet HenfreySara StockbridgeUnconventional, unflinching, and undeniably engaging, this coming-of-age story is about a provincial young woman who follows her heart--and a beautiful male impersonator--to London. It's also a candid depiction of lesbian love in Victorian England.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonLindsay DuncanJamal ShahJack Lithgow is a British government minister who travels to Pakistan to discuss a new aid agreement aimed at reducing opium production in the country which farmers cultivate it and local organized crime figures harness it for heroin production for worldwide distribution. Jack also encounters Fazal, a local poppy farmer in the North-West Frontier provinces who grows opium poppies since the local drug traffickers give him huge amounts of cash for the sale of the crop. But when the Pakistani Army arrives to destroy the fields, Fazal finds himself out of work. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Germany, Karl is a high-profile businessman who gets arrested for drug trafficking which stuns his British wife, Helen, who does not know about his secret work of drug trafficking on the sides.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonJulia OrmondLinda BassettAfter returning to England from his visit to Pakistan, Jack becomes distracted from his work to stop the drug flow from the Middle East by a family crisis involving his 17-year-old daughter, Caroline, who becomes addicted to heroin after carousing with her outgoing school mates all of whom are addicts to the same drugs that come from the country Jack is trying to prevent it from coming from. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Helen struggles to stabilizes her family's finances and safeguard her two young daughters as her financial situation worsens and Karl is officially charged with drug trafficking, while Agents Dieter and Ulli try to make their case against Karl. In Pakistan, Fazal arrives in Karachi to look for work when he meets and falls in with Tariq Butt, a major drug trafficker.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonJulia OrmondLinda BassettHelen's desperation grows as she wades deeper into her imprisoned husband's world of drug trafficking despite constant police surveillance of her house and realizes that she, out of blind loyalty to her husband, will not only have to take over his drug smuggling business to support her expensive and lavish lifestyle, but also use his contacts to try to get him released. In London, Jack's continuing trouble with Caroline causes his marriage to disintegrate as his daughter refuses to go into rehab which leads to her running away from home, and his wife emotionally begins falling apart. In Pakistan, Fazal, now working as Tariq's chauffeur, observes the drug lord's mastery of the drug trafficking system.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonJulia OrmondLinda BassettIn England, Jack confronts the mounting conflict between his political and personal lives as Caroline's drug problem becomes more out of control and his advisers tell him that the war against drug trafficking is unwindable. In Pakistan, Tariq brings Fazal to one of his remote heroin making laboratories where he tests Fazal's loyalty. In Germany, Helen launches her own counter-offensive against the police to destroy their case against her husband as Karl's trial for drug trafficking begins.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonJamal ShahTalat HussainJack returns to Pakistan to press the arrests in exchange for the British aide agreement which sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences for Fazal. Meanwhile, Helen also travels to Pakistan to do business with Tariq for another shipment of raw opium to Germany. But Tariq asks her to prove her loyalty to him first by trying to smuggle heroin with her back to Germany, while Ulli, still reeling from the murder of his partner, becomes determined to nail Helen who proves to be just as slippery and dangerous as her imprisoned husband.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsBill PatersonJulia OrmondLinda BassettJack returns to England utterly changed by his downbeat experience in Pakistan, with his career and family life in ruins as he is forced to resign his post, as well as struggle to help Caroline and get her into a rehab program before it is too late for her. Back in Pakistan, Fazal's wife, Roomana, goes to work for Tariq to secure her husband's release from prison in which Fazal decides to resort to drastic steps to get out of the drug making business for good. In Germany, Ulli prepares to intercept Helen's first shipment of heroin from Pakistan just as she works behind the scenes to secure Karl's release from jail so he can resume his drug trafficking business.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyA few years later, Tom goes back home to give his father back the $3000 but finds a super market where the bakery was. Mr. Boylan shows up at Rudy's college graduation and tells him that Julie is living with "some guy" in the village and let's him know that Julie is in the phone book "under her maiden name". After his father's suicide, Rudy has moved his mother to Whitby. Tom and his wife, Teresa, have a baby boy. Rudy is working on a business plan for Calderwood, who needs to retire.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyFour years later, Julie comes to Rudy, in her capacity of photographer and invites him to a party she's having, where she tells him about her marriage troubles and that her husband will not let her have custody of their son. Rudy says he will handle it. They overhear the Tom's boxing match on the radio and go to see him. Tom asks Rudy to meet him the following afternoon. When they meet, Tom gives Rudy the $3000 from the bail his father paid. Rudy realizes that was the reason that he didn't end up getting the money for his business from their father. Tom is angry that Rudy doesn't want the money and, now that he's "paid his debt" Tom wants to be done with the family also. As Rudy is dropping Julie back at home, her son is being taken away by ambulance. Angry that Tom has given away the money she didn't know they had, Teresa leaves with the baby, Wesley.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyNow 1958, Tom returns to his old boxing coach and asks for a job. Tom has hired a private detective to find Teresa and Wesley, but the detective hasn't been paid and is sitting on the case. Virginia Calderwood visits Rudy on the job and invites him to the theatre, after which he is "allowed" to take her to supper. Virginia offers to intercede with her father, but Rudy turns her down. Rudy is invited to a gathering tomorrow evening where an old friend of his will be. Upon meeting, Rudy tells Julie to face facts, that they will be married at some time and promises to call her in the morning. Virginia tries to get Rudy to take her back to his hotel room, but he tells the cab driver to go to the Barbizon instead. In the back of the cab, Virginia tries to seduce Rudy and then gets angry that he doesn't comply. She vows to "get" him. Tom is enjoying a flirtation with the wife of coach's new star boxer, and he has someone keeping an eye on them. Tom gets a call from his private detective, with a 6-month-old lead on Teresa and for another $100, he'll be able to track her down. The boxer beats up his wife and she tells Tom to get out of town. Tom waits for the husband in his motel room, where he beats him enough to cancel the fight. The coach tells Tom that the boxer's owner is "connected" and that he has no idea the trouble he's in. Motel room neighbors have called the police. Coach sends Tom to his friend who can set him up in the merchant marines.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyRudy and Julie spend the day together, as if the thirteen years had not gone by. As Julie arrives home, Billy meets her at the door to tell her "Daddy is home and he's going to stay". Willie is devastated to learn that he is no longer married to Julie. Tom meets with his detective and discovers that three large men are looking for him. Tom finds coach's friend with the connection to the merchant marines and finds he will need $500 for a passport and seaman's ticket. Tom goes to Rudy's for the money and sees his mother, who gives him the money.He tells her, if she ever needs him (not for Rudy), how to contact him via Papadakis at the Agean Hotel in New York. Calderwood calls Rudy and tells him he expects him in Whitby Friday night. Calderwood tells Rudy that he expects him to marry Virginia as a consequence of his seduction of her. In return Rudy will be named a full partner and, upon Calderwood's death, Rudy will receive all his shares and full control. Rudy angrily quits and walks out, making Calderwood realize that he is mistaken about his beliefs about Virginia and Rudy and does not accept his resignation. Rudy asks Julie if she wants him to take care of the Willie problem. Tom gets a ship, passport and seaman's ticket in the name of "Tom Jordan" and an address for Teresa..
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan Blakely1962 and Rudy has informed Calderwood that he's "breaking up the partnership". Mrs. Jordache says her son is ambitious, with no time for anything, even his own mother. Is politics next? Julie is with Life Magazine and, according to Rudy, letting her son grow up wild. Rudy wants to get married and give the boy a father. Tom, in South America with the merchant marines, is changing ships and sees a man (Falconetti) beating up another man. One of the other men watching, notices Tom and says he's seen him someplace, "it'll come to me". Falconetti comes to Tom, provoking him, but Tom walks away. Tom and the new "third mate" take a day to see the sights in the French Riviera and learn if they have their own yacht to rent out for parties, they could make a living. Rudy's campaign begins.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyFinally Tom confronts Falconetti after the third mate is assaulted by him and the other man now remembers where he saw Tom fight. Tom is told he must get off ship when they get into the New York port. Tom discovers Rudy has been looking for him, due to their mother's change in health. On her death bed, Mrs. Jordache apologizes to Tom, saying that maybe she gave too much to Rudy and there wasn't enough left for Tom, but Tom says it's OK and that he loves her. Tom discovers that Rudy invested the $3000 he tried to give Rudy and today is worth about $48,000. He calls his friend, the third mate, and tells him they have their boat. Rudy promises Tom that he'll find Wesley. Rudy is elected state senator and is called home to a very drunk and destructive, Julie.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyStory begins at VE Day celebration at the school where elder son of a German immigrant, Rudy Jordache is a student. Younger brother, Tom, is also in attendance, but leaves when it is too "corny" for him and his friend. Tom gets into a fight with a soldier and later sneaks home through a window. Julie (Rudy's girl), wants to get married but will settle for "living in sin" with him in New York while she tries for an acting career. Rudy, however, has applied for a grant to Whitby College. They meet Mr. Boylan, who is her mother's boss, and it's quite obvious he is taken with Julie, as is his brother, Tom. After setting a fire at Boylan's greenhouse, Tom is sent away and Rudy is going to Whitby after all. In California at Uncle Harold's, Tom falls in love with the housekeeper. Julie gets a small part in a Broadway play, where Rudy goes to see her and finds her with a married man. Rudy gets his father to agree to give him $3000 to set up a business but his father has to use that money to bail out Tom. Mr. Jordache tells Tom he never wants to see him again. Rudy is forced befriend the daughter of his rich boss to see if he'll back the business. Mr. Jordache leaves home.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyIn California at Uncle Harold's, Tom falls in love with the housekeeper. Julie gets a small part in a Broadway play, where Rudy goes to see her and finds her with a married man. Rudy gets his father to agree to give him $3000 to set up a business but his father has to use that money to bail out Tom. When Mr. Jordache returns from California, the super market has been built next door and the landlord wants them to move out. Mrs. Jordache is moving out of their bedroom until they move. After this fight, Mr. Jordache walks out. Tom leaves town and lets Teresa come with him.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan Blakely1965: Tom writes Rudy that, if he has any rich friends that vacation in the Mediterranean, he should mention Tom's name. The yacht is called Clothilde. While docked in Cannes, Wesley takes the boat out to impress some girls and damages the propeller. Tom has to find the hiding boy and recalls his father beating him. When Wesley approaches, Tom puts his arm around him and says tomorrow he will teach the boy how to repair a propeller. Falconetti sees the father and son pass by him in the night. College students show up at Rudy's house to protest and Julie answers the door, drunk and naked. The students make copies of the photos taken of her, so Rudy goes to the newspaper office and starts throwing stuff around, causing a shelf to fall on a student. The developing chemicals go into her eyes. Rudy asks Julie if they really try, could they be put back together. Tom and Kate get married and are expecting a baby; Rudy and Julie attend the wedding. After the wedding, Julie sneaks out in the night for a drink and is joined by Falconetti. When it's reported to Tom that his sister-in-law is in town drinking with Falconetti, Tom goes to get her. Tom tells Kate that the good thing is that he could have killed a man, but didn't. Tom is attacked on the dock in a set-up.