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TV adaptation of Anne Lister’s diaries. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1832. Charismatic, Anne Lister determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines...
A teenage girl and her father, who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon, are discovered, removed from the park and then taken into the charge of a...
This collection brings together three films from 1965-7. The collection opens with ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD...
OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...
Documentary about the truth behind the JT Leroy literary phenomenon. Leroy was a fictional persona created by writer Laura Albert and played by Albert’s sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop. In 2006, The New York...
Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...
Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales, outselling science fiction, fantasy, and mystery combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous rather than elevated as a...
A drama-documentary inspired by The Post Card by Jacques Derrida. Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant is in analysis. Filmmaker...
This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...
Selection of poems written about the First World War read by actor Rory Kinnear. Among the poets represented are Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon,...
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