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In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office.

Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials, and discouragement. The entire 'All the President's Men' is their story. The film also explores a working newspaper, where the mission is to get the story - and to get it right.

Route Irish is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller that-delivers a fresh insight into the moral and political corruption at play in Iraq. As well as exploring the abuses perpetrated by private security firms on the ground in Iraq.

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An uncompromising, double-Bafta winning portrait of a particular milieu of working-class family life in southeast London, where its writer and director grew up, 'Nil by Mouth' is a powerful, astute, authentically foul-mouthed account of unfettered machismo, booze and drugs, petty crime and domestic

abuse. The performances are mesmerising throughout, with Ray Winstone as the volatile and self-pitying Ray, Kathy Burke as his longsuffering wife Val and Charlie Creed-Miles as her junkie brother Billy. Shot and scripted in a deceptively casual realist style reminiscent of John Cassavetes, this profoundly personal and humane film eschews sensationalism and sentimentality to illuminate a vicious circle of abuse and criminality. A dark but dazzling masterwork.

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Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs.

Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory.

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When feminist art collective Pussy Riot performed a 40 second 'punk prayer' inside Russia's main cathedral, they were arrested on charges of religious hatred in a trial that has reverberated around the world.

Filmed over the course of six months, Oscar nominated director Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin grant us unparalleled access and exclusive footage of the incredible three women behind their now-famous colourful balaclavas. As they defend their convictions from within a cage in the courtroom, we learn from their family and friends what transformed these women from political activists into modern day icons.

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The award-winning drama "Stuart A Life Backwards" details the friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (Alexander) and a chaotic homeless man (Stuart), whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

As Alexander learns more about Stuart’s complicated life and traumatic childhood, he asks if he can write his story and Stuart advises him to write the story backwards, so that it’s more exciting like a Tom Clancy murder-mystery. As their remarkable alliance develops, Stuart gradually recounts his life story in reverse, his resilient personality and dry sense of humour giving the story an almost tragi-comic edge. Through post-office heists, attempts at suicide and spells inside various institutions, Alexander is given a glimpse into a totally Alien World and begins to understand how Stuart's life spiralled so badly out of control.

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In the third season of the hit HBO drama series 'Game of Thrones', the Lannisters barely hold on to the throne after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon, while stirrings in the north threaten to alter the overall balance of power.

Robb Stark, King in the North, faces major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters while beyond the Wall, Manee Rayder and his huge army of wildlings continue their inexorable march south. Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targarycn - reunited with her three fast-maturing dragons - attempts to raise an army to sail with her from Essos, in hopes of eventually claiming the Iron Throne. In Season 3 of this original series based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling books, the battling families of Westeros continue to clash as bonds are strained, loyalties are tested, and cruel fates are met.

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As the title suggests, Walkabout is a journey not only in distance, but also in the transition for one Australian aborigine, from adolescence to manhood. While on a family picnic a beautiful teenager and her brother suddenly find themselves very much alone after the tragic death of their father.

As they wander through the outback they meet the young aborigine. The film unfolds and tells the tale of survival, resourcefulness and sexual awareness, as the travellers become lost in the Australian wilderness.

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Under police guard in hospital, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is charged with murder and awaits the trial that has the country gripped.

Cut off from all communication with the outside world, she must rely on journalist and former lover, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) to prove her innocence and expose the political cover up that threatens to destroy her freedom. In his way stands a mysterious group who will go to any lengths to keep the shocking truth of their actions a secret.

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Enigmatic computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist unite to solve the case of a missing girl. The unlikely due form a fragile alliance as they dig into the past of a secretive and dysfunctional family.

As they unravel a dark and appalling family history, Blomkvist and Salander are about to discover how close they can get to the truth before they too become a target.

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Back at Millennium's helm, Blomkvist is intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring but when two of his researchers are murdered, he realises there's more to this story than he first thought when Salander is framed for the crimes.

Unconvinced that she is involved, he attempts to clear her name and uncover the real killers. But secretive hacker Salander goes on the run and soon stumbles upon secrets of her own past. Secrets that people would kill to keep hidden.

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Following his hard-hitting documentary 'The War You Don't See', John Pilger's new film is a rare and powerful insight into a secret Australia and breaks what amounts to a national silence about the indigenous first people - the oldest, most enduring presence on Earth.

An epic film in its production, scope and revelations, 'Utopia' reveals that apartheid is deep within Australia's past and present and that Aboriginal people are still living in abject poverty and Third World conditions, with a low life expectancy and disproportionately high rate of deaths in police custody.

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Released on video for the first time and personally chosen by John Pilger, this set brings together twelve of the acclaimed Australian film-maker and journalist's most hard-hitting and inspirational films.

Recipient of multiple awards, including the UN Media Peace Prize, John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and respected factual film-maker, who began his career in his native Australia, before moving to London. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter since 1967 and in the UK he is a regular contributor to a wide range of international broadcast and print media including the New Statesman, ITV, The Guardian and American and European newspapers. A passionate and rare critic of foreign military and economic ventures by Western governments, Pilger has been described as unique on British television. His work makes uneasy viewing as he uncovers shocking truths about the political forces that manifest themselves worldwide; forces that many turn a blind eye to. Leaving no stone unturned he treads where many journalists fear to go.

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
The shocking state of Cambodia after Pol Pot's murderous regime.
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983)
How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War (1984)
A look at the worldwide struggle for soft drink supremacy.
Flying the Flag: Arming the World (1994)
An investigation of the world of international arms dealing.
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny (1970)
The incredible account of the break-up of the US military in Vietnam.
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
An exploration of the situation in East Timor - a country ruled by bloodshed and fear.
Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996)
An undercover investigation of slave labour in Burma.
Welcome to Australia (1999)
An examination of the exclusion of Australia's Aborigines.
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)
An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.
Palestine Is Still the Issue (2003)
An assessment of the problems endemic to the West Bank and Gaza.
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
An inquiry into the "war on terror" and its affects on 'liberated' countries.
Stealing a Nation (2004)
The scandalous story of the expulsion of the Chagos Islanders.
John Pilger at the Guardian Hay Festival (2006)

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Following his award-winning documentary 'The War on Democracy', John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war.

'The War You Don't See' traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an 'electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today? Starting his career as a journalist in his native Australia before moving to London, John Pilger has been the recipient of multiple awards, including Britain's highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States. He has been a foreign correspondent and frontline war reporter, and is a regular contributor to international media, including the ITV Network, the Guardian and the New Statesman. An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger's humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go.

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"Taxi Driver" provoked fierce controversy when it was released, running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be "as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs".

In addition there was an outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award Nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (Robert de Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Foster).