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In this original movie directed by Daniel Minahan and based on the iconoclastic, Emmy-winning HBO' series, David Milch's unforgettably profane characters reunite in the wake of South Dakota's statehood.

Sins of the past return with a vengeance, old feuds are revived, and allegiances are tested as modernity stakes its claim on this remote and dangerous and town.

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"God's Wonderful Railway" is the classic 8-part BBC series from 1980. It follows three generations of the Grant family who live and work on the Severn Valley branch of the Great Western Railway.

Split into three different stories, 'The Permanent Way' tells of the construction of the line in the 1860s, 'Clear Ahead' shows the line in its Edwardian heyday in 1906 and 'Fire on the Line', set in 1939, shows how the outbreak of the Second World War affected both the family and the railway. Filmed on location on the now preserved Severn Valley Railway.

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Featuring a career defining performance from Vincent Cassel, the two part saga follows the incredible series of hold-ups, prison breaks and kidnappings throughout the 70's and 80's across several continents.

Part 1: Killing Instincts

Mesrine: Killer Instinct introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algeria! War. Handsome and charming, he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and easy money if presents. Mentored by Guido (Gerard Depardieu) Mesrine soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, choosing the high risk life of a gangster over the honest life of th hard working family. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Ceciie France), flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety.
Part 2: Public Enemy Number One
The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and is eventually condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as the detectives close in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to a full bloody circle.

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Lucy Worsley's Six Wives is an ambitious, ground breaking approach to drama and history on television. Historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the Tudor Court to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of Henry Vlll's Six Wives.

Combining drama based on eye witness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own contemporary historical comment, Lucy moves seamlessly from the present to the past, appearing as silent servant. As the drama plays out, Lucy eavesdrops on the events and reports back to the audience. Closely knit and often related to each other, the Tudor court was made up of a small group of powerful families all vying for influence and power over each other. Whilst it was a world run by men and the King had ultimate power, each Queen (as well as their ladies in waiting) found their own unique methods of exerting influence. For the first time, it is these women's stories that Lucy wants to uncover, witness and explore, as well as offering her own take on Henry himself.

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Victorian London is gripped with fear as a serial killer - dubbed The Limehouse Golem - is on the loose and leaving cryptic messages written in his victims' blood.

With few leads and increasing public pressure, Scotland Yard assigns the case to Inspector Kildare (Bill Nighy) - a seasoned detective with a troubled past and a sneaking suspicion he's being set up to fail. Faced with a list of suspects, including music hall star Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), Kildare must discover which one is the killer before the Golem strikes again.

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Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe. Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke), aided by his wife Lina (Rosamund Pike), has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution".

His brutal and oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing him "The Man with the Iron Heart". However, a small group of Czechoslovak Resistance fighters led by Jan Kubis (Jack O'Connell) and Jozef Gabcik (Jack Reynor) seek to stop the unstoppable and plan to assassinate Heydrich, making him the highest-ranking Nazi officer ever to be killed World War II. Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling book 'HHhH', 'The Man with the Iron Heart' its all-star cast tell the incredible story of how the brave men and women the Resistance sacrificed everything in name of freedom.

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June 1943, Germany. The Nazi regime has declared Berlin "judenfrei"- free of Jews. However, 7,000 Jews have succeeded in pulling off the unthinkable. Hiding in attics, basements, and warehouses, and protected by courageous Berliners, they have become invisible to the authorities.

'The Resistance' tells the story of four survivors. Cioma (Max Mauff) is an art student who uses his drafting skills to forge passports in exchange for food ration cards; Hanni (Alice Dwyer) dyes her hair blond and tries to pass as Aryan; teenager Eugen is handed to a succession of sympathetic Communist families; and Ruth (Ruby O. Fee) must resort to roaming the streets before being taken in by a surprising protector.

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Margaret persuades Henry to leave Gary and Nicola in charge of the restaurant for a day while they go to the races, courtesy of cider-maker Bob Bishop, Margaret's new client. One of Bishop's stable lads has been murdered and Fisher puts Henry and Cambridge in charge of the investigation.

There are racially motivated attacks on Henry's local Chinese take-away - but all is not what it seems. Margaret is thrilled when the restaurant is nominated for the Great British Grub Competition but Henry isn't so happy about this turn of events.

When the banks committed the greatest fraud in US history, four outsiders risked it alt to take them down. Based on the unbelievable true story and best-selling book from the author of 'The Blind Side' and 'Moneyball', critics are calling 'The Big Short' "slick and funny".

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Christine (Nicole Kidman) wakes up next to a man (Colin Firth) she does not recognise. Panic stricken, he slowly explains that he is her husband, and that she suffered a terrible accident that has given her amnesia.

Every morning, Christine wakes up a stranger, and every night her memories fade into nothing. With the help of Dr. Nasch (Mark Strong), Christine is trying to regain her memory. That is, until one day, when new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her, and what really happened to her on the day of her accident...

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Tony Britton won a BAFTA nomination for his central performance in this finely observed drama about a veteran Labour back-bencher who risks the remains of his career when he re-engages in the grass-roots politics of his northern working-class constituency.

Starting life as a single 'ITV Playhouse' drama which won the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for Best Single Play in 1975, 'The Nearly Man' follows the events of seven months in a critical year for Christopher Collinson - a public-school MP with the perfect credentials for a candidate in the forthcoming general election. The series charts his uneasy relationship with party activists, the intrigues and aggression of politics - and the impact of Collinson's renewed ambition upon his marriage.

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Indigenous Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in the frontier mining town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry.

What seems like a simple 'light duties' investigation soon opens into a web of crime and corruption implicating the local Mayor (Jacki Weaver), mining boss and Aboriginial Land Council.

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"A Very English Scandal" is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy to murder.

It's the late 1960's, homosexuality has only just been decriminalized, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party and the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his vociferous ex-lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk, and eventually Thorpe can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British public discovered the darkest secrets of the Establishment and the lengths they'd go to conceal them.

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Halifax, Yorkshire, 1832. Charismatic, swashbuckling Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines and marry well. But Anne has no intention of marrying a man.

True to her own nature she plans to marry a woman and embarks on an epic, unconventional love story. 'Gentleman Jack' brings all the warmth, wit and complexity of the writing of Sally Wainwright (BAFTA award-winning writer of Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax) to the remarkable true story of Anne Lister.

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Debauchery. Greed. Murder. Welcome to Garlow. This once-peaceful frontier town has become a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (John Cusack) and his gang arrived - and began gunning down their opposition.

Undertaker Patrick Tate (Emile Hirsch) must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face in this intense and gritty western.