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This atmospheric drama based on a chilling true story sees a determined detective taunted by an arrogant serial killer as he fights to bring him to justice. The trial and execution of Peter Manuel in 1958 was a media sensation and attracted worldwide press attention.

Never before had one man been tried simultaneously for eight murders. This gripping series dramatises the real-life story of Detective William Muncie's dogged battle to prove Manuel's guilt - and the killer's personal vendetta against the policeman on his trail.

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When a terrifying new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules and his fearless team of warriors must lead their army in a battle against overwhelming odds.

It will take the strength of a god for Hercules to overcome his past and conquer his foes in the epic adventure that critics are calling "a terrific blockbuster!"

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Returning to Scotland for the first time in years stirs up uneasy memories for Adam Snow (Douglas Henshall).

He longs for the beautiful Alice (Louise Lombard), wife of his client, and faces the realisation that he has barely been present for his fragile brother Hugo (Cal MacAnich), who is suffering a mental breakdown. While visiting Alice, Adam develops a fascination for a formerly majestic mansion nearby, Raven's End. Seeing this as a chance to be closer to Alice, as well as to his brother, he decides to buy Raven's End and to finally put down roots.While working on the renovation and secretly planning a new life with Alice, Adam is plagued by haunting dreams, visions and visits from a ghostly child. Fearing he may be suffering from the same fate as his brother, Adam is determined to untangle the truth and excise the spirit from his life. But his coming to Raven's End has set in motion a chain of sinister events linked to his past and a painful secret to which Adam's family holds the key.

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McCall (Denzel Washington) has put his mysterious past behind him and is dedicated to living a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by.

Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Forced into slavery by the corrupt, incestuous heir to be throne, Roman general Maximus (Russell Crowe) becomes a gladiator. His prowess in the arena will eventually lead him to Rome, the Colosseum and a vengeful showdown with the new emperor.

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A year after her little boy goes missing, Eve takes her family to Crickley Hall to escape the past. She discovers their new refuge has a past even more disturbing. Unseen children are pursued by a frenzied spectre wielding a cane.

As Eve prepares to move out, she hears her missing son who tells her the children know where he is. In order to find him, Eve has to unravel the mystery of what happened in Crickley Hall in 1943. But as she searches, the evil that stalks Crickley Hall reaches for her other children.

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Peter Mullan, paints a provocative picture of family life in his critically acclaimed debut as writer and director. The evening before their mother's funeral, the Flynn brothers and their disabled sister meet for a private farewell ceremony.

However, the party gets highly over-emotional and ends in violence at a local pub. But this shocking event is just the first of a series of frightening, distressing and funny incidents that face the Flynns over one stormy Glasgow night. It's a compelling story of the similarities that bind a family together and the differences that threaten to tear them apart, where violence is explored as an antidote to grief and hilarity a refuge for compassion.

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'My Name Is Joe' is a slice of life so raw that you can see the blood dripping off it and as in real life it mixes humour, passion, tragedy and violence in equal measure. Joe is a recovering alcoholic and has done a few things in his past which he’d rather forget.

Like most people he knows, he’s out of work but he keeps sane by coaching the self-styled worst football team in Glasgow. When one of Joe’s players, Liam, gets involved with some local gangsters a chain of events is set in motion which not only threatens the lives of those concerned but also comes between Joe’s budding love affair with social worker Sarah.

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During the height of 'the Railway Age', two huge joint-stock companies fought over the trade between the Capital cities of England and Scotland.

The East Coast main line of the LNER, or London and North Eastern Railway, made direct connections from London's Kings Cross to Edinburgh's Waverley with famous trains including the 'Flying Scotsman', headed by massive Pacific locomotives such as Sir Nigel Gresley's immortal 'Mallard', the fastest steam locomotive ever. Running up the West Coast was the Scottish main line of the LMS, or London Midland and Scottish Railway, its main target the traffic to Glasgow, but also serving Edinburgh Princes Street station. The most powerful pacific's of their time, the stanier 'Duchesses', handled this Anglo-Scottish traffic and this video brings the rivalry back to life with film of these great locomotives ranging from the 1950's to the present day.

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Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, 'Shetland' follows Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community.

In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing. Set against a hauntingly beautiful landscape, 'Shetland' is based on the best selling books Red Bones, Raven Black, Dead Water and Blue Lightning.

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Hidden deep beneath the burning city of Berlin in the final days of World War Two, three German generals embarked on an audacious plan to correct the wrongs perpetrated by the Nazi party.

A sacred pact was signed, funds allocated and events put into motion that, 40 years later, would see the first sons of the three generals head a foundation "The Holcroft Covenant" now worth $4.5 billion. Such a vast sum of money is bound to attract some unwanted attention. Murder, conspiracy and danger are at the heart of this compelling thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Robert Ludlum.

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As the globe stands on the brink of World War II, Shanghai has fallen and deadly Japanese bombers target the infamous city of Nanking.

As panic breaks out and savage bombing raids devastate the city, veteran entrepreneur John Rabe, a German living the high life in the social whirl of Nanking, must make a agonizing choice: to flee or give sanctuary to the terrified population within the gates of his factory. When the Imperial Japanese Army discovers rich "Nazi" Rabe's selfless operation, they see it an act of high treason. As a wave of brutality is unleashed on Nanking, Rabe and his comrades find themselves in a race against time to fight for a safety zone to protect the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of this ultimate act of war. But as the bombings desist, a perilous siege begins.

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In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera", Cameron Mackintosh produced a unique, spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been seen before.

Inspired by the original staging by Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne, this lavish, fully-staged production set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of London's legendary Royal Albert Hall features a cast and orchestra of over 200, plus some very special guest appearances.

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1943. They had never set foot on French soil, but because France was at war, four young Algerian men, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir, enlisted in the French army along with 130,00 other 'indigenous soldiers', to liberate the 'fatherland' from the Nazi enemy.

Days of Glory chronicles the story of these forgotten heroes and the discrimination they subsequently faced from the French authorities. After seeing the film, French President Jacques Chirac agreed to restore veterans' pensions to the North Africans who fought along French troops during the war. A movie can make a difference...

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From Victor Hugo's classic French novel of the nineteenth century to Tom Hooper's award winning blockbuster, 'Les Misérables' has undergone one of the most successful transitions from book to stage to screen.

In this new documentary, the scintillating journey of Hugo's universal story is traced from book to stage to screen with contributions from those who have starred in and helped to create the entertainment phenomenon which has captured a place in everyone's hearts. Helmed by entertainment and celebrity journalist Neil Sean, this insightful documentary traces the events of the Paris insurrection in 1832 and features excerpts from the restored 1978 'Les Misérables' film starring Anthony Perkins alongside interviews with Frances Ruffelle, Hugh Jackman, Nick Jonas, Tom Hooper, Alfie Boe, Amanda Seyfried, Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Anne Hathaway. When Cameron Mackintosh decided to make a musical of Jean Valjean's search for redemption, critics slated its first London performance in 1985, as literary critics had done with the publication of Victor Hugo's novel in 1862. But nearly thirty years later over 60 million people have seen the stage play and many more will watch the movie or read Hugo's novel, which is amongst the ten greatest novels of all time.