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The First World War claimed a life every twenty-five seconds - for four years. What had been the point of it all? It was believed that World War One was the 'war to end all wars'.

That the grief and loss suffered would result in a new world order, one in which peace and prosperity would replace inequality, injustice and power-grabbing swagger. But 20 years after the guns fell silent, the war drums were banging again louder and more lethal than ever. Why? Why did the peace that survivors prayed and paid for last little more than 20 years? Why did tyrants rise to control the fate of continents? Why did a world that had survived a war collapse into an unprecedented depression? Two world wars tore the heart out of the 20th century. Between these two tragedies was an age that nostalgia views enthusiastically - a time of jazz, Charlie Chaplin, prohibition, the talkies, radio and the motor car. A time that history now reveals as an age of anxiety. Told through archive and the insights of international historians, 'Impossible Peace' is a story of twenty years of peace that produced war.

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Written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 'Killing Eve' centres on two women; Eve (Sandra Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn't fulfil her fantasies of being a spy.

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. 'Killing Eve' topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

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As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism.

Unfettered and unfiltered, Fleabag tears through the series sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from any orifice, rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up the bravado all along. Because that's just the kind of messed-up, normal person she is. By turns hilarious and heart-breaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached she's utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us.

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Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach.

A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland's remote rural communities.

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In 1944, a group of American soldier known as "The Filthy Thirteen" are becoming an increasing problem for their superiors - disobeying orders, bathing infrequently and often going AWOL from their barracks.

But the rebellious men are given an opportunity to atone for their behaviour when they are selected to be the first unit to parachute behind German lines during the invasion of Normandy. Their goal is to move through enemy territory on foot and destroy Nazi supply lines and escape routes. Some call it a suicide mission. But they haven't counted on the ferocity and determination of this ragtag group of D-Day Assassins who will stop at nothing to take down the enemy.

Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope (voice of Sarah Silverman) risk it all by travelling to the internet in search of a part to save her game. When Vanellope embraces this thrilling new world, Ralph realises he may lose the only friend he's ever had.

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"Tin Star" Season Two picks up at the moment Season One left off, but this time things are different. Having seemingly destroyed everything he loves. Jack (Tim Roth) has to win Angela (Genevieve O'Reilly) and Anna (Abigail Lawrie) back.

In order to make amends for his actions and rebuild his family, he must save another from destruction. If Jim is to find a way to save his family and atone for his sins, he must form an uneasy alliance in the battle for forgiveness.

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The magic returns in Disney's all-new classic as Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) helps the Banks family remember the joy of what it's like to be a child.

Together with her friend Jack the lamplighter (Lin-Manuel Miranda), fun is brought back to the streets of London in celebration that everything is possible...even the impossible.

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"Instrument of War" is an harrowing yet uplifting true story about survival against seemingly impossible odds. When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline (Jack Ashton) is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins - to keep hope alive.

Now behind Nazi barbed wire Cline and his fellow POW's must find a way to bond together to try and survive the hell they find themselves in.

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Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV (George Blagden) confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens the kingdom, even so far as the court of Versailles into which a deadly poison seeps.

Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe far away from Paris, locking the nobility inside it and exercising absolute control. But the King has created a new and dangerous civilisation where courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind a veneer of etiquette, they dream of ascending the social ladder to a world of wealth and power. Morality is waning, the poison spreads... Versailles is crumbling faster than it is being built. Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange. The palace that he himself designed could become his worst enemy. Wavering between mysticism and obscurity, diving into the dark side of power, will the king's downward spiral yet see his return to the light?

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From the writers of 'The Missing' comes 'Baptiste'; a thrilling new drama starring Tchéky Karyo as the insightful but stubborn investigator Julien Baptiste.

When Julien and his wife move to Amsterdam to help look after their grandchild, the Chief of Police (an old girlfriend) seeks out his help in finding a young sex worker who has gone missing. As Baptiste rapidly becomes embroiled in a case that peels back the layers of atrocity in the trade of sex, drugs and people themselves, nothing is as it first seems. For Julien Baptiste the beautiful streets, canals and houses of Amsterdam hide dark, deadly secrets.

With Frank (Kevin Spacey) out of the picture, Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) steps fully into her own as the first female president, but faces formidable threats to her legacy. The final season of the Emmy Award-winning drama builds to a tense and unforgettable climax.

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With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that's crucial to the invasion's success.

Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower. But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.'s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen.

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Visiting the ships as they stand today, Rob will reveal how and why these monumental vessels were originally built. He'll uncover a killing on board on the Cutty Sark, reveal the mystery of why the Mary Rose sank and discover how HMS Belfast helped turn the tide on D-Day.

From Nelson on board HMS Victory to Sir Francis Drake on the Golden Hinde, Rob will reveal how daring, genius and dazzling invention led to Britain becoming the world's greatest sea power.

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Against the epic backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, 'Les Misérables' is the story of Jean Valjean (Dominic West), a former convict unable to escape the shadow of his past life.

His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert (David Oyelowo), who is determined to bring him to justice. Meanwhile, Fantine (Lily Collins), a working-class woman abandoned by her rich lover, is driven to increasingly desperate measures to provide for her young daughter. Their stories collide and as revolutionary violence ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance, redemption and love.