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Star Trek Beyond (2016)Star Trek: Beyond
Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall (Idris Elba), a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop Krall's deadly army from triggering all-out galactic war. - Director:
- Justin Lin
- Cast:
- Chris Pine, Shea Whigham, Zachary Quinto
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Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) grew up hunting these terrifying things. But that's all in the past. Law school beckons him. So do safety and normality. That is, until Sam's estranged brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) appears with troubling news: their father, a man who's been hunting evil for 22 years, has disappeared. So now, to find him, the brothers must hunt what their father hunts...and Sam must return to the life he thought he'd left behind. - Director:
- David Nutter
- Cast:
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki
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In the harrowing final season of 'Star Trek: Enterprise', timelines collide as Captain Jonathan Archer continues to lead the exploration into the unknown, as well as rally support to form a coalition of planets in an attempt to prevent intergalactic war. In a season rife with danger and suspense, both Starfleet and the crew of the Enterprise are put to the test as they encounter genetically engineered humans, deal with an alternate "mirror" universe, and confront the extremist organisation known as Terra Prime - a sinister cartel that's determined to put an end to humanity's mission of galactic exploration. Rising to the challenges facing them, Commander Tucker, Lieutenant Reed, Ensigns Sato and Mayweather, Sub-Commander T'Pol, and Dr. Phlox all come together in support of their Captain in his effort to defend the galaxy... and lay the foundation for the United Federation of Planets. - Director:
- Allan Kroeker
- Cast:
- Scott Bakula, J.D. Hall, John Billingsley
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When a ruthless mastermind known as Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) declares a one-man war on the Federation, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), and the daring crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise set out on their most explosive manhunt of all time. It will take everything in their arsenal to defend Earth and eliminate Khan's deadly threat... - Director:
- J.J. Abrams
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- Chris Pine, Brian T. Delaney, Zachary Quinto
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Star Trek (2009)Star Trek: The Future Begins
When the Romulan Nero comes from the future to take revenge on the Federation, rivals Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) must work together to stop him from destroying everything they know. On an exhilarating journey filled with spectacular action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits of the U.S.S. Enterprise will voyage through unimaginable danger, boldly going where, no one has gone before. - Director:
- J.J. Abrams
- Cast:
- Greg Grunberg, Chris Pine, Majel Barrett
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Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), is tricked by her boyfriend into delivering a briefcase where she is grabbed and held hostage by the merciless Mr. Jang (Choi Min-Sik). His thugs surgically implant a package loaded with a powerful synthetic substance in her to smuggle it across the border. The package leaks and she develops superhuman traits. Lucy enlists the help of professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman), whose decades of research on the brain's potential makes him unparalleled in the field and the only person with the ability to see where this might lead. Relentlessly pursued by her former captors Lucy begins to turn the tables and transform into a warrior evolved beyond human logic. - Director:
- Luc Besson
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- Scarlett Johansson, Laura D'Arista Adam, Eunyul Hong
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Acknowledged to be the most comprehensive television history of the Second World War ever made. Featuring rare documentary footage and candid interviews, the program charts the Second World War from beginning to end with narration by Sir Laurence Olivier and Eric Porter.
The Bomb: February - September 1945
Western scientists have developed a new, immensely powerful weapon - the Atomic Bomb. Should it be used? The moral implications are enormous...
Remember
For many, the Second World War remains the most significant experience of their lives. But millions, many more millions than we realise, died...
Who Won World War II?
The world in 1945 was a simple place. Germany and Japan utterly defeated. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, united in victory, were the masters of the world. Years afterwards things are different, Germany is strong, Japan dominates in peace the countries it could not conquer in war. While America and Russia are deadly rivals and Britain is unsettled. Distinguished American Historian Stephen Ambrose gives his startling views regarding the consequences of war.
Reckoning - April 1945
The war ends slowly, messily. Britain is victorious but exhausted. The super powers now confront each other - it is they who will decide the fate of Europe...
Special Presentation: Secretary to Hitler
Traudl Junge found herself in Berlin during the war because she wanted to be a ballet dancer. A friend told her about a job vacancy in Hitler's chancellery; she applied for it. Looking like Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, she became not a dancer but one of Hitler's private secretaries. She saw him at close quarters, shared his public life, was with him in the Bunker at the end.
Warrior
Some men are terrified of combat; some revel in it: but no man who has experienced it is ever quite the same again.- Director:
- Michael Darlow
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- Laurence Olivier, McGeorge Bundy, Eric Porter
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Sir Laurence Olivier narrates a further eight episodes of Jeremy Isaacs' epic documentary.
Inside the Reich: Germany 1940-1944The Wehrmacht triumphant, luxury goods in the shops, peace just around the corner. But peace is a long way off and the iron ring around the Reich tightens...
Occupation: 1940-1943
The Netherlands live under Nazi rule for four years and its people must decide where their loyalties lie. In occupied Europe, there are no easy answers...
Genocide: 1933-1945
The Nazis are racists; the Aryans are a master race; others, particularly Jews, are sub-human. Himmler's SS sets about ridding Europe of millions of Jews...
Japan: 1941-1945
Japan's rulers think they have the strength to bend Britain and America to their will. But they are wrong...
Morning: June 1944
The Western Allies resolve to invade Europe. England becomes a floating supply dump and the British and Americans assemble the largest invasion fleet in history. It is June 6th 1944 - D Day...
Pacific: August 1944
From East and West, the Allies close in on the Reich. Germany is crumbling, but it is not defeated yet...
Nemesis: February - May 1945
Hitler retreats to the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin as Germany crumbles around him. His lieutenants abandon him to a fate of suicide. Meanwhile, the Russians raise the red flag in Berlin...
Pacific: February 1942 - July 1945 - The Island to Island War
The Americans fight their way across the Pacific towards Japan and the Philippines. Perhaps the bloodiest campaign of all, each island has to be taken by storm - the Japanese fight to the last man...- Director:
- John Pett
- Cast:
- Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, John Pett
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Sir Laurence Olivier narrates a further eight episodes of Jeremy Isaacs' epic documentaries.
Desert: The War in North Africa - 1940-1943
For two years the 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps fight in the wastes of North Africa - finally the tide turns at El Alamein...Wolf Pack: 1939-1944
In a war of high technology and animal courage, the German U-boats fight allied merchantmen, hounding them in packs. A German victory at sea will drive Britain from the war...
Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939 - April 1944
Bomber Command are unable to hit precise targets and begin bombing German cities by night. The Americans reinforce the attacks by day; a whirlwind of terror and destruction will win the war...
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: 1942-1943
Vera Lynn sang of a lovely day tomorrow, but the war in Burma was mud and monsoon. Britain's largest army learned to master the jungle and fought the Japanese to a standstill...
Stalingrad: 1942-1943
Hitler's early successes in Russia made him reckless and he resolves to capture Stalingrad. The battle lasts six months with the Russians emerging as victors. The Wehrmacht never recovers...
Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943
For two years, the Soviet Army fights the Germans almost alone. After the greatest land battles in history, the nation survives and triumphs - with a loss of no less than twenty million of its people.
Tough Old Gut: 1942-1943
Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' and thought the Allies could cut through it to the heart of Germany. But the soft underbelly turned out to be a 'tough old gut'...
Home Fires
At home in Britain during the war - a time of gas masks, Winston Churchill, Coventry, Dig for Victory, evacuation, Georgr Formby, ITMA, the Land Army, the Squander Bug and the Beveridge Report...- Director:
- John Pett
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- Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman
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Sully (2016)Sully: Miracle on the Hudson
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) and his co-pilot (Aaron Eckhart) glided their disabled plane onto the icy waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
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- Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
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The story behind the production process and the challenges involved in summarising years of history and millions of feet of archive footage.
1. A New Germany: 1933 - 1939Germany, a nation stricken by humiliating defeat and emerging from crippling economic depression, looks to one man for a resurgence of hope and dignity. That man is Adolf Hitler...
2. Distant War: September 1939 - May 1940
In Eastern Europe, the full force of the Nazi machine rolls on - but in Britain, an uneasy calm settles on the nation. It is the 'phoney' war, with the sound of distant guns thundering ominously on the horizon...
3. France Falls: May - June 1940
The French had made the disastrous mistake of preparing for another war like the First World War. Consequently, the French army are totally humiliated.
4. Alone in Britain: May 1940 - June 1941
After Dunkirk, Britain faces the German onslaught. Although the RAF wins the Battle of Britain, the cities are blitzed and on the Continent, the last allies are conquered. The outlook is grim...
5. Barbarossa: June - December 1941
Hitler at last turns his tanks towards Russia. After a succession of devastating victories, the Germans delay fatally, and the fierce Russian winter takes a grip...
6. Banzai: Japan Strikes: 1941 - 1942
The Japanese, at war since 1931 on the Chinese mainland, hope for easy victories over the British and Dutch. And then, on December 7th 1941, the infamous attack on Pearl Harbour...
7. On Our Way: America Enters The War: 1939 - 1942
"It was felt that Britain was trying to drag us in. There was even sentiment that England would fight to the last American" Norman Corwin, American Radio Journalist.- Director:
- Hugh Raggett
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- Sir Laurence Olivier, Christabel Bielenberg, Emmi Bonhoeffer
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During an ongoing battle for humanity, a group of rookie space fighter pilots is sent to join the battle against an armada of unbeatable enemy ships. When the trainee pilot and her gunner are shot down, they manage to crash land on a nearby planet. With the gunner mortally wounded and her own life support only set to last two days, the pilot's only option is to fix her ship. The sudden appearance of an enemy craft offers the answer, but as the pilot looks for parts to use on her own ship, she is horrified to spot another survivor; an enemy alien soldier who has no intention of letting her escape. - Director:
- Marc Price
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- Phoebe Sparrow, Daisy Aitkens, Simon Dwyer-Thomas
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During a manned mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead and left behind by his crew. But Watney is still alive, and he must now find a way to contact Earth - and survive on a barren planet with meagre supplies - in the hope that an international team of scientists can devise a near-impossible rescue plan to bring him home! - Director:
- Ridley Scott
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- Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig
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In the spectacular final chapter of the Star Wars saga, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) must travel to Tatooine to free Han Solo (Harrison Ford) by infiltrating the wretched stronghold of Jabba the Hutt, the galaxy's most loathsome gangster. Reunited, the Rebels team up with tribes of Ewoks to combat the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor. Meanwhile the Emperor and Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) conspire to turn Luke to the dark side, and young Skywalker is determined to rekindle the spirit of the Jedi within his father. The Galactic Civil War culminates in the ultimate showdown, as the Rebel forces gather to attack the seemingly defenseless and incomplete second Death Star in the battle that will determine the fate of the galaxy. - Director:
- Richard Marquand
- Cast:
- Frank Oz, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford
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Following the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces pursue the Rebel Alliance to the ice planet Hoth. After a devastating defeat, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with the Jedi Master Yoda. Meanwhile, in the Cloud City of Bespin, Darth Vader attempts to lure Luke into a trap by kidnapping Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher). When Luke comes to their rescue, he must fight a fierce lightsaber duel with Darth Vader himself and come face to face with a stunning revelation that could change his destiny. - Director:
- Irvin Kershner
- Cast:
- Mark Hamill, Jason Wingreen, Michael Santiago
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