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Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Ring" is a classic 'love triangle' story of a woman trapped between prize fighting suitors.

Jack is at the top of his boxing game, but his newest challenger is more interested by his pretty fiancee than he is to get into the ring with the champ! The ultimate conflict of jealousy ensues!

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The birth of film coincided with the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.

Here, together for the first time, are the films of the great explorers Roald Amundsen, Nobu Shirase, Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose stories, together with those of Robert Falcon Scott (see the BFI's 'The Great White Silence') are of extraordinary human endurance and our relationship with the natural world, seen in dramatic moving images.

The Films Comprise:
- Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew (1898, 1 min)
- Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, NZ, 1st Jan, 1908 (1908, 8 mins)
- Nihon nankyoku tanken (1910-12, 19 mins)
- Fram's South Polar Expedition (1910-12, 22 mins)
- Australasian Antarctic Expedition Films aka The Home of the Blizzard (c 1916, 68 mins)
- Pathe's Animated Gazette No. 140 (extract, 1911, 45 secs)
- South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (Frank Hurley, 1919, 81 mins)
- Topical Budget - Dogs for the Antarctic (extract, 1914, 1 min)
- Dogs for the Antarctic - Sir Ernest Shackleton's dogs in quarantine at Beddington (extract, 1914, 45 secs)
- Australasian Gazette - Captain Davis returns to Sydney...(extract, 1917, 26 secs)
- The Late Sir Ernest Shackleton Bathing Query (extract, 1922, 2 mins)
- El Homenaje del Uruguay a los Restos de Sir Ernest Shackleton (1922, 11 mins)
- Shackleton's Funeral (extract, 1922, 4 mins)
- Shackleton South Georgia Birds (1920, 13 mins)

Based on the true story that will inspire the world. Richard Williams (Will Smith), father of legendary tennis champions Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) Williams, shows how family and perseverance can achieve the impossible and impact the world.

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In Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall', a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all - but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson), and a conspiracy theorist, KC Houseman (John Bradley), believe her. The unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.

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Valentine Wilmot (Jameson Thomas), the owner of the popular Piccadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles (Cyril Ritchard) has quit and that the public has judged Victors partner Mabel (Gilda Gray) as over the hill.

Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future. When a customer (Charles Laughton in his first feature film) complains of a dirty dish, Valentine discovers the answer to all his problems down in the clubs scullery...

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This compelling collection revisits the heyday of the supporting programme with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition.

Settle in for a strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness and oodles of atmosphere.

Lock Your Door (1949)
Master storyteller Algernon Blackwood relates his own tale of an elderly spinster overcome by ghostly voices and a creeping sense of horror in a remote country cottage.
The Reformation of St. Jules (1949)
There's something strange in the sky as sci-fi and religious revelation collide - and only legendary Weird Fiction writer Algernon Blackwood can suggest an explanation.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
Stanley Baker gives a virtuoso performance by candlelight as Edgar Allan Poe recounting his classic tale of horror.
Death Was a Passenger (1958)
A chance encounter with an enigmatic nun on a train evokes eerie, half-forgotten memories of a perilous wartime escape attempt in occupied France.
Portrait of a Matador (1958)
An artist becomes unhealthily obsessed with his painting of a dead bullfighter in this bizarre tale of romance, intrigue, insanity and auto-suggestion.
Twenty-Nine (1969)
Promiscuous young man Baird (Alexis Kanner) wakes up in a strange flat, wearing clothes that don't fit, with a hangover and a half-remembered memory of a visit to a strip club. What happened last night?
The Sex Victims (1973)
The bizarre sight of a naked woman on horseback leads an unwary truck driver into a supernatural spiral of pursuit and destruction in rural England.
The Lake (1978)
The tranquil stillness of a romantic picnic for young lovers Tony (Gene Foad) and Barbara (Julie Peasgood) is threatened by echoes of the horrific violence that happened nearby in this hauntingly evocative ghost story from Lindsey Vickers (The Appointment).
The Errand (1980)
A soldier at an elite military institution is sent on a strange and increasingly nightmarish mission in this full-on fever-dream thriller from long-time Pete Walker collaborator David McGillivray (House of Whipcord).

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Most leading documentarians in Britain today are women. 'The Camera is Ours' tells the story of some of the key female pioneers of the British documentary movement between the 1930s and the late 1960s.

It's a story that is beautifully captured in the collections held by the BFI National Archive, and one that is now made available to audiences through this new collection.

The Films:
- Beside the Seaside (1935)
- Behind the Scenes (1938)
- They Also Serve (1940)
- 4 and 20 Fit Girls (1940)
- The English Inn (1941)
- Birth-Day (1945)
- Homes for the People (1945)
- Children of the Ruins (1948)
- The Troubled Mind (1954)
- Something Nice to Eat (1967)

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"Sisters with Transistors" is the remarkable untold story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music. The history of women has been a history of silence. Music is no exception.

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"Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road" is a deeply personal documentary that explores the life and career of Brian Wilson, the legendary songwriter and co-founder of The Beach Boys, through a literal and metaphorical road trip across Los Angeles, Brian's hometown.

With Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine behind the wheel and Brian selecting the music, the two revisit many of the periods and locations integral in shaping Brian's life. Incorporating fascinating anecdotes and interviews with a diverse set of musicians that were profoundly inspired by Brian's musical legacy, including Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Nick Jonas, Linda Perry, Jakob Dylan and Taylor Hawkins, the film also features over 50 of Brian's most iconic hits, rare tracks, never-before-heard demos, and his own personal home movies and photo albums. With honesty and humour, this intimate, unconventional, and deeply revealing portrait of one of rock and roll's most legendary - and most enigmatic - icons, explores The Beach Boys cofounder's life in music, his struggles with mental illness, and the daily rhythms of his life.

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Sebastian Faulks' epic love story set against the First World War, which became a modern classic when it was published in 1993, is adapted for the screen for the first time by Abi Morgan.

The action of the two part film moves between 1910 and 1916, telling the story of Stephen Wraysford (Eddie Redmayne), a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire (ClémencePoésy). They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. As he battles amidst the blood and gore of the trenches he meets Jack Firebrace (Joseph Mawle), a tunneller who unexpectedly helps him endure the ravages of war and enables him to make peace with his feelings for Isabelle.

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The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

Moving from the late 1800's through to the 1930's, we follow the incredible adventures of this inspiring, unsung hero, as he seeks to unlock the "electrical" mysteries of the world and, in so doing, to better understand his own life and the profound love he shared with his wife Emily Richardson (Claire Foy).

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'Petite Maman' is a sublime modern fairytale about the quiet wonder of mother-daughter relationships. After the death of her beloved grandmother (Margot Abascal), eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) meets a mysterious friend in the woods.

Together they embark on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps Nelly come to terms with this newfound loss. Celine Sciamma's new masterwork examines childhood, memory and loss with a typically delicate touch, elegantly weaved together into an enchanting and moving depiction of love and acceptance.

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Shot in glorious Technicolor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gives a dashing performance as the romantic treasure seeker and adventurer, Sinbad.

Ably assisted by his comic sidekick Abbu (George Tobias) and the inscrutable Chinese sage Milek (Walter Slezak), Sinbad learns that he is a prince and goes in search of his birthright: the lost treasure of Alexander the Great. But as he prepares to set sail, the evil Emir (Anthony Quinn) enlists the help of the beautiful but calculating Shireen (Maureen O'Hara) to lure Sinbad into believing that she loves him, and thereby leading the Emir to Alexander's buried treasure...

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Karl Verloc (Oskar Homolka), manager of a London cinema, is secretly involved with a gang of European saboteurs who are plotting a massive bomb attack in Piccadilly Circus.

With the police already suspicious of Verloc, they place an undercover detective on his trail - can he bring the saboteurs to justice before they perpetrate their outrage on London?

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The first official feature documentary celebrating the incredible life of one of the most influential icons of the 20th Century, fashion designer Dame Mary Quant.

Featuring contributions from Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Edward Enninful, Dave Davies, Charlotte Tilbury, Jasper Conran and Zandra Rhodes as well as Mary's family and peers.