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From acclaimed director Steve McQueen comes the incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. It is 1841 and Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbertder) and must find the strength within to survive. In his twelfth year in captivity, a chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.

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The handsome Aaron (Steve Sandvoss), a Mormon missionary, travels door-to-door in Los Angeles spreading the word of his religion. Christian (Wes Ramsey), a cute West Hollywood party boy, goes from man to man without much commitment.

Opposites soon attract when Aaron and Christian meet, and sparks begin to fly.

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

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Abu Shuki and his family have settled alone in a valley far from their home town. Tyrannical father Shukri, rules the home with an iron fist, forcing his wife and three children to burn fires all day to make charcoal.

When he decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their home, it awakens their instinct for freedom, but carries with it tragic consequences for the entire family.

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For centuries pilgrimage was one of the greatest adventures on earth, involving epic journeys across the country and around the world. This series sees Simon Reeve retrace the exciting adventures of our ancestors.

He meets inspirational modern travellers sees extraordinary sights and learns about the forgotten aspects of pilgrimage, including the vice, thrills and dangers that all awaited travellers. He explores the faith, the hopes desires, and even the food that helped to keep medieval Britons and more recent travellers on the road. Simon journeys first from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in northern England to Canterbury.Then through France an northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, before he crosses the mighty Alps on his way to Rome. Finally he heads east to glorious Istanbul,Turkey, then on to the Holy Land and his final destination, Jerusalem. In this series Simon will immerse himself in the pilgrimage experience of the past and the present: he will walk long hard miles, travel by sea, stay with monks, cross deserts and check points. He will encounter the kindness of strangers and the fellowship of walking the pilgrim routes. He will often forsake the modern comforts we have come to expect when travelling; he will sleep in dormitories with other pilgrims and eat their simple food. In re-living pilgrimage he will call upon numerous accounts of travellers, from across the centuries. Simon will explore how medieval Christianity changed from being at the centre of life, and death to the periphery of Victorian life and explore the impetus for our consumer driven society's return to pilgrimage. The age of Pilgrimage is back and Simon is about to go straight into it's heart. All the way to Jerusalem...

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The series explores the truth about the man who claimed to be the only Son of God by examining the accounts of Jesus' life according to the four Gospels and comparing these with the latest historical and archaeological evidence.

Interviews with the worlds leading experts set a grand historical context for specially commissioned dramatic re-enactments of Jesus life including some of his most famous miracles and sermons.
Beautifully filmed at key locations, this series brings one of the worlds greatest stories to life for a new generation of television viewers.

This box set contains all episodes from Season 3.

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Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood is a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians. Stories inter-weave as we follow the fate of five Ajami residents. 13-year-old Nasri and his older brother live in fear after their uncle foolishly wounds a prominent clan member.

Naive young Palestinian refugee Malek works illegally in Israel to help pay for the surgery that will save his mother. Wealthy Palestinian Binj dreams of a bright future with his Jewish girlfriend. And Jewish policeman Dando seeks revenge when his brother is found murdered in the West Bank. Conflicting religions and faiths finally reach breaking point failing to settle their disputes with diplomacy and never fearing to meet violence with violence.

Includes all episodes from fourth season.

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Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barney's Department Store's creative director Simon Doonan.

Set in Reading the series depicts the adolscences of the man who would grow up to become one of the richest and most powerful store owners in the world and starred Luke Ward-Wilkinson and Layton Williams.

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The Village is a BBC TV drama television series created by Peter Moffat. The series takes place in the Twentieth Century in a village in Derbyshire. Each season of the proposed forty-two hours of the series focuses on a different time.

Season one covered 1914 to 1920, season two continued into the 1920s, and additional seasons will be set during World War Two, its subsequent years, and further into the future. Cast includes John Simm and Maxine Peake.

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Bad Education is a British situation comedy that takes place in Abbey Grove, a fictional school in Watford, Hertfordshire.

The show follows Alfie Whiskers (portrayed by Jack Whitehall), and his troublesome teaching methods that prove his inclination more leaning toward the students he teaches, rather than identifying himself with his colleagues and the school’s headmaster Fraser, played by Mathew Horne.

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The Syndicate is a British drama series that follows a group of winners of a lottery. The series follows a group of people who have won the lottery as part of a joint syndicate as they share the money and use it in very different ways.

Each episode follows a specific member of the syndicate as they experience their new lives with their money but also struggle with parts of their past that cannot disappear overnight, even with the extensive amount of money each of them has won.

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Priscilla White is a typist from a working class area of Liverpool who dreams of stardom; Bobby Willis is the chancer who ignores the city's Protestant-Catholic divide to pursue her; Brian Epstein is the young genius who will later guide The Beatles to superstardom.

Starring Sheridan Smith 'Cilia' tells the true story of how the lives of these three intertwine to propel Cilia to the top of the charts and beyond... but at a cost. Cilia Black, as young Priscilla becomes, displays a ruthless streak that won't allow anything or anyone - including Bobby - to stand in her way. Epstein is tortured by his success and his sexuality - forced to keep his homosexuality hidden in an era when to be caught with another man could mean prison. Set to an explosion of 60s music as the 'Merseybeat' sounds grips the country, 'Cilla' explores the humble beginnings and little-known early years of a woman who went on to become an iconic TV star and household name.

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"Come and See" is one of the greatest war films ever made and one of the finest achievements of Soviet cinema.

A devastating account of the Nazi occupation of Belarussia during World War II, it tells the story of a young boy's abrupt loss of innocence when he joins the Soviet resistance and is thrust headlong into the brutal horrors of combat. Featuring terrifyingly authentic battle scenes and poetic, almost surreal imagery, director Elem Klimov has fashioned a vivid and unforgettably powerful portrait of the terrible atrocities committed by men in the name of war.