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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.

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Emotionally moving and brimming with youthful energy, Eytan Fox's The Bubble is a snapshot of three Tel Aviv Friends.

Their lives filled with trendy cafes, boutiques and the occasional sexual adventures, the trio seek refuge in their metropolitan "bubble," isolating them from the omnipresent fear of modern warfare around them. But when young Noam falls in love with a Palestinian man named Ashraf, a chain of events is set in motion threatening their naive, idealistic existence.

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The story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history.

Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

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In 1787 Britain banished its unwanted citizens - orphans, petty thieves, prostitutes and highwaymen to Sydney in Australia. Among the first convicts are close friends Elizabeth Quinn (MyAnna Buring), Tommy Barrett (Julian Rihind-Tutt) and James Freeman (Russell Tovey).

When Elizabeth and Tommy's illicit relationship is revealed to those in charge, it sets in motion a series of events that forces the pragmatic, idealistic Governor Phillip (David Wenham) into further opposition with his nemesis Major Ross. Their relationship also threatens the close bond between Elizabeth, Tommy and James at a time, and in a place, where survival depends on having the support of those you love.

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A story of love, class, sex and money, The Line of Beauty crawls deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain. Framed by the two general elections which returned the Conservative government to power, the series unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.

Nick Guest, a young, gay Oxford graduate of modest means, is invited to stay with the wealthy Fedden family at their home in west London. Dysfunction and glamour come in equal measure with the Feddens: father Gerald, a Tory MP consumed by his rising status within the party; wife Rachel who barely recognises her manic-depressive daughter Catherine; and son Toby, for whom Nick has had a secret crush ever since their time together at Oxford. Drifting through this world of wealth and power, of cocaine-fuelled country house parties and political soirees, Nick becomes entranced by their powerful, privileged life. But even the comfortable world f the Feddens and their social circle has cracks running through it - cracks that will profoundly affect Nick's life.

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In this business there are rules; hard, fast, unshakable rules that mean the difference between life and death...

As the best hit man in the business Roy (Tim Roth) is only too aware of the perils of breaking this code but when the local crime boss (Peter Mullan) instructs him to take on an unlikely apprentice (Jack O'Connell) the rule-book is thrown out the window. The result is an explosive fight for survival which will see them employ every trick in the trigger-man's book to catch the most dangerous target they've ever faced.
Welcome to the world of the professional killer...

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Acid house has arrived and friends Matt (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) and Dylan (Jack O'Connell) are at the heart of it. This is their story.

Tired of scamming their way through life, Matt and Dylan put together their first rave with the help of their mates and the maddest DJ on the scene, Captain Acid (Tom Meeten). When their success catches the eye of a London clubbing kingpin the boys are whisked away into a VIP world of Ibiza villas, cash, dancefloor anthems, drugs and temptation. As their success grows rival promoter and gangster John the Rat (Ben Batt) threatens everything that Matt and Dylan have worked for. What begins as a celebration of music and friendship soon turns dark, dangerous and deadly.

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The Lazarus Phenomenon examines two true life documented accounts of men from different parts of the world each having a real life experience with life after death.

A pastor who tragically dies in an automobile accident experiences an encounter beyond the grave only to come back to life over 48 hours later. Before your eyes on actual footage captured that day the dead pastor begins to breathe again and comes back to life. With a signed death certificate in his hand he returns to spread the Word of God and tell his story of an encounter beyond the grave. Ian McCormack never gave God much thought nor did he think about life after death until one tragic night he is stung multiple times by deadly jellyfish off the coast of a small island in the Pacific. A surfer, diver and worldwide adventurer finds himself desperately seeking medical help after a deadly nighttime diving encounter. Through a tragedy of events re-enacted on this program he cannot get treatment in time and the poison from the venomous jellyfish exact their deadly toll. He departs this life only to catch a glimpse of what awaits us on the other side of the grave. These two stories will both shock you and intrigue you. Are you ready for what lies ahead? What happens when you die?

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The 'Star of Bethlehem', also called the 'Christmas Star', is one of the world's greatest mysteries and one of the most important Christian symbols. It led the Magi on a search for a new Messiah, yet nobody else saw it.

Was it a spectacular comet, a blazing supernova, or an astrologically significant alignment of planets? Gathering evidence from Bethlehem to Babylon, the catacombs of Rome to the vaults of the British Museum, this is a quest to uncover the celestial truth behind this most famous of stars. What did the Magi really see 2000 years ago?

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Born in 1412, Joan of Arc - famous forever as the Maid of Orleans - was arguably one of the most remarkable women ever to grace the pages of history.

Although Joan was born to well-off peasant folk, she had no formal education; but at the age of thirteen she heard her 'voices' for the first time - voices she believed belonged to St. Michael and St. Catherine, telling her to rescue the Paris region from English domination. And that's what the incredible teenage girl did; clad in armour at the head of a French army of resistance, she ejected the English from Orleans and had Charles VII crowned in Reims Cathedral. Featuring authentic recreations and re-constructions, this is the story of one of the first in history to die for a Christian-inspired nationalism.

They're young, they're rich, they're sexy, and they've got everything that money and fame can buy. They should be having the time of their lives...

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The year is 2157: Maxim is on a mission in deep space when his ship crashes on an unknown planet. Despite the highly advanced weaponry and technology developed by the plane tyrannical leaders, he finds the general population suffering under cruel medieval living conditions.

After discovering he will never be able to return home, Maxim joins forces with a local girl and her brother and launches an uprising to overthrow the planet's totalitarian system and its mind-controlling dictators. An epic battle commences...

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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.

At his own risk, Daniel solicits Marek, one of the Eastern European boys that hangs around the Gare du Nord. He invites Marek to his home but when the doorbell rings and it isn't Marek standing there, Daniel realises he has fallen into a trap.