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The Lost Pirate Kingdom

The Lost Pirate Kingdom

The Lost Pirate Kingdom
TMDb: 8
43 min

The real-life pirates of the Caribbean violently plunder the world’s riches and form a surprisingly egalitarian republic in this documentary series.

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Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers
IMDb: 7.6
84

Two Christian hitmen brothers are hired to assassinate a famed atheist writer.

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
IMDb: 4.2
110

The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
TMDb: 8.5
50 min

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.

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Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
IMDb: 6.5
N/A

Roman teenager Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to “miserable, cold, wet Britain” where…

Tolkien

Tolkien

Tolkien
IMDb: 7.5
112

Explore the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak…

Genre: Drama
Vicious

Vicious

Vicious
TMDb: 7.9
22 min

Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is…

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Genre: Comedy
Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco
IMDb: 5.7
103

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming…

Ironclad

Ironclad

Ironclad
IMDb: 6.2
121

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the…

Gladiator

Gladiator

Gladiator
IMDb: 8.5
155

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted generals and a…

There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons
IMDb: 5.8
112

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and…

Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution
IMDb: 6.7
106

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael,…

Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella
IMDb: 6.9
105

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella’s fortunes begin to…

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax
TMDb: 6.6
60 min

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Endgame

Endgame

Endgame
IMDb: 6.3
109

The time is the late ’80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National…

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
IMDb: 6.4
90

Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech
IMDb: 8.0
118

The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George (‘Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne….

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 7.0
105

“I have a gift for disaster,” says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.

Henry V

Henry V

Henry V
IMDb: 7.7
137

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France.

Dead Again

Dead Again

Dead Again
IMDb: 7.0
107

In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up…

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.1
115

When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service’s African section, is seen taking a file with him to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may…

Margot

Margot

Margot
IMDb: 6.3
85

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal…

Genre: Biography, Drama
The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH
IMDb: 7.6
82

A widowed field mouse must move her family — including an ailing son — to escape a farmer’s plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab…

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm
IMDb: 7.6
94

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

Stratton

Stratton

Stratton
IMDb: 4.8
94

A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

Genre: Action, Thriller
The History of Love

The History of Love

The History of Love
IMDb: 6.3
134

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness.

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider
IMDb: 6.4
118

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.

Bye Bye Blackbird

Bye Bye Blackbird

Bye Bye Blackbird
IMDb: 5.5
99

A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Basil

Basil

Basil
IMDb: 6.9
113

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

Genre: Drama, Romance