It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians. But this fragile alliance lasts only until October, when another election is called. This time, Labour win with a tiny majority of just three. Now things get tougher as old cross-Party agreements break down and even sick and dying MPs are wheeled into the chamber to cast their votes! James Graham's acclaimed new play whisks us back to the days of the UK's previous hung Parliament, when politics got really dirty in the battle for power.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
في فرنسا التي احتلها النازيون خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية ، تم اختيار مجموعة من الجنود الأمريكيين اليهود المعروفين باسم "الباستردز" على وجه التحديد لنشر الخوف في جميع أنحاء الرايخ الثالث عن طريق المضاربة وقتل النازيين بوحشية. سرعان ما التقى آل باستردز بقيادة الملازم ألدو راين مع فتاة مراهقة فرنسية يهودية تدير مسرحًا للسينما في باريس استهدفها الجنود.
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
تبدأ قصة حقيقية مثيرة وملهمة عشية الحرب العالمية الثانية ، حيث يتعين على ونستون تشرشل ، في غضون أيام من توليه منصب رئيس وزراء بريطانيا العظمى ، مواجهة واحدة من أكثر محاكماته اضطرابا وتحديدا: استكشاف معاهدة سلام متفاوض عليها مع ألمانيا النازية ، أو الوقوف بحزم للقتال من أجل المثل العليا والحرية والحرية للأمة. مع مرور القوات النازية التي لا يمكن إيقافها عبر أوروبا الغربية وتهديد الغزو وشيك ، ومع وجود جمهور غير مستعد ، وملك متشكك ، وحزبه يتآمر ضده ، يجب على تشرشل الصمود في أحلك ساعاته ، وحشد أمة ، ومحاولة تغيير مسار تاريخ العالم.
A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.
Portrait of a political animal who made provocation a weapon, before seeing it turned against him. From Brexit to pandemic, an X-ray of power according to "BoJo."
This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the dark days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London. The programme combines superb archive film from the Imperial War Museum’s vast collection, with atmospheric dramatisations actually filmed inside the Cabinet War Rooms – the real locations from where Churchill led the nation. Includes first-hand accounts which reveal the challenges of working with Britain’s bullish war leader at close quarters.
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
السير روبرت شيلتيرن هو وزير حكومي ناجح ، ميسور الحال وله زوجة محبة. كل هذا مهدد عندما تظهر السيدة شفيلي في لندن بأدلة دامغة على ارتكاب جريمة في الماضي. يلجأ السير روبرت لطلب المساعدة إلى صديقه اللورد جورنج ، وهو على ما يبدو صائد نباتات عاطل ويأس والده. يعرف غورينغ السيدة العجوز ، وبالنسبة له يأخذ الأمر برمته على محمل الجد.
نظرة على حياة مارغريت تاتشر ، رئيسة الوزراء السابقة للمملكة المتحدة ، مع التركيز على الثمن الذي دفعته مقابل السلطة.
What started as a drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has become a real life investigation of contradicting versions of the crime.
A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy' - every film a crime. The collective at Handsome Dog have used the best of new media to present a video polemic based on Heathcote William's investigative poem "Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy". Sixteen short films have been made the chronicle the crimes of the Royal Family and their ancestors: RB intro, Killing an Ibis, Mad Monarchs, Michael X, Harry Trouble, I Danced with a Man, Foot in Mouth, Folk on the Hill, Knight Hoods, Milton Gas, Swift Justice, Raj Doubt, Gaunt etc., Koh i Noor, Paine and Thoth, Blake Acres Zappa, Glitter Freeze. Written by Margaret Cox