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.
Særforestillingen fra Londons Victoria Palace Theatre bringer al humor, følelse og spænding fra den prisbelønnede Billy Elliot the Musical til DVD for allerførste gang. Oplev glæden ved denne enestående live event, der omfatter betagende optrædener og en unik finale, som forener 25 nuværende og tidligere Billy Elliots i et imponerende nummer. Billy Elliot the Musical, baseret på den Oscar®-nominerede film fra 2000, har vundet millioners hjerter siden den åbnede i Londons West End og er fortsat med at fascinere publikum verden over. Den foregår i en nordlig mineby under minestrejken i 1984/1985, hvor Billys rejse går fra bokseringen til en balletklasse, hvor han opdager en passion for dans, som inspirerer hans familie og lokalsamfundet, samt ændrer hans liv for altid.
Under Anden Verdenskrig flygter den unge jøde Shosanna til Paris efter at have set sin familie blive henrettet af naziobersten Landa. Samtidig samler den hårdkogte løjtnant Aldo Raine en gruppe jødisk-amerikanske soldater, der skal føre guerillakrig mod nazisterne i Europa. Det bringer dem til sidst til Paris, hvor Shosanna er blevet biografejer med egne planer om hævn mod Landa, Hitler og resten af nazislænget.
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.
Winston Churchill står over for et umuligt valg. Året er 1940, og den britiske statsmand er lige blevet udnævnt til premierminister. Situationen i Europa er desperat, og Hitlers tropper truer med at invadere Storbritannien. Skal Churchill forsøge at forhandle en fredsaftale på plads med Nazityskland? Eller skal briterne kæmpe videre i krigen mod forfærdelige odds?
Ny dansk dokumentarfilm afslører virkeligheden bag den globale våbenhandel - en branche, som tæller sin profit i milliarder og sine tab i menneskeliv. Gennem interviews med whistleblowers, efterforskere, anklagere samt insidere fra både militæret og militærindustrien, viser filmen hvordan våbenhandlen, med vores politiske ledere som villige mellemmænd, er drivkraften bag krig.
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.
I 1943 udtænker den tyske efterretningstjeneste en plan om at kidnappe Winston Churchill, der skal tilbringe en weekend i en landsby i det østlige England. Faldskærmssoldaten Kurt Steiner sættes i spidsen for operationen.
De to uforsonlige fjender på hver sin side af den brutale og mangeårige konflikt i Nordirland - politikeren og præsten fra Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley og Sinn Fein politikeren Martin McGuinness - mødes helt ekstraordinært for at forsøge at tale fredeligt sammen. Flere ting går ikke som planlagt, og de to mænd kommer på en uventet rejse.
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Købmandsdatteren Margaret vil være mønsterbryder og kæmper sig op til en magtfuld post i samfundet. I 1979 bliver hun valgt som Storbritanniens første kvindelige premierminister. Hendes uforsonlige linje giver hende tilnavnet Jernladyen blandt kolleger og vælgere. Heller ikke på hjemmefronten er Maggie Thatcher populær, idet både hendes mand, Denis, og parrets voksne datter, Carol, føler sig forsømt
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.
Den britiske premierminister Winston Churchill får et slagtilfælde i sommeren 1953, det bliver holdt hemmeligt for resten af verden.
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.
Winston Churchill drømmer allerede i en ung alder om en politisk karriere - en ambition, han har arvet efter sin far, ministeren Randolph Churchill. Han indser, at en succesfuld militærkarriere kan være et vigtigt springbræt i den retning. Det bringer ham bl.a. til Indien, Sudan og Sydafrika, inden han vender tilbage til England og som 26-årig bliver valgt som konservativt medlem af Underhuset.
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