As the Sandringham Company advanced onto the battlefield at Galipoli in WWI, a strange mist was seen to descend and engulf them, almost as though God was wrapping them up and taking them from the terror that awaited. It was the last that was ever seen of the men, a company drawn from the servants, grooms and gardeners of the King. An enigmatic and poignant mystery that survives to this day.
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (BBC) (1981)
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Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her? BBC doing the full text. As only they can do. Apparently.
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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)
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Based on the famous novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this is a lavish adaptation featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows. Anne Shirley is the orphan who finds herself in Green Gables as a struggling teenager. The tale follows her through dramas and triumphs as she blossoms into an independent woman. An epic drama.
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (1981)
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Colin Blakeley and Jane Lapotaire star as two of the most famous lovers in history in this superb Jonathan Miller directed adaptation of Shakespeare's turbulent script. The 16th Century setting gives a non-traditional feel, but the cast and direction are of the highest BBC standards.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 1 (2007)
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Fassbinder's staggering 15 1/2 hour epic is a monument of late 20th Century filmmaking and considered to be not only the director's masterpiece but one of the greatest TV series ever made.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 2 (2007)
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Ep 4, A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence; Franz goes on a bender and, later, bumps into Meck, who's moved on from hawking porn to selling clothes and seems to be doing well for himself. Meck also admits to having been living with Lina.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 3 (2007)
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Ep 7, Remember—An Oath can be Amputated; Franz has lost his right arm, but is looked after by Eva and her boyfriend.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 4 (2007)
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Ep 10, Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls; Mieze can't have children, but Eva tells her that she'll have a child by Franz for Mieze to raise. Frank gets freaked by the idea, thinking Mieze's trying to dump him on to Eva, and then a rich client turns up to take Mieze away for 3 days.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 5 (2007)
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Ep 13, The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret; Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Meck gets injured in a bank robbery and Franz helps him out. Meck leads the police to Mieze's body.
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BLACKADDER (SERIES 1) (1987)
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The first ever series of Blackadder and featuring the first in a long line of obnoxious Edmunds. In "Foretelling" he wakes late and goes into battle on the wrong side. Next he is haunted by the dead king, and finally he becomes an Archbishop! More of the first series with the idiotic first Edmund. In the first part of this he has to marry the hideous Queen of Spain. Next he has to find a witch to cure the King of the plague and finally he plots with the seven most evil men in the land to usurp t
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