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Certification15 Our Rating

A caustic and often funny romp set 24 BC during the reign of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, and ends in AD 54 with Nero on the throne. Claudius (Jacobi) is Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, grandson of Mark Antony, who bears witness to the ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue of his remarkable family. For the most part he escapes their evil scheming by virtue of a stutter and limp that mark him as a fool. A remarkable, ground-breaking series, with towering perfo find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

A caustic and often funny romp set 24 BC during the reign of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, and ends in AD 54 with Nero on the throne. Claudius (Jacobi) is Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, grandson of Mark Antony, who bears witness to the ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue of his remarkable family. For the most part he escapes their evil scheming by virtue of a stutter and limp that mark him as a fool. A remarkable, ground-breaking series, with towering perfo find out more...
OMAGH (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

15 August 1998: the Real IRA exploded a bomb on a crowded street in Omagh, just into Northern Ireland, to halt the Good Friday accords and peace process; 29 people died. Families formed the Omagh Support Group to press the police in their inquiries. The film focuses on the Gallagher family, who lost their son Aiden. His father, Michael, a mechanic, becomes chair of the support group. The press for answers strains his relationship with his wife. High-ranking police speak in bromides. Shadowy figu find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

An ex-Hutu army officer, sentenced to death during the Rwandan genocide for his moderation and marriage to a Tutsi, tells his tragic tale, 10 years own, from the vantage point of his hate-inciting brother's trial for his part in the events. With unflinching flashbacks we watch in horror as events unfold, the mass murders, rapes and the bodies. Sometimes in April also reflects beyond merely the horror itself and wonders, with justifiable accusation, at the arms selling duplicity and irresponsibil find out more...
THE DEAL (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

The Deal, with David Morrissey as Gordon Brown and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, depicts the famed political legend that the two made a pact that Blair would step down as Prime Minister so that Brown could take his place. "The Deal" begins in 1983 as the two men are first elected to Parliament and concludes in 1994 at the Granita restaurant - the location of the supposed agreement - with a brief epilogue following the 1997 general election. A fictional drama yes, but a delicious voyeuristic delig find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Churchill is considered by many to have been a visionary and was certainly one of the most charismatic wartime leaders in history, often controversial, frequently antagonistic, and a great orator. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Peter Morgan is back at it again with this craftily scripted dramatic reconstruction of the political and personal chemistry between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair from Blair's initial 1992 introduction to the Clinton political machine, through Northern Ireland, Kosovo, the Lewinsky affair to the finale with the birth of Blair's disastrous alliance with Bush.
Blair actually comes out of this rather well, his initial naivete maturing into a series of moral and political triumphs... it just al find out more...
UPRISING (2001)

Certification12 Our Rating

The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghet find out more...