In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. This title recreates the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies: the world of Enoch Powell & Tony Benn, David Bowie & Brian Clough, Germaine Greer & Mary Whitehouse. ...

A superb blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense & thought provoking commentary on how information is manipulated in the modern ...

Jack & Cindy meet at a friend's party, are instantly drawn to one another, & over the next seven years they come to realise the truth about themselves & their feelings for each other. They think their love has been tested to the limit, but when Cindy falls seriously ill, they face their greatest challenge. ...

Investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art
- in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered
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Political thriller based on the acclaimed 2003 BBC mini-series. With the action transposed from Westminster to Washington, the film follows the investigations of journalist Cal Mc Affrey (Russell Crowe) as he probes into the suspicious death of the mistress & former research assistant of ambitious up-&-coming Congressman & potential presidential candidate Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck). As he works alongside the police on the case, Mc Affrey becomes romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). ...

Political thriller based on the acclaimed 2003 BBC mini-series. With the action transposed from Westminster to Washington, the film follows the investigations of journalist Cal Mc Affrey (Russell Crowe) as he probes into the suspicious death of the mistress & former research assistant of ambitious up-&-coming Congressman & potential presidential candidate Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck). As he works alongside the police on the case, Mc Affrey becomes romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). ...

Triple bill of films starring Russell Crowe. ' State of Play' (2009) is a political thriller based on the acclaimed 2003 BBC mini-series. With the action transposed from Westminster to Washington, the film follows the investigations of journalist Cal Mc Affrey (Crowe) as he probes into the suspicious death of the mistress & former research assistant of ambitious up-&-coming Congressman & potential presidential candidate Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck). As he works alongside the police on the case, Mc Affrey becomes romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). Ridley Scott's Roman epic ' Gladiator' (2000) draws its inspiration from Anthony Mann's ' The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) & Stanley Kubrick's ' Spartacus' (1960). After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) betrays the Emperor's beloved General Maximus (Crowe) & takes the throne for himself. Maximus is sold as a slave & then trained as a gladiator, keeping himself strong with thoughts of revenge. Eventually he is taken to the Colosseum, where he prepares to fight in a contest presided over by the corrupt Commodus. Will he suffer the ultimate humiliation & die for the entertainment of his enemy or will he survive the rigors of the arena & find a way of exacting his revenge? Ridley Scott also directs ' American Gangster' (2007), a biopic of 1970s Harlem drug baron Frank Lucas. When his boss dies, underworld driver Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) seizes his chance & begins to build his own criminal empire. Utilising the bodies of dead US soldiers, Lucas begins importing heroin direct from South-East Asia, increasing purity on the street, & undercutting his rivals in one swoop. Before long he's amassed a fortune, bringing him to the attention of maverick policeman Ritchie Roberts (Crowe), an honest cop in an otherwise corrupt force, who makes it his business to shut Lucas down. ...