Jeremy Irons
Birthday: 1948-09-19
Place of Birth: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Biography: Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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M. Butterfly
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Kingdom of Heaven
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
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The Time Machine
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The House of the Spirits
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Inland Empire
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Kafka
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Lynch 2
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Eragon
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Damage
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The Merchant of Venice
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Chinese Box
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The Mission
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Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
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The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
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Dungeons & Dragons
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The Lion King
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Architects of Ancient Arabia
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Dead Ringers
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Lolita
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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Earthquake On Everest
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Appaloosa
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Casanova
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The Cello
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Napoleon: In the Name of Art
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Moonlighting
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Stealing Beauty
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The Pink Panther 2
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Game of Lions
From award-winning filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joub...
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Reversal of Fortune
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The Voysey Inheritance
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Callas Forever
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Gallipoli
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Being Julia
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Longitude
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Margin Call
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
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Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
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The Last Lions
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Danny the Champion of the World
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The Words
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The Flash
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The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
This is the glorious story of the Hittites - the most powerful people in the Near East of their time...
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The Fourth Angel
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Goodbye Granadaland
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The Way of the Cheetah
This not to be missed story by award-winning filmmakers, conservationists Dereck and Beverly Jouber...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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Langrishe, Go Down
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Trashed
Actor Jeremy Irons investigates the global scale and impact of humanity's modern wasteful consumeris...
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Beautiful Creatures
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange...
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The Majestic Plastic Bag
This mockumentary is narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons and tracks the “migration” of a p...
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Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
National Geographic filmmakers, Dereck and Beverly Joubert, explore how some animals are thrust toge...
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Relentless Enemies: Revealed
A buffalo herd of over 1,200 is forced to move through three lion territories while being confined b...
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Eternal Enemies: Revealed
The film reveals the story of conflict between lions and hyenas, relatively unknown or even suspecte...
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Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
National Geographic filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert set out to create a film on leopards but n...
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Eye of the Leopard
Eye of the Leopard follows the remarkable life of one small leopard from when she is just 8 days old...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a w...
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Another Way Home
A look at the work of Slí Eile — a live-in centre for sufferers of mental illnesses in Cork, Ireland...
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Waterland
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment ...
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A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
An ex-soldier attempts to clear his name while being relentlessly tracked down for the murder and ra...
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz....
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Swann in Love
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitut...
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Night Train to Lisbon
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Betrayal
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological or...
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Last Call
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretar...
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Nijinsky
A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who ...
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Australia
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Tom Hanks: The Nomad
From humble beginnings to an aspiring thespian to acting as some of the world's most iconic and nota...
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The Beggar's Opera
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of a...
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Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
A retrospective of director Roland Joffé’s first four films....
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful ...
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Faeries
While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to ...
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Muse of Fire
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespear...
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Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave the...
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The Wild Duck
Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitima...
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Mathilde
A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation...
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Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's...
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Once Upon a Studio
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of lege...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists ...
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1984
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
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I Wish For You
A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfat...
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A Night to Die For
TV special worth watching if only for the incongruous interviews with Wayne Newton, Wayne Gretzky, K...
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The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
Kha, architect and builder of tombs for the pharaohs, must undertake the journey to the Underworld. ...
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Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
The documentary relates the decisive moments, the turning points and the rollercoaster ride of a bri...
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Eden at the End of the World
At the bottom of South America, where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans collide, is Patagonia, one of ...
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Correspondence
The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, i...
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The Beekeeper
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operat...
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Race
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field at...
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The Chronoscope
A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that co...
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Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Dereck and Beverly Joubert lead viewers on their incredible journey with big cats-from the first tim...
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Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Over eight years of filming in the northern wildernesses of Botswana, the Jouberts have now released...
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Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
It is a spectacle few have seen firsthand. Two foes trapped on an island in a remote part of Africa ...
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Quintessentially Irish
A celebration of all things Irish, from sweeping landscapes to traditions and quirky sense of humor....
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Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge Universi...
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time tha...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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The Genius of George Boole
Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...
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Assassin's Creed
Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum...
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The Well of Saint Nobody
Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local w...
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Encore
A best-agers comedy about former Broadway stars at a retirement home who decide to put on a show....
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The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Produced for the "Dungeons and Dragons" Special Edition DVD. This video gives fantasy film and game...
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The Statue of Liberty
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations ...
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The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
In honor of “The Lion King's” 30th Anniversary, the Hollywood Bowl transforms into the Pride Lands f...
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Endless Corridor
"Endless Corridor" is the definitive account of an agonizing human rights tragedy in which hundreds ...
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The Wind Gods
A feature length documentary film following Larry Ellison's 10-year quest to bring the oldest trophy...
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Justice League
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and D...
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The Dream
Starring Jeremy Irons in a one-man drama, adapted from a Dostoevsky short story by Murray Watts. In ...
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Their Finest
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resili...
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'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
A ballet about endangered species by David Bintley, orchestrated by Penguin Cafe Orchestra....
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Red Sparrow
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that...
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An Actor Prepares
After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across cou...
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J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
One of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) render...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
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Birds Like Us
The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves ...
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Better Start Running
An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of lo...
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of...
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The Sultan and the Saint
Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked...
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DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
A documentary special taking a look at the upcoming films making up the DC Universe. Kevin Smith hos...
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The Making of Dead Ringers
A short behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of "Dead Ringers," including interviews with writ...
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The Short Life of Anne Frank
The Short Life of Anne Frank tells her life through quotations from her diary, unique photographs fr...
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The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain...
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Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable mom...
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Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner sear...
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Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich...
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The Sunflower Superjam 2012
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Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...
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Emotional Uncertainties
In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bl...
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Munich – The Edge of War
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become rel...
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House of Gucci
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with D...
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Jade Eyed Leopard
A small leopard with aquamarine eyes learns the fundamental skills of survival during her first thre...
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The Path to Redemption
From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kin...
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
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Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Armin Mueller-Stahl was one of the few Germans to become a celebrated Hollywood actor. He had to sta...
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Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
This is the story of a one-legged tin soldier who goes through many perilous adventures in the outsi...
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Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)...
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The Captain's Doll
The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918...
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Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Discover the wildlife of Transylvania, a mysterious and secretive region hiding some of Europe's las...
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Palestine 36
1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and...
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The Merchant of Venice
A BBC schools programme broadcast about Tom Stoppard’s abridged version of the play which was perfor...
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The Crystal Planet
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Water People: The Story of Us
Follows six individuals — a navigator, freediver, surfer, shark whisperer, and two visionary scienti...
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Rizana: A Caged Bird
Based on the tragic true story of Rizana Nafeeq, a 17-year-old Sri Lankan woman who was executed by...
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Highlander
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From Time to Time
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Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
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Correspondence
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