Tony Benn
Birthday: 1925-04-03
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK
Biography: Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.
Movies
Tony Benn: Labour's Lost Leader
Obituary film of the lifelong Labour politician, Tony Benn, who was an MP for over 50 years. Born th...
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Laissez-faire
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
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Cabinet Confidential
A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime mini...
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How to Be Prime Minister
It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for t...
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for pol...
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Ethos
Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, Ethos lifts the lid on a Pandora...
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The Battle of Orgreave
Intercuts dramatic photographic stills from the clashes in 1984 with footage of the clashes re-enact...
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News from Durham
Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend...
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Tony Benn: Will and Testament
Tony Benn (87), the longest serving Labour MP in history, looks back over his life and career....
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Sicko
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
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Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn
To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Parliment, Tony Benn has been taking his video camera around t...
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Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
A film portrait of Former Conservative and Unionist Party Politician, Enoch Powell....
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London: The Modern Babylon
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the h...
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The Spirit of '45
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a visi...
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Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
The true life story of Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972) is in fact much more eccentric than the most ...
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Beyond and Behind the Vote
Documentation of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw Tony Benn returned to parliament, and ...
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The Scar
Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to cl...
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Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel
Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they we...
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, sing...
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The Red and the Blue
Ken Loach documentary, contrasting the 1982 Labour and Conservative Party conferences....
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Shades
1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-create...
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Blackpool Wakes
From political conferences to the George Formby Society's annual bash, and Pleasure Beach to the wea...
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Missing Presumed Wiped
Documentary about the lost episodes of Dad's Army (1968) and their recovery and restoration....
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Harold Wilson: A Life
BBC obituary documentary written and presented by Anthony Howard. Broadcast on the day of the death ...
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