Ewan McGregor
Birthday: 1971-03-31
Place of Birth: Perth, Scotland, UK
Biography: Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 31, 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity. While studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, McGregor began his career with a leading role in the British series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He gained international recognition for starring as drug addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996) and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005). His career progressed with starring roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), action film Black Hawk Down (2001), fantasy film Big Fish (2003), and thriller Angels and Demons (2009). He gained praise for his performances in the thriller The Ghost Writer (2010) and romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). McGregor made his directorial debut with the crime film American Pastoral (2016), in which he also starred. For his dual role as brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy in the third season of the anthology series Fargo (2017), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast (2017), and played the title role in Christopher Robin (2018), Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in Birds of Prey (2020). He reprised his role as Kenobi in the 2022 miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of fashion designer Halston in the miniseries Halston (2021). McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004.
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Young Adam
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...
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Black Hawk Down
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
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Big Fish
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall ...
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Trainspotting
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...
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The Island
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of...
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Nightwatch
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...
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Moulin Rouge!
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
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Velvet Goldmine
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evi...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-W...
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power – and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywal...
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who clai...
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Emma
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...
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Down with Love
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author....
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Cassandra's Dream
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime...
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Faster
Faster is an electrifying tribute to the white-knuckle world of MotoGP™ — the fastest sport on two w...
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Rogue Trader
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successfu...
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The Ghost Writer
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Ada...
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Stay
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to dia...
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A Life Less Ordinary
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised ...
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Little Voice
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and har...
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I Love You Phillip Morris
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married...
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Amelia
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
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Brassed Off
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Gri...
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The Pillow Book
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher....
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Robots
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until t...
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Deception
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without...
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Stormbreaker
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle ...
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Shallow Grave
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to h...
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Angels & Demons
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of...
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm whil...
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Nora
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She ...
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Miss Potter
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for ...
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Valiant
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears th...
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50 Films to See Before You Die
Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of th...
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Incendiary
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a so...
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The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO & THE KENTUCKY KID is the electrifying follow-up to Mark Neale’s 2004 MotoGP...
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The Battle of Britain
Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battl...
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The Serpent's Kiss
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he...
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved ...
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Eye of the Beholder
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a seria...
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Blue Juice
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the ...
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Spooks & Creeps
This compendium of six horror shorts starring Matthew Glave, Alice Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Rebecca...
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The Impossible
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in...
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Jack the Giant Slayer
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway betw...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sp...
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Perfect Sense
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilli...
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Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
This documentary offers a glimpse into all the people, departments, and work that went into creating...
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Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep...
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Beginners
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passe...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Jackboots on Whitehall
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band t...
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Solid Geometry
A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfath...
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August: Osage County
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have d...
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T2 Trainspotting
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, S...
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WAMEGO: Addendum
Part 4 of the award-winning Wamego documentary series. It's a slice-of-life during the marketing of...
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Jane Got a Gun
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly rea...
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Charge
CHARGE is proof that maniacs on motorcycles can be a force for global good. The movie follows severa...
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Mortdecai
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code th...
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Desserts
One fine day, a solitary man walking alone on a deserted beach, minding his own business, suddenly d...
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Our Kind of Traitor
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian mil...
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Troy's Story
From humble beginnings growing up on wheat farm in outback Australia Troy one day dreamed of racing ...
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Bleeding Love
In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road tr...
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Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world - yet he ended his days...
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Ice Bear
Sculptor Mark Coreth captures the essence of the Arctic in the form of a life-sized ice-sculpture of...
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ew...
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Son of a Gun
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found ...
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Last Days in the Desert
On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis...
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Mother, Couch
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furnitur...
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Killing Priscilla
Lizzie Gardiner, Oscar-winning costume designer and long-standing friend of Stephan Elliott (Priscil...
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American Pastoral
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new po...
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Flowervale Street
A family in the '80s start to notice bizarre happenings in their neighborhood. Rumored to be a time-...
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Being Human
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart....
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captur...
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Live 8
On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIV...
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Bomber Boys
Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film explo...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the...
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Beauty and the Beast
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful ...
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Doggin' Around
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire ...
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The Beginning: Making Episode I
The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this ...
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Humpback Whales
Humpback Whales takes audiences to Alaska, Hawaii and the Kingdom of Tonga for a close-up look at ho...
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The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
The Bug is about one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles on the planet: The Volkswagen Bee...
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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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Zoe
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic rel...
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Red Point
A businessman is accidentally mistaken for a murderer of an important person and becomes a fugitive....
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Welcome to Hollywood
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood......
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Anno Domini
Belfast, Christmas 1999. A poor, badly dressed woman is half walking, half stumbling down the road. ...
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Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
Documentary on the life & times of 1976 & 1977 500cc World Motorbike Racing Champion Barry Sheene fe...
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The Land of Sometimes
On Christmas Eve, twins Alfie and Elise struggle with the absence of their father. Elise dreams of e...
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Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and l...
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And the Winner Isn't
A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, ...
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Faster & Faster
Faster & Faster brilliantly captures the events which made the 2003 and 2004 MotoGP seasons so extra...
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From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
For Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), there were to be many more visual effects t...
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RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies in some...
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The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
This made-for-tv documentary treats romance fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moulin...
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The Cow
A World War II American pilot hatches a plan to use a cow to help him avoid capture and find his way...
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Doctor Sleep
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghos...
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Teenage Wildlife
Teenage Wildlife is a documentary of Ash's 1977 tour, which is narrated by Ewan McGregor...
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who...
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Fastest
What does it take to be the fastest? From award-winning filmmaker Mark Neale, comes Fastest, a spect...
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The Birthday Cake
On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a c...
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The Story of Star Wars
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and An...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Damero...
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Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to...
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Wild Ways of the Vikings
Ewan McGregor narrates a unique nature special looking at the wildlife of the North Atlantic through...
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star War...
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A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Behind the scenes documentary short for the movie "Christopher Robin"....
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Raymond & Ray
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final w...
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Happy M’Gee
In the near future a neurodiverse man causes a fatal accident with deadly repercussions for his brot...
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The New Ten Commandments
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scotti...
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Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
"Return to the Overlook" is a behind-the-scenes featurette exploring the meticulous recreation of th...
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The Dark Fantastic
The Dark Fantastic is a psychedelic journey into the mind of renowned composer Simon Boswell, blendi...
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Memories of "Trainspotting"
This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, p...
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