Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce

Birthday: 1947-06-01

Place of Birth: Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Biography: Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the 2019 film "The Two Popes." After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film "Brazil". Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as "Evita", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The New World", as well as independent projects such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Carrington". His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in "Comedians", the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical "Miss Saigon".

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daug...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' ...

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Brazil
Brazil

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow f...

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Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against eac...

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Bedtime Stories
Bedtime Stories

Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and neph...

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Stigmata
Stigmata

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent expe...

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An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Behind the scenes documentary of the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, f...

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David
David

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

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What a Girl Wants
What a Girl Wants

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

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The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, ...

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The Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending ...

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Leatherheads
Leatherheads

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war ...

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Soul of the Ocean
Soul of the Ocean

The undersea world has often been depicted as a dangerous place filled with lethal predators. A worl...

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Haunted Honeymoon
Haunted Honeymoon

Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced ...

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Ronin
Ronin

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its w...

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twiste...

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Evita
Evita

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the ...

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran sales...

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The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

In the mid-nineteenth century an artist named Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins had one ambition: to show ...

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Breaking Glass
Breaking Glass

Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in th...

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Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of ...

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A Troll in Central Park
A Troll in Central Park

A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws requir...

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Taliesin Jones
Taliesin Jones

Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite...

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfi...

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The Rachel Papers
The Rachel Papers

Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a rom...

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest i...

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De-Lovely
De-Lovely

From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thom...

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Very Annie Mary
Very Annie Mary

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suff...

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Echelon Conspiracy
Echelon Conspiracy

Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the t...

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City State
City State

A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart...

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The Moon and the Stars
The Moon and the Stars

1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension fa...

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Carrington
Carrington

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey....

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Regeneration
Regeneration

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, alon...

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The Affair of the Necklace
The Affair of the Necklace

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in th...

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The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, ...

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A Business Affair
A Business Affair

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Ale...

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Flavia de Luce
Flavia de Luce

The adventures of 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is both an amateur detective and a master poisoner...

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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar...

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This f...

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Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....

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Hysteria
Hysteria

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ...

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Bride of the Wind
Bride of the Wind

A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Wer...

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My Zinc Bed
My Zinc Bed

A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict....

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Patience (After Sebald)
Patience (After Sebald)

A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offe...

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Loophole
Loophole

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money i...

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Great Moments in Aviation
Great Moments in Aviation

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the f...

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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorc...

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Quest for the Giant Squid
Quest for the Giant Squid

The quest led by well respected scientists to record the Giant Squid....

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Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane

A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin...

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The Ploughman's Lunch
The Ploughman's Lunch

As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb u...

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Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss

300 miles off the coast of North America, in the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean, a group of ships...

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Consuming Passions
Consuming Passions

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic acci...

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The Man from the Pru
The Man from the Pru

The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investig...

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Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

'Hey, Mr Producer!' features selected scenes from the productions of the world's most successful mus...

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The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon

A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including foota...

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Deadly Advice
Deadly Advice

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel...

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Listen Up Philip
Listen Up Philip

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his a...

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The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club

A man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will ...

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The Witness is a Whale
The Witness is a Whale

Archival footage, hidden documents, and personal records reveal one of the greatest environmental cr...

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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his dead...

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William Tell
William Tell

The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Ho...

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Man on Fire
Man on Fire

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daug...

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Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood

An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's ra...

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Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what...

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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and ch...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foi...

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The Salvation
The Salvation

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury o...

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The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking

In the year Queen Elizabeth marks her 70th on the throne, Fortnum & Mason has challenged home bakers...

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One Life
One Life

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in ...

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Dough
Dough

An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accident...

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The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons

In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his co...

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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters...

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Comedians
Comedians

Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring wor...

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Mad Dogs
Mad Dogs

London, one year from today... The dogs of England are dying, of "Mad Dog Disease," and Rabbie Burns...

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Narcopolis
Narcopolis

In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational dru...

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Brothers of the Head
Brothers of the Head

In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish ro...

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A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'

Documentary about the making of Alan Parker's film adaptation of the stage musical EVITA....

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The Healer
The Healer

The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps ...

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The Wife
The Wife

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated t...

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King Lear
King Lear

Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdic...

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Best Ever Bond
Best Ever Bond

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast...

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Thicker Than Water
Thicker Than Water

Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increa...

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The White King
The White King

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world...

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What Is Brazil?
What Is Brazil?

Rob Hedden's witty on-set documentary captures the revolutionary air that had begun to swirl around ...

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Shylock's Ghost
Shylock's Ghost

As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after S...

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Woman in Gold
Woman in Gold

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world f...

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Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "frien...

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The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder my...

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Shopping
Shopping

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram...

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Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as ...

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Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Aberfan: The Green Hollow

A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and ...

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Sluizer Speaks
Sluizer Speaks

Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the...

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To Walk Invisible
To Walk Invisible

To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these re...

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Tales from the Madhouse
Tales from the Madhouse

Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters re...

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Murder Is Easy
Murder Is Easy

American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She re...

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The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Man Who Invented Christmas

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

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Becoming Cary Grant
Becoming Cary Grant

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...

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Martin Luther, Heretic
Martin Luther, Heretic

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantis...

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Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance

The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young Vietnamese bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who fal...

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An Audience with Mel Brooks
An Audience with Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft,...

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The Day Christ Died
The Day Christ Died

A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Cruc...

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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish sh...

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To Provide All People
To Provide All People

To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journ...

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The Two Popes
The Two Popes

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 201...

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The Caretaker
The Caretaker

The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist....

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Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began...

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Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love

After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox,...

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David Bowie - Sound and Vision
David Bowie - Sound and Vision

A documentary, which takes you on a journey of Bowie's revolutionary career, struggle with his perso...

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He Dreams of Giants
He Dreams of Giants

15 years after "Lost in la Mancha", Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam's ...

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The Ghost and the Whale
The Ghost and the Whale

A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothe...

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The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life

Behind the scenes of The Brothers Grimm...

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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with th...

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A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses

A young boy, confined to his bed, uses his imagination to find the fun and excitement he can't exper...

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The Death of a Young Young Man
The Death of a Young Young Man

Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower bl...

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Deceit
Deceit

A reputed art critic convinces a young actress to play for him alone the role of a mysterious and se...

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All the Old Knives
All the Old Knives

When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their liv...

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Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Piney: The Lonesome Pine

A cheerful Welsh girl grows a talking pine named PINEY to be her Christmas tree, but when he's accid...

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Highly Classified: The World of 007
Highly Classified: The World of 007

His world is full of glamour, mystery and intrigue and now you get to be a part of it! Let gadget wi...

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The Secrets of 007
The Secrets of 007

Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series....

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Save the Cinema
Save the Cinema

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who b...

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The New World
The New World

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...

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The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The winner will win ...

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Dark Blood
Dark Blood

Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, ...

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Stories of You and I
Stories of You and I

Narrated by Academy Award Nominee, Jonathan Pryce, 'Stories of You and I' is an open letter to the E...

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Play Things
Play Things

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Pe...

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Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching

As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial po...

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For Tea on Sunday
For Tea on Sunday

An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party....

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Victoria & Albert
Victoria & Albert

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in...

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Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life

Glimpse the epic scale of Game of Thrones in this featurette that spends one day touring various Sea...

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The World Within Us
The World Within Us

Voiced by Jonathan Pryce, Terry Flaxton’s The World Within Us is a lyrical meditation set inside the...

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Sleeping Lions
Sleeping Lions

The dying Earl of Warbeck summons his nearest and dearest for a final Christmas at Warbeck Hall. A s...

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The Spirit of 1926
The Spirit of 1926

In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit...

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Gone Hollywood
Gone Hollywood

A look at how Hollywood talent agencies were run in the 1980s....

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One Last Dance
One Last Dance

One Last Dance is a story about the texture of memory, lost love and the haunting intimacy of a danc...

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Keep Her Quiet
Keep Her Quiet

Gülmira, a Uyghur journalist in Washington DC, risks everything to bring the disappearance of her pe...

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