Michael Gough

Michael Gough

Birthday: 1916-11-23

Place of Birth: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Biography: Francis Michael Gough (23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher Batman series.

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Batman
Batman

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fight...

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Batman Returns
Batman Returns

The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candid...

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Batman Forever
Batman Forever

Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harv...

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Batman & Robin
Batman & Robin

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new vill...

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Out of Africa
Out of Africa

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, w...

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Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworl...

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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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The Fourth Protocol
The Fourth Protocol

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the ...

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Caravaggio
Caravaggio

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...

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Horror Hospital
Horror Hospital

Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehou...

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Satan's Slave
Satan's Slave

A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one a...

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Crucible of Horror
Crucible of Horror

A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch....

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Black Zoo
Black Zoo

Michael Conrad, owner of a group of strange animals, trains his beasts to obey him, unleashing them ...

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Venom
Venom

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev...

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The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the powe...

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Dracula
Dracula

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he ...

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The Peaceful Inn
The Peaceful Inn

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrives at a mysterious ...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on ...

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Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh
Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh

In "Frankenpooh", it's a dark night in the Hundred Acre Wood, and Piglet wants to tell a nice, not-s...

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Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh
Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh

In a "Knight to Remember", during a rainy day in Christopher Robin’s attic, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Ra...

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Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun
Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun

Winnie the Pooh's Spookable Fun is a Walt Disney video release containing five terror-themed episode...

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The Man in the White Suit
The Man in the White Suit

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dir...

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their ...

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Curse of the Crimson Altar
Curse of the Crimson Altar

When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the...

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They Came from Beyond Space
They Came from Beyond Space

A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rur...

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The Dresser
The Dresser

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brillian...

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The Go-Between
The Go-Between

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the be...

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Berserk!
Berserk!

A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders....

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The Skull
The Skull

The Skull [from a short story by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho] is a fearsome, finely acted and moo...

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Konga
Konga

Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of gro...

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The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth

Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his n...

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Trog
Trog

Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-cavem...

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The Legend of Hell House
The Legend of Hell House

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the pre...

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Horrors of the Black Museum
Horrors of the Black Museum

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London....

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The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...

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The Sword and the Rose
The Sword and the Rose

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons,...

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The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera

A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnappe...

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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

A little boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he h...

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One Night... a Train
One Night... a Train

The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his...

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A Village Affair
A Village Affair

An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter...

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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Saraband for Dead Lovers

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover...

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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...

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What a Carve Up!
What a Carve Up!

Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ance...

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The Hour of the Pig
The Hour of the Pig

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. ...

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a t...

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Ill Met by Moonlight
Ill Met by Moonlight

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle...

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Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge...

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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots...

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A Walk with Love and Death
A Walk with Love and Death

During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love wit...

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Monet in London
Monet in London

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the developme...

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Model for Murder
Model for Murder

An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved i...

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Strapless
Strapless

An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger s...

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Blanche Fury
Blanche Fury

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury fami...

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Voice B Gone
Voice B Gone

a Dave Wasson Cartoon...

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The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers

After a mild heart attack at 63, Penelope Keeling is not ready to be an invalid yet...despite her ch...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods....

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Arthur the King
Arthur the King

Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out t...

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Blackmailed
Blackmailed

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication i...

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Galileo
Galileo

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and di...

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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, ...

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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman...

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Uncovered
Uncovered

While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murder...

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Twice Upon a Time
Twice Upon a Time

A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they...

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St. Ives
St. Ives

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scot...

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Night Was Our Friend
Night Was Our Friend

Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wif...

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Savage Messiah
Savage Messiah

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an ...

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The House in the Woods
The House in the Woods

A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died....

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Another Flip for Dominick
Another Flip for Dominick

Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. ...

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The Gift of Friendship
The Gift of Friendship

Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor....

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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jeal...

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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

While the Doctor plays the Trilogic Game, Steven and Dodo are forced to play seemingly childish but ...

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Cariani and the Courtesans
Cariani and the Courtesans

When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in t...

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Women in Love
Women in Love

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters...

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Game for Three Losers
Game for Three Losers

A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother....

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Top Secret!
Top Secret!

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festiv...

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Candidate for Murder
Candidate for Murder

Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Hel...

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Lace 2
Lace 2

While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of ...

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The Last Reunion
The Last Reunion

While holding their annual reunion, the former members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew begin to sen...

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Oxford Blues
Oxford Blues

A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England,...

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Sleepers
Sleepers

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under dee...

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Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident ...

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Ha'penny Breeze
Ha'penny Breeze

A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, frie...

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The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,...

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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Ran...

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Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh
Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh

Three stories from "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh": "The Masked Offender", "Rabbit Marks the...

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The Man from Nowhere
The Man from Nowhere

The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James H...

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Let Him Have It
Let Him Have It

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...

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Question of Love
Question of Love

Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his youn...

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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

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Tamahine
Tamahine

The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and ve...

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The Garden
The Garden

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, p...

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Memed My Hawk
Memed My Hawk

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in ma...

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Vincent the Dutchman
Vincent the Dutchman

A long, brave reach for a portrait, not of an intimate, private love, but of an inspiration, an icon...

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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which port...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. ...

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Maschenka
Maschenka

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'....

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The Haunting of Helen Walker
The Haunting of Helen Walker

TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and charact...

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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...

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Cymbeline
Cymbeline

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man...

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The Wanderer
The Wanderer

Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, telling of a warrior's loss of a beloved Lord and h...

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The Biko Inquest
The Biko Inquest

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notor...

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Nostradamus
Nostradamus

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to ...

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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow....

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Children of the North
Children of the North

The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation....

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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

The travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, im...

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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cr...

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The Drinking Party
The Drinking Party

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. E...

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Richard III
Richard III

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, ...

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What Rats Won't Do
What Rats Won't Do

Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent t...

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No Resting Place
No Resting Place

The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Re...

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Hard Travelling
Hard Travelling

Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes ...

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The Mountain and the Molehill
The Mountain and the Molehill

It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of Franc...

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Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

A 6 part documentary of making of Batman franchise....

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Sea-Change
Sea-Change

An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2....

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The Ties That Bind Us
The Ties That Bind Us

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s...

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift....

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Biography: Val Kilmer
Biography: Val Kilmer

A&E's Biography of Val Kilmer....

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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

The V&A presents Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, an exclusive private view of the ‘hugely enjoyable ...

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Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution

Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months...

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The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner

Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous smal...

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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...

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