Samuel West

Samuel West

Birthday: 1966-06-19

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Biography: Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England as Samuel Alexander Joseph West. He is known for his work on Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).

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Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies
Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies

Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' ...

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Ring of the Nibelungs
Ring of the Nibelungs

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried a...

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War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched ...

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First Man on the Moon
First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story ...

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Van Helsing
Van Helsing

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Val...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, ...

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Howards End
Howards End

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...

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BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though...

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Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel
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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Random Quest
Random Quest

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life si...

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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revoluti...

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Time & Tide - A Trilogy
Time & Tide - A Trilogy

Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the l...

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Voices in the Garden
Voices in the Garden

Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war...

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I Hate Christmas Too
I Hate Christmas Too

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 191...

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Dark Relic
Dark Relic

1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But ...

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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer

1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in th...

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Persuasion
Persuasion

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with ...

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Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich
Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich

Documentary on the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908....

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Carrington
Carrington

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

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The Book of Water
The Book of Water

The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by S...

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Reunion
Reunion

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the ri...

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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949...

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Runt
Runt

Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts th...

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Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory pro...

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Archipel
Archipel

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay...

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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of ...

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The Ripper
The Ripper

It is 1888, and London is in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in his...

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Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her wa...

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Suffragette
Suffragette

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...

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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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Merchant Ivory
Merchant Ivory

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership,...

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The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall)
The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall)

Tubular Bells, one of the iconic musical works of the 20th century, and the highest selling instrume...

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The Maitlands
The Maitlands

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times....

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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behin...

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The Eichmann Show
The Eichmann Show

The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blackliste...

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Frankie and Johnnie
Frankie and Johnnie

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love...

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The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India
The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India

Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princ...

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Nero's Golden House
Nero's Golden House

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The Dance of Shiva
The Dance of Shiva

In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his fait...

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Complicity
Complicity

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the unde...

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Hitler's Children
Hitler's Children

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descen...

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Hyde Park on Hudson
Hyde Park on Hudson

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around t...

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The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word ge...

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Open Fire
Open Fire

Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arre...

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Pandaemonium
Pandaemonium

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wo...

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Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson

The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and paint...

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In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence
In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence

Documentary from the UK's Channel 4 investigating the death of INXS lead vocalist Michael Hutchence,...

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After the War: Conquering Germany
After the War: Conquering Germany

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of ...

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The Blood of the Rose
The Blood of the Rose

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006....

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On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom ...

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The First Emperor
The First Emperor

Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unifie...

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Inside the Court of Henry VIII
Inside the Court of Henry VIII

Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince...

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If I Don't Come Home:  Letters from D-Day
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme tol...

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Notting Hill
Notting Hill

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with f...

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Longitude
Longitude

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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Heavy Weather
Heavy Weather

At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilful...

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Iris
Iris

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from t...

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Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
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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A Feast at Midnight
A Feast at Midnight

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight...

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Einstein's Big Idea
Einstein's Big Idea

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theo...

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Faberge: A Life of Its Own
Faberge: A Life of Its Own

This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Faberge name, from Imperial Russia until the present-da...

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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and l...

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Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

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Danielle Steel's Zoya
Danielle Steel's Zoya

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for her...

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Secrets of the Manor House
Secrets of the Manor House

Find out what went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago....

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Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court
Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King H...

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Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotia...

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A Breed of Heroes
A Breed of Heroes

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by ...

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Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy
Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy

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All the world's a stage
All the world's a stage

An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem 'All The World's a Stage' narrated by the reno...

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The Riot Club
The Riot Club

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations ...

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Secrets of the Tower of London
Secrets of the Tower of London

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and to...

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Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reu...

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Gatecrash
Gatecrash

A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation,...

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Secrets of Underground London
Secrets of Underground London

Experts examine the ruins and relics hidden under London. Among them, a Roman amphitheater, ditches ...

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Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her s...

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Return to Narnia
Return to Narnia

Return to Narnia is a nostalgic documentary that reunites the cast and crew of the BBC’s classic The...

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