All ten episodes from the first series of the historical drama starring George Blagden as French monarch Louis XIV. In a bid to strengthen his weakening position among the country's elite, Louis decides to move the French court from Paris to Versailles. However, with the Parisian nobility deeply opposed to the move, Louis is faced with negotiating a dangerous cycle of lies, deceit and vicious political manoeuvrings as he attempts to exert his authority.
Discover the incredible true story of Henry of Navarre the celebrated warrior king who became one of history's great defenders of justice and religious freedom. It is the mid 16th Century and France is awash with blood as the protestant Huguenots fight for survival against dark forces led by the treacherous Catherine De Medici. When she orchestrates the ultimate betrayal at the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre King Henry will fight his life's greatest battle to ensure her treachery does not go unanswered...
R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
The head chef at swish Hamburg restaraunt The Lido Martha Klein's perfectionism and obsession with good cooking leaves little free time for romantic entanglements. However when her sister tragically dies in a car accident Martha's boss Frida insists she take time out to care for her eight year old niece Lina whilst attempts are made to locate Lina's estranged father. Returning to work after struggling to bond with this stubborn headstrong child Martha finds that dashing Itali
Discover the incredible true story of Henry of Navarre the celebrated warrior king who became one of history's great defenders of justice and religious freedom. It is the mid 16th Century and France is awash with blood as the protestant Huguenots fight for survival against dark forces led by the treacherous Catherine De Medici. When she orchestrates the ultimate betrayal at the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre King Henry will fight his life's greatest battle to ensure her treachery does not go unanswered...
A gay teacher who dates a female colleague for appearances' sake falls in love with a man he meets in a gay bar... 'One of the best gay films I have ever seen. I only wish that there were more films like this..' Stephen Bourne London Gay Times.
This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed The Sheriff of Wall Street when he was NY's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America's largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as Governor with the largest margin in the state's history many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation's first Jewish President. Then shockingly Spitzers meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer - the paragon of rectitude - had been caught seeing prostitutes. As his powerful enemies gloated his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the Sheriff fell so did the financial markets in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy. With unique access to the escort world as well as friends colleagues and enemies of the ex-Governor (many of whom have come forward for the first time) the film explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris sex and power.
Two Men. Two Worlds. One Cause. When newly-commissioned SS Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews he has no choice but to act. The only sympathetic ear Gerstein is able to find is that of a young Father Riccardo (Mathieu Kassovitz) a priest with deep ties to the Vatican. While Riccardo takes on the obstructive Vatican hierarchy Gerstein must walk a tightrope between do
Being in a pop group definitely has its big-time highs and lows. Follow the guys of Big Time Rush on their sometimes bumpy (yet entertaining!) road to success as they prep for their album release, in this complete first season combining both volumes (Halfway There and Road To Success) they meet and greet bloggers and celebrities, and plan the biggest dance party The Palm Woods has ever witnessed. They even catch a little Hollywood fever along the way!
The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently both in preparation and rehearsal and in their 1969 performance of the work which has become one of the most remembered ever given.The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer not to the details of Schubert's life but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried to brighten the world. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote in the twenty months that remained to him after that date together with quotations from his letters and diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.
Recorded live in Royal Festival Hall London 1991.
Ted Bundy was a chilling combination of boy-next-door good looks and deranged perversions. Bundy took his fantasies to extremes when he abandons his girlfriends to lure, threaten, and murder more than a hundred unsuspecting women.
Poulenc's late pious works for voice share the sprightliness of his early secular orchestral and chamber pieces; this is perhaps especially true of his 1952 work of devotion and martyrdom. Young aristocrat Blanche seeks refuge in the cloister from her fear of death only to find the Carmelites she joins the object of persecution by the Jacobin Revolution; she flees, but then comes back to share her sisters' death--a powerful scene in which a hymn is stripped down a voice at a time, and finally silenced when Blanche joins them on the guillotine. Anne Sophie Schmidt as Blanche is convincing both in her terror and her resignation; Patricia Petibon is delightful as her closest friend, the lively young nun Constance to whom fear is never especially an issue and who has sought death cheerfully from the start, praying that the dying Prioress might be saved and she taken in her place. The older women--the two Prioresses and Mere Marie who persuades the nuns to refuse compromise--are equally fine in their graver music. --Roz Kaveney
The boys are back from tour and ready to take on whatever comes their way. From crazy fans to cute crushes, TV appearances to reality shows, and pranks to publicity plans, Big Time Rush continue to stay true to themselves while working hard to make their music heard!
Dave is a petty criminal who thrives on drugs and violence in London's East End. When his actions kill his best friend Tariq, he discovers Islam and begins to find peace until his old life of crime comes back to test his new belief.
Cloud 9 explores fidelity, desire and love in the twilight years and subverts convention to present a brave account of young love in old age.
Consists of the following operas:La Voix HumaineUne Education Manquee
A look at life for the members of a boy band who are trying to make it big in the music industry.
Based on another of the notorious novels by the Marquis De Sade, the story is of Eugenie Radeck, who lives with her widowed stepfather, a renowned writer in Berlin. One day she accidentally discovers her fathers true sadistic, perverse character. Instead of being shocked, she becomes his accomplice and they plan to commit the perfect crime together. They decide to kill an unknown photo model just for the thrill of it. Their perverse, deadly relationship thrives until Eugenie meets a young mus...
CNBC: The Leaders - The Secrets To Their Success (2 Discs)
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