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- Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.
- Lydia Wilson explores the origins of early writing systems with historians and calligraphers, examining how writing materials influenced cultures over time and how ideology and technology reshaped writing in the 20th century.
- Identical twins Andy and Pete have always been close, but their lives are forever altered when aspiring preacher Pete is framed for murder.
- Archaeologists search for information about how Stonehenge was built and what that can tell us about the people who built it.
- Down on his luck mechanic Nicholas Louzer comes face to face with his worst nightmare - Christmas.
- Malik Jones' faith, ability to do the right thing and love, are all challenged, after he's released from a ten year prison bid.
- n the final installment of this family-friendly adventure trilogy, Ben is basking in the success of his efforts to make his father, Chico happy -- until an unexpected visit from the millionaire married to Chico's ex-wife threatens to rock the boat. The plot thickens when Chico realizes that the rich man's plans to build a shopping mall by the sea could ultimately harm his livelihood as a tour guide.
- A gangsta' rapper fresh out of county jail returns to the crime ridden streets of Oakland and gets back into the drug game to get his money and number one escort back from the rival Bay Area gangsta' pimps that want him dead.
- In 2004 armed men coerced two bank employees into stealing £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast. Now, almost two decades later, two journalists revisit the unsolved case and look at the police investigation, legal prosecution, and how suspected ties to the IRA influenced the Northern Ireland peace process.
- In an acclaimed career spanning over half a century of timeless entertainment, husband and wife Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme represented the very best in popular music, starting with youthful pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s (Go Away Little Girl, Blame It On The Bossa Nova) followed by their Grammy® and Emmy®-winning triumphs focusing on the Great American Songbook. Their musician son David Lawrence (High School Musical) hosts STEVE LAWRENCE and EYDIE GORME: MEMORIES OF MY MOM AND DAD, featuring music-variety television performances from the 1960s and 1970s along with remembrances and tributes from longtime family friend Carol Burnett and singer Michael Feinstein.
- Gudridur the Far-Travelled was a Viking woman from Iceland, who at the end of the 10th century crossed the Atlantic several times to live in Iceland, Greenland and Canada, visited Norway and Rome and was an early Icelandic Christian. The documentary traces her life based on the Vinland Sagas.
- ShortA film about love, relationships and mental health 'I Thought I Knew You' follows Martha and Esther as they navigate their long term relationship through a storm. Having grown up in a relationship, Esther is left dependent and Martha responsible, causing resentment and pressure. Esther is falling apart, drinking herself into oblivion and not considering what long term effects her needs and anxiety is having on her partner. Unknown to Esther, Martha begins to explore other options when she secretly falls for a man. Nat is striking, together and financially secure - he turns Martha's methodical thinking on its head, leaving her in a spin about making the right decision. As we learn more about Esther's fragile past (suicide attempts and severe anxiety) we see the devastation that may be caused by Martha's reckless infidelity. The power shifts back and forth as Esther takes on the challenge of accepting Martha's current flaws (her lies and deceit) and Martha falls apart at the thought of walking away from familiar surroundings to new ground. This short film takes us on a journey exploring friendship, power and vulnerability as we watch a couple, who know nothing else, begin to realise what life might be like without each other. A short film developed and directed by Dan Lowenstein (House of Create Ltd), written by Sophie Smith-Tong and produced by Jason Matthewson with cinematography by Tom Walder and Matthew Perren of 84 Films.
- Classic German good night stories on TV. Originally invented in the east, it was soon also produced in the West and is still shown today at 6:50pm. The Sandman is a small man with a white beard that comes at night and spreads sand onto the eyes of the sleeping children. This is the beginning sequence while there is singing and the typical music. This is followed by a cartoon which is different from episode to episode, often featuring children or animals. After 10 minutes it ends with an end sequence similar to the one at the beginning, but this time they sing: "Kinder, liebe Kinder, es hat mir Spaß gemacht, nun schnell ins Bett und schlaft recht schön, dann will auch ich zur Ruhe gehn. Ich wünsch euch Gute Nacht."
- Last night was a surprise. This morning when they woke together? It was tricky. Dave is much older than Ester. Lucy is Dave's daughter. Ester and Lucy are friends. Both went out with Rick. For Dave, there's a lot to sort out, not least his own awakening.
- Joey, a resident of a Manila slum, is a GI baby who doesn't know his American father. His mother, an ex-prostitute in Olongapo City (the American Military Base), forces her 17-year-old son to capitalize on his good looks and bluntly tells him to marry a rich girl so mother and son will have a comfortable life--an idea he detests that becomes the object of conflict between them. Joey is in love with Lory, the kind, beautiful girl next door, but hasn't the courage to tell her. He does odd jobs until he graduates from high school He aches to get ahead and get himself, his mother, and Lory out of the slums and poverty, but the university is an expensive proposition. Desperate, he finally succumbs to what his mother has been goading him to do: use his good looks to whoever is willing to pay. It turns out that women are not the only willing patrons: rich dirty old men are also more than ready to pay him for a few moments of sexual satisfaction. However, working as a male prostitute is not a piece of cake. Many weirdos abound in this business: sociopaths, psychopaths, masochists, and outright sadists. It dawns on him that his situation now is much more disillusioning than the slum that he abhors. He turns his back on from the job that took away his dignity, his soul. The slum is far from ideal, but with his youth, strength, and determination, there is hope somewhere for him, his mother, and the girl he loves.
- Global Beauty Masters is the most extreme hair, makeup and nail art competition of all time. Top International stylists from the U.S. and around the globe converge in Las Vegas to win the title of Global Beauty Masters. In a separate competition, beauty school teams battle to named Student Global Beauty Masters. Witness the passion and creativity of these magical stylists airing on TLC beginning March 17, 2016.
- A twentysomething couple in Boston are torn apart by lies, addiction, and their pasts while facing a future possibly apart, but forever connected by a child on the way.
- Chico takes his unconditional love for his son Ben to the next level in the second installment of Avi Cohen's adventure trilogy, which picks up on a positive note -- soon after Chico won a hard-fought custody battle for Ben. But everything crumbles when the government tries to take Ben away from him and his new girlfriend can't stay faithful. Good thing Ben has a plan.
- Proud and determined, the hunter set out, leaving behind his village ravaged by a terrible drought. All the villagers came out to wish him well, and everyone gave what he could: an egg, a handful of peanuts or a few kola nuts... As in the folktale, Sobgui, a former computer programmer who now drives a "clando" cab in Douala, flees to Europe to escape a life in Cameroon which has become unbearable. In Cologne (Germany), Sobgui joins a community of African emigrants. Most are hard-working and ambitious people. Sobgui begins a love affair with Madeleine, a German political activist who encourages Sobgui and his friends to return home and fight for change.
- Today's Hip Hop has been flooded by Pharmaceutical drugs taking over the industry coming from the streets and drug dealers pushing the drugs throughout the inner cities, rappers are hooked on these drugs creating a following of kids taking after them and finding overdoses and high amounts of deaths happening. Rappers are getting hooked on these drugs and rapping about them such as Percoset and Oxycodone and mixing it with alcohol. The labels and drug companies are pushing the product through the lyrics and creating a type of sound and music that is drug based with slower temp lyrics and a drug and induced state with the use of lean drinks and other Opioids and narcotics present throughout Hip Hop that the labels and drug companies are cashing in on.
- During the month of December, 1997, I witnessed several troubling events in Cameroon: In my village a young boy was nearly lynched by a mob people's justice in a lawless state. I went to a wedding and learned that, by law, the husband is the ruler of the family. A highly respected journalist was imprisoned without a trial for writing an article about the health of the president.
- A reflection on migration and identity through the lives of a European ethnic minority. Thirty years after their parents emigrated from Transylvania the young Transylvanian Saxons hold on to their heritage in a globalised Europe.
- The Roadside Motel is Dorothy's whole world. It is both her haven and her prison, a whiskey-yellow fantasy where nothing changes and everything is familiar. Her job as a cleaner allows her unlimited assess to the lives of the guests. She steals pieces of the outside world from them, creating a window of escape out of the broken, used and discarded objects that get left behind. A flash of red, a pair of wonderful stilettos, has the power to change everything. Marie has come to the Roadside motel. Dorothy is a story about two women struggling to between different stages of their lives. It is a quiet film, visually sensual, that explores the hard edge of fantasy and womanhood and the inevitability of change.
- Chronicle of a rather particular afternoon during which the lives of three people change dramatically: Alex, the husband, goes to his in-laws' to bring home his second wife. Elise, Alex's childhood sweetheart and first wife, accompanies him - as she must, according to tradition. And Josephine, the young bride, leaves her parents to begin a new life.