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The Woman Who Did
EnglandA suffragette protests against marriage by openly living with her lover.
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The Mystery of a London Flat
England'A burglar recounts the events that led to a woman being shot.' (British Film Institute)
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Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
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The Squaw Man
EnglandBlamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
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Ireland, a Nation
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
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For Ireland's Sake
🇮🇪 Ireland The 18th CenturySet in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
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Called Back
EnglandYoung Anthony March, living in London, inherits a considerable amount of money, but his crooked uncle Dr. Manuel Ceneri steals it. When Anthony gets suspicious, Ceneri's partner in crime, Macari, persuades Ceneri to kill him. However, just as they commit the murder a blind man, Gilbert Vaughan, mistakenly enters the house. Anthony's sister Pauline sees the murder, faints and loses her memory. Thinking they have gotten away with the murder, Ceneri and Macari soon find out that they're in for a shock.
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Come Back to Erin
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The Pickwick Papers
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East Lynne
England The 19th CenturyAn aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.
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Sixty Years a Queen
England The 19th Century'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
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His Mother
🇮🇪 IrelandAn Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.
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You Remember Ellen
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1910sSummer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
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Nicholas Nickleby
EnglandWith The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
England The 1850sSilent film drama of the famous incident..
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Robin Hood
England The Middle AgesRobin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Oliver Twist
England The 19th CenturyAn orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
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Rory O'More
🇮🇪 Ireland The 17th CenturyBased on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle.
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The Colleen Bawn
🇮🇪 IrelandA young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
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Henry VIII
England The 16th CenturyDirected by William Barker.
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David Copperfield
EnglandThanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
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The Aerial Anarchists
EnglandAnarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.
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The Airship Destroyer
EnglandAn inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
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The Cowboy Millionaire
EnglandBud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar.
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The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
England The 17th CenturyDuring the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. Cromwell is charmed by the girl and gives her his signet ring. By chance the child is the daughter of one of the soldiers and gives the death disc to her father, because she thinks it's pretty. The child is returned home to her mother, who learns of her husband's pending execution and of the power of the ring. She rushes to the place of execution and saves her husband by producing the ring.
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A Visit to the Seaside
EnglandThe first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities. It is ranked of high historical importance. Kinemacolor later influenced and replaced by Technicolor, which was used from 1916 to 1952.
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Tartans of Scottish Clans
ScotlandIt's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film concentrates on the tartan cloths of various clans rather than the men who wore them, and is an early filmic reminder of their huge importance to both Scottish national identity and the thriving tourist industry north of the border. The film's unique selling point was that pioneering filmmaker G. A. Smith showed off the vibrant designs in Kinemacolor, among the earliest colour film processes that didn't involve meticulous hand-painting. And no dangly bits in sight.
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Parsifal
England The Middle AgesKlingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of Amfortas. Carrying Amfortas to his bath. Kundry brings relief to Amfortas. Parsifal reproached for killing the Swan. Kundry succumbs to Evil. Knights entering the Holy Grail. Parsifal unmoved. Klingsor summons Kundry. Parsifal enters the Magic Garden. Kundry kisses Parsifal. Parsifal calls upon the Saviour. Parsifal repulses Kundry. Klingsor hurls the Sacred Spear. Destruction of the Magic Garden. Guernemanz restores Kundry. Parsifal appears with Sacred Spear. Kundry washes Parsifal's feet. Amfortas tears open his wound. Parsifal heals Amfortas. Parsifal becomes King of the Holy Grail.
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Incident at Clovelly Cottage
EnglandIncident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Considered lost since only a few frames have survived.
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London's Trafalgar Square
EnglandMoving picture of London's Trafalgar Square traffic, filmed with a kinesigraph.
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Strings
EnglandA German exchange student begins an impulsive and ultimately destructive relationship with a shy British boy in her final weeks before returning to Munich and her warring family.
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Araby
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890sBased on the story "Araby" in the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.
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Peter Pan & Wendy
EnglandLive-action adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale of a boy who wouldn't grow up and recruits three young siblings in London to join him on a magical adventure to the enchanted Neverland island.
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Butterfly
EnglandButterfly is an upcoming Indian Kannada-language comedy-drama film directed by Ramesh Aravind and produced by Manu Kumaran, which is a remake of the 2014 Hindi film Queen by Vikas Bahl.
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Zam Zam
EnglandZam Zam is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film, which is a remake of the 2014 Hindi film Queen by Vikas Bahl.
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That is Mahalakshmi
EnglandMahalakshmi, a traditional girl sets out on a solo honeymoon after her marriage gets cancelled.
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Dream's Ashes
EnglandLocal drug dealer Lee finds his world turned upside down when his girlfriend leaves to live with the local hard man. Now receiving intimidation instead of giving it, Lee finds life as he knows it slipping away as he's haunted by the ghost of his dead child.
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Lights of London
EnglandAn heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire.
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Cottontail
EnglandA widower from Japan travels with his estranged son to England in order to fulfill his late wife's dying wish.
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Monster Butler
England The 1970sThe film is based on the true story of the serial-killing con man Roy Fontaine who worked as a butler and robbed and murdered numerous employers throughout England and Scotland.
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Living
England The 1950sAn English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s
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See How They Run
England The 1950sIn 1950s London, a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular West End play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and overzealous rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit within London’s glamorous Theatreland and sordid underground.
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A Kind of English
EnglandRuhul Amin's quiet, humane dramatic feature explores the conflicting influences in the life of Samir, a 9-year-old Bengali boy growing up in the East End of London. Samir's unemployed father is a man crushed by his inability to make a place for himself in England. His mother maintains the traditional role of the dutiful wife, having little contact with the world outside the family home. The most Westernized member of the extended family, the father's younger brother, Tariq, shares the attitudes and ambitions of most English boys his age, but remains bound to the Asian community by his awareness of the ever-present threat of racism. Directed with restraint and played with enormous sensitivity by the cast (especially young Jamil Ali as Samir), Amin's film examines the family's relationships with each other and the world outside through a series of understated, carefully observed incidents, from which the themes and drama of the situation gradually emerge.
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Voldemort: Origins of the Heir
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The Crown: Season 5
England The 1990sThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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