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Inglourious Basterds(2009)

R
| 2h 33min | Drama, Thriller, War
4.1/5 (with 9,987 votes)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, ...
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Darkest Hour(2017)

2h 5min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 2,286 votes)

A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.

Directed by Joe Wright - With Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn, ...
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The Eagle Has Landed(1976)

PG
| 2h 15min | Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller, War
3.3/5 (with 129 votes)

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

Directed by John Sturges - With Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, ...
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The Iron Lady(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | History, Drama
3.2/5 (with 772 votes)

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd - With Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Iain Glen, Olivia Colman, ...

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live(2014)

PG-13
| 2h 43min | Music, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 30 votes)

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Ruthie Henshall, Ann Emery
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An Ideal Husband(1999)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 81 votes)

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Directed by Oliver Parker - With Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Peter Vaughan, ...
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Young Winston(1972)

PG
| 2h 29min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, ...
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Jubilee(1978)

NR
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
3.0/5 (with 28 votes)

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Directed by Derek Jarman - With Nell Campbell, Ian Charleson, Adam Ant, Jayne County, Richard O'Brien, David Brandon, ...

Churchill's Secret(2016)

1h 41min | History, TV Movie, Drama
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Directed by Charles Sturridge
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Teheran '43(1981)

3h 12min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

Directed by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov - With Natalya Belokhvostikova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Claude Jade, Alain Delon, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevsky, ...

The Journey(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.

Directed by Nick Hamm - With Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens, Ian Beattie, ...

Shadow World(2016)

1h 34min | Documentary, History
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.

Directed by Johan Grimonprez
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century(2014)

1h 32min | Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

British Sounds(1970)

54min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
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The Deal(2003)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.

Directed by Stephen Frears - With David Morrissey, Michael Sheen

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley(2008)

1h 24min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

Directed by Niall MacCormick - With Andrea Riseborough

Margaret(2009)

1h 53min | TV Movie, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

Directed by James Kent - With Lindsay Duncan
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National Theatre Live: This House(2013)

2h 39min
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians. But this fragile alliance lasts only until October, when another election is called. This time, Labour win with a tiny majority of just three. Now things get tougher as old cross-Party agreements break down and even sick and dying MPs are wheeled into the chamber to cast their votes! James Graham's acclaimed new play whisks us back to the days of the UK's previous hung Parliament, when politics got really dirty in the battle for power.

The Ploughman's Lunch(1983)

1h 47min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.

Directed by Richard Eyre - With Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Charlie Dore, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay
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The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes(2016)

2h 27min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

What started as a drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has become a real life investigation of contradicting versions of the crime.

Directed by Andrei Nekrasov

Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy(2012)

1h 12min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back(2016)

35min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A fly-on-the-wall mockumentary following the day-to-day reality of being Nigel Farage. How does a man forever in the spotlight fill his days now he has nothing to do?

Dans la tête de Boris Johnson(2022)

Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Portrait of a political animal who made provocation a weapon, before seeing it turned against him. From Brexit to pandemic, an X-ray of power according to "BoJo.".

Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms(2023)

50min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the dark days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London. The programme combines superb archive film from the Imperial War Museum’s vast collection, with atmospheric dramatisations actually filmed inside the Cabinet War Rooms – the real locations from where Churchill led the nation. Includes first-hand accounts which reveal the challenges of working with Britain’s bullish war leader at close quarters.