Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an English actor who made his name on The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie as well as other media that features his incarnation of the character.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4467 |
| Birthday | 1959-11-14 |
| Place of Birth | Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Paul John McGann, |
2019
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2/1
Theis documentary contains the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway), Yee Jee Tso (Chang Lee...
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The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2017
Nero's Sunken City
5/5
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first cen...
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Nero's Sunken City
1996
The One That Got Away
6.438/8
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition togeth...
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The One That Got Away
2005
Gypo
5.344/16
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The f...
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Gypo
1992
Alien³
6.391/6580
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...
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Alien³
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
10/1
With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan's dramatic decline....
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Swans: Mystery of the Missing
1987
Withnail & I
7.2/640
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid...
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Withnail & I
1989
The Rainbow
5.671/38
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition....
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The Rainbow
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
7.4/47
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, th...
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Hornblower: Mutiny
1996
Doctor Who
6.198/253
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
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Doctor Who
2012
Tiger Island
0/0
Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionaire is catching the killers and releasing them on hi...
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Tiger Island
2015
Super Powered Owls
0/0
With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved birds. And yet it's rare to catch more than a glim...
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Super Powered Owls
2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
8.5/1
The history of still life painting with oil paints
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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2005
The Orangutan King
10/1
For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one to...
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The Orangutan King
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
7.25/42
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
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Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
Hornblower: Duty
7.3/38
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napo...
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Hornblower: Duty
2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
6.281/16
Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and...
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Mia and the Dragon Princess
2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
5.183/436
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the mo...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
2001
My Kingdom
5.5/8
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and powe...
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My Kingdom
2010
Godard & Others
5.2/2
An uncompromising anarchic comedy about the state of independent film making in Britain's ever increasing surveillance society. With specific referenc...
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Godard & Others
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
5.971/34
Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving mil...
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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
0/0
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks 'Who is t...
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
1996
Catherine the Great
5.6/34
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become...
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Catherine the Great
1989
Dealers
5.6/7
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leadin...
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Dealers
1990
Paper Mask
5.6/24
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nu...
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Paper Mask
2001
Hornblower: Retribution
7.3/43
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving t...
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Hornblower: Retribution
1997
Downtime
7/2
Ex-police psychologist Rob has plenty of problems of his own. Having retired through ill health, he is quite aware that he is not the best person to t...
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Downtime
2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
0/0
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his lo...
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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2022
Swallow Your Dreams
10/1
James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expense of his marriage - he attempts to re-create in...
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Swallow Your Dreams
2003
Otherworld
5.667/9
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabin...
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Otherworld
1999
Withnail and Us
6.4/5
A short documentary about the making of "Withnail & I" (1987).
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Withnail and Us
1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
7/1
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be...
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Drowning in the Shallow End
2023
The Day of the Sun Dog
0/0
A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’ leads to a sign from the afterlife she’s been so...
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The Day of the Sun Dog
2006
If I Had You
7/2
A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in which her married ex-lover is the chief s...
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If I Had You
2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
6.5/2
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been front page news ever since. Ian Brady fantasized about...
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Brady and Hindley: Possession
2001
Hotel!
5.2/5
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to...
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Hotel!
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
5.4/7
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1996
Star Trek Story
1.167/3
Gene Roddenberry's Utopian vision of humanity in the 24th century had a profound effect on American viewers. During the height of the Cold War, the te...
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Star Trek Story
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
7.806/62
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. B...
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
1996
The Merchant of Venice
5.5/2
A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
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The Merchant of Venice
2023
The Undertaker
5.667/3
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.
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The Undertaker
2023
Talking Doctor Who
5/3
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doct...
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Talking Doctor Who
2022
Doctor Who Am I
4.8/5
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry f...
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Doctor Who Am I
2008
My Dad Was a Communist
0/0
Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.
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My Dad Was a Communist
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
7/1
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger a...
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Cariani and the Courtesans
2005
Death of an Idealist
0/0
Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.
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Death of an Idealist
1987
Empire of the Sun
7.51/2198
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...
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Empire of the Sun
1991
Afraid of the Dark
5.7/37
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
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Afraid of the Dark
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8.181/788
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa...
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
10/1
In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne Ashbrook was cast as the eighth Doctor’s assistant...
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Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
7.357/7
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. The...
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Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
1983
Gaskin
5/1
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care. Graham Gaskin says it is not just his story -...
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Gaskin
2002
Queen of the Damned
6.116/1212
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest...
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Queen of the Damned
1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
0/0
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1993
The Three Musketeers
6.392/1101
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbande...
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The Three Musketeers
1998
The Dance of Shiva
9/1
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers riski...
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The Dance of Shiva
1995
The Hanging Gale
0/0
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while fa...
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The Hanging Gale
2017
Brakes
5.667/15
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, sta...
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Brakes
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
8/69
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear...
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
5.9/7
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China, st...
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The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
6.7/3
At a late-night meeting with nine colleagues, James, an executive of some sort, wants action to avoid their potential loss of millions of pounds daily...
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
2015
Absence
7/4
Absence offers a snapshot of a man mourning someone very close to him, and over the course of the film we get some clues as to the sinister cause of h...
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Absence
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
6/1
Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery Channel documentary on the 11th anniversary of th...
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The 9/11 Surfer
2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
4/1
A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.
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Fables of Forgotten Things
2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
0/0
The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famous band. The documentary looks at the emergence of...
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Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2017
B&B
6.3/63
Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote Christian B&B. Events take a deadly turn when anot...
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B&B
1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
7.5/2
In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vancouver, Canada. Sylvester McCoy flew out to join th...
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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
6.377/126
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the...
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FairyTale: A True Story
1990
The Monk
3.2/4
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. B...
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The Monk
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
8/2
Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors David Tennant, Paul McGann, Peter Davison and Sylv...
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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2015
The Other Prince William
0/0
For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding th...
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The Other Prince William
2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
9/2
There are many myths surrounding the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Previous excavations have not led to an answer to the question of exactly where they...
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2018
Picasso's Last Stand
0/0
Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist...
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Picasso's Last Stand
2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
7.3/3
Documentary investigating the events during and after the assassination of John F Kennedy.
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JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
8.7/3
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China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
6/1
Four compulsive hoarders are driven to accumulate objects but can't bear to throw them out -- to the point where their "stuff" takes over their lives.
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World of Compulsive Hoarders
2013
Art Is...
0/0
A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition.
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Art Is...
2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
0/0
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Ro...
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Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
8/2
Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just le...
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Churchill: When Britain Said No
2007
Davros Connections
0/0
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls together the whole of the Davros Boxset into a single...
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Davros Connections
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
6.4/5
The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?
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SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2005
Ghosts on the Underground
7/2
More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising document...
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Ghosts on the Underground
2002
The Biographer
9/1
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
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The Biographer
2003
Doctor Who: Shada
7.3/3
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remo...
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Doctor Who: Shada
2010
The Day John Lennon Died
8/2
Reconstructing John’s last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John knew and those he encountered before his assassin...
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The Day John Lennon Died
1989
Streets of Yesterday
7.5/2
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Is...
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Streets of Yesterday
1982
Whistling Wally
0/0
17 year old Kevin discovers that his sick father, Whistling Wally, is dying.
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Whistling Wally
2003
Listening
7.5/4
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in l...
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Listening
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
7.6/4
Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On" - a unique documentary feat...
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The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
1989
Tree of Hands
8/1
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
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Tree of Hands
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
7.8/23
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew...
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
8/2
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. This super-sized tom...
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Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Perplexed Music
0/0
The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Paul McGann as he battles for reason and stability wi...
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Perplexed Music
2011
Digging The Great Escape
0/0
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who...
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Digging The Great Escape
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
7.2/4
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...
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Doctor Who at the Proms
2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
7.375/236
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familia...
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
7.979/168
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon...
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
8/1
In the summer of 1940, Churchill had taken power and the decision to arrest UK citizens originating from Germany, Austria and Italy; many were perfect...
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Churchill’s Forgotten War
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
0/0
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
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The Ties That Bind Us
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
5.136/11
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still...
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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
10/1
Just weeks after VE day, Winston Churchill found himself in new battle: to be reelected Prime Minister. Confident of his victory after leading through...
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Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
0/0
The Minister of Chance: Prologue is a spin-off from Death Comes to Time (2002), a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science-fictio...
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The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
0/0
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Shark: Beneath the Surface
2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
0/0
The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954....
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Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2025
The Marbles
0/0
The Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of freedom, and outlines the case for the Parthenon Mar...
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The Marbles
2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
0/0
Detailed evidence of how the IRA got arms from Libya in order to defeat the British in Ireland.
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Gadaffi and the IRA
2001
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
6/1
Documentary on the life and career of legendary snooker player, Alex Higgins.
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Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2020
The Big Night In
9/2
Comic Relief and Children in Need join forces to deliver a very special night of television, hosted by Lenny Henry and Matt Baker.
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The Big Night In
2014
France: The Wild Side
0/0
Journeying from the Pyrenees to the Alps, all around the mainland to Corsica, this is the story of the 'wild side' of France.
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France: The Wild Side
2026
Good Behaviour
0/0
A surreal psychological drama about a tormented prisoner who undergoes an talking therapy to reframe the memories of his crime. Starring Antonio Aakee...
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Good Behaviour
2007
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
6.2/4
What would happen if the world were suddenly without people - if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react - and how swiftly?...
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Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2026
Triesverse: Cataclysm
0/0
Part one of a two-part finale. Daniel Chapman is back, and this time he's brought company. With his rebooted mission to bring the Last Reality to frui...
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Triesverse: Cataclysm
2015
Ripley by Job Willins
0/0
a fan-edited, two-hour feature film that blends and re-imagines Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection into a single black-and-white narrative
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