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Under the penname George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans published a historical fiction book with autobiographical aspects. It traces protagonist Maggie Tulliver's tumultuous relationships with her brother and several suitors, culminating in her ostracism from society, and resolving with reunion with her brother. This film features Fiona Shaw exploring the parallels between Evans' life and the story, retracing her revisions in her manuscripts and analyzing...
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Inside the Chateau of Versailles, we take a Musketeer training course to discover the real man behind the fictional D'Artagnan. We find out why Champagne bubbles (and if it's good for you), then discover that Marie Antoinette was not the frivolous dim-wit that some would have us believe. We examine a strange weapon created by an inventive assassin, then investigate the suspicious death of a king's mistress. And finally, we visit an historic French...
4) Churchill
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English
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June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
8) The assassin
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中文(繁體)
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This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be and she will have to choose between sacrificing...