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  • 1:10:00

    Banished

    Season 1 , Episode 4
    Freeman has vanished deep into the dense bush where no Englishman has ever been known to survive.
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    Banished

    Season 1 , Episode 3
    As Elizabeth and Tommy's marriage is blessed, the camp receives some bad news from Governor Philip.
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    Banished

    Season 1 , Episode 2
    Tension between Freeman and Marston escalate as food runs short.
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    Banished

    Season 1 , Episode 1
    Prisoner Elizabeth Quinn is found in the men's quarters with her married lover.
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    Horizon The Day We Learned to Think

    Season 2003
    A small piece of stone, unearthed in an African cave, may rewrite human history. If the message it contains is true, then one of the great sagas of human evolution - how our ancestors stopped being mere animals and became modern thinking human beings has all been based on a mistake.The history books say that some 37,000 years ago, our ancestors arrived in Europe for the first time. Suddenly, cave paintings appeared - clear evidence of sophisticated thought. It seemed there had been "Human Revolution".That revolution was so profound that it allowed us to triumph over even our nearest relatives, the Neanderthals. They were wiped out within years of our arrival in Europe. It seemed the sudden dawning of thought has led to us dominating the planet like no other creature. But now a small piece of ochre in a South African cave has changed everything. It appears to be a work of abstract art, an example of advanced thought - and yet it is twice as old as the human revolution. Evidence has also emerged suggesting that the Neanderthals were developing complex thinking too. Together these facts are forcing a huge rethink about our origins and what makes us human.
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    Dickens in America (2005) Boston

    Episode 2
    This week Miriam Margolyes arrives in Boston Mass., which proved to be much to Dickens' liking, and she visits all the places he saw, including, most movingly, Boston's extraordinary Blind School - Helen Keller's alma mater.
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    Great Expectations

    Episode 1
    Part One: Young Pip (Oscar Kennedy) is out on the marshes when he happens upon escaped convict Abel Magwitch (Ray Winstone), who instructs him to steal a file so he can remove his shackles. Pip returns, bringing a slice of pie with him as well as the file, much to Magwitch’s amazement. Later, Magwitch is re-arrested while fighting with a mysterious fellow escapee (Paul Rhys).Pip lives with his sister (Claire Rushbrook) and the blacksmith Joe Gargery (Shaun Dooley), who learn from Joe’s uncle (Mark Addy) that the reclusive Miss Havisham (Gillian Anderson) has use for a young boy. Sure of a reward, Pip’s sister puts him forward and he goes on to become a playmate for Havisham’s adopted daughter Estella (Izzy Meikle-Small). During his time at Miss Havisham’s house, Pip becomes convinced that she will become his benefactor and so is disappointed when she merely signs a contract paying for Pip's blacksmith apprenticeship to Joe, even more so when Havisham tells him never to return to see her. While he and Joe are at the house, Pip’s sister is attacked by the evil Orlick (Jack Roth), leaving her bedridden as Pip begins his seven-year apprenticeship.Seven years later, Pip (now played by Douglas Booth), having once again seen Estella (now played by Vanessa Kirby), is visited by the lawyer Jaggers (David Suchet), who informs him that he has an anonymous benefactor who will pay for him to go to London and begin life as a gentleman, on the condition that he must be known only as Pip (not ‘Mr Pip’) and must not enquire about the source of the money. Assuming the benefactor to be Miss Havisham, he visits her and promises not to let her down.
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    Great Expectations

    Episode 2
    Part Two: In London Pip rooms with the unaffected Herbert Pocket,a relative of Miss Havisham,cut off by his family for wanting to marry the poorly situated Clara Barley and whom Pip helps get work. In other respects,as he fritters away the allowance paid him by Jaggers,his guardian,he becomes a snob,uneasy when Joe visits. He is still in love with Estella,as is the egocentric toff Bentley Drummle,but Estella tells Pip she is incapable of love as Miss Havisham taught her to be hard-hearted and Pip is a witness when Estella accuses her adoptive mother of this. Returning from Kent for Mrs Joe's funeral Pip is on the eve of his twenty-first birthday when he will receive his full inheritance when he has a visitor,Abel Magwitch,the convict he once tried to help. To Pip's horror Magwitch tells him that he is his benefactor and not,as Pip had supposed, Miss Havisham.
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    Great Expectations

    Episode 3
    Part Three: Not wanting to accept that Magwitch is his benefactor Pip goes to Satis House where,not only is it confirmed but he is horrified to learn that Estella is marrying Drummle,to destroy him,the continuation of her adopted mother's plan for her to break men's hearts,Pip having been the guinea pig. Back in London his snobbery must be put aside when Herbert tells him that,as a lifer returned illegally to England to see Pip,Magwitch will be hung if caught and plans are made to smuggle him on board a ship. Discovering that Estella's mother is Molly,Jaggers' housekeeper whom he saved from the gallows,he forces the lawyer to tell him that Magwitch is the girl's father. Pip thwarts an attempt to kill him by Orlick,who boasts that he attacked Pip's sister,but Orlick,after the reward for Magwitch's capture,is in league with Compeyson,another ex-convict and Magwitch's sworn enemy,as well as the man who jilted Miss Havisham. As Pip rows his benefactor to safety they are intercepted by soldiers led by Compeyson,whom Magwitch kills,himself dying after Pip has told him that his daughter is alive and loved. Returning to Kent to beg Joe's forgiveness he learns that Drummle has died and Estella returned to Satis House to live alone after Miss Havisham has died in a fire. He runs to see her and this time she does not reject him.
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    Top Of The lake - Paradise Sold

    Episode 1
    On the South Island of New Zealand, twelve-year-old Tui Mitcham is rescued from the freezing waters of a remote mountaintop lake, which she had walked into in an apparent attempt to take her own life. Her teacher notices that she is pregnant and with the small local police force ill-equipped to question her, social services enlist the help of child protection expert Detective Robin Griffin to talk to the girl and uncover the truth. Robin has only just returned to Queenstown from Sydney, Australia, to visit her dying mother but agrees to help. Slowly, she forges a connection with Tui and learns more about her and her family, but the young girl refuses to reveal the father of her unborn child. Meanwhile, Tui's father Matt is bemused to find a small ad hoc village is created out of container crates on a plot of land known locally as Paradise, land which he believes he owns but has seemingly been sold by local estate agent Bob Platt. Populated by women of a certain age, veterans of love and rejection, the project is financed by rich divorcee Bunny but they are led by GJ, a silver-haired Svengali who administers a bracing form of kindness. Furious and seeking revenge, Matt sends his sons to question Platt, who has betrayed him with the sale. As Robin continues to investigate Tui's case and learns more about the small town of Laketop, her world starts to unravel, uncovering difficult secrets from her past. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.
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    Top Of The lake - Searchers Search

    Episode 2
    Early afternoon, Bunny slaps a hundred dollar bill down on the bar of the pub in Laketop and offers it to the first man who agrees to have sex with her. Bunny wants sex but on her guru GJ's orders is limiting her exposure to men to seven minutes in a bid to reduce the risk of emotional entanglement. Robin briefs the officers assigned to the investigation into the disappearance of Tui Mitcham. Against a hostile atmosphere of know-it-all bravado, she lays out the list of possible suspects: family members, the Mitchams, and a local barman with a paedophile record, Wolfgang Zanic. Later at a coffee bar Al Parker opens up and tells Robin he is impressed and moved by the passion she shows for the investigation and agrees to give her two helicopters for an aerial search of the bush. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.
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    Top Of The lake - The Dark Creator

    Episode 5
    Robin is back on the case, whilst Matt gathers troops to hunt his daughter down. Tui's friends trek deep into the mountains to celebrate her birthday, with tragic consequences. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.
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    Top Of The lake - No Goodbyes Thanks

    Episode 6
    Matt reveals a secret that almost destroys Robin as the investigation reaches its shocking conclusion. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.
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    Top Of The lake - A Rainbow Above Us

    Episode 4
    A violent indiscretion sees Robin thrown off the case but she cannot let go. Her passionate affair with Johnno, Tui's half-brother, intensifies and complicates. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.
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    Top Of The lake - The Edge of the Universe

    Episode 3
    Robin makes a breakthrough in her investigation, but Al warns that her own dark past is colouring her judgement. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.