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- StarsG. Gordon LiddyDavid FrostGerald FordThis Mini series gives insight on Richard M. Nixon and the scandal he was involved in that eventually led to his resignation as America's president.
- DirectorMichael WhyteStarsJulie ChristieDonald SutherlandJohn LynchA Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she meets a mysterious American, but then her son gets involved with a violent political group.
- DirectorLeslie MegaheyStarsColin FirthAmina AnnabiJim CarterIn medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
- DirectorSuri KrishnammaStarsAlbert FinneyBrenda FrickerMichael GambonA friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsEileen AtkinsKate BeckinsaleSheila BurrellA recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsAlfred MolinaJoan PlowrightMiranda RichardsonFour English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsHugh GrantAlan RickmanGeorgina CatesSet right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsPauline CollinsGeorge TaboriUlrich TukurThe deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
- DirectorUdayan PrasadStarsOm PuriPawan MalhotraAngeline BallAmir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsSteven MackintoshRupert GravesMiriam MargolyesKarl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same.
- DirectorZeming ZhangStarsHsiao-hsuan ChenLinian LiuDaming ChenA Chinese woman narrowly avoids an arranged marriage and emigrates to London.
- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsStephen FryJude LawVanessa RedgraveThe turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.