David Threlfall

David Threlfall

Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.

  • Title: David Threlfall
  • Popularity: 9.725
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1953-10-12
  • Place of Birth: Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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David Threlfall Movies

  • 2003
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    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    7.158 2003 HD

    After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase...

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  • 2006
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    Alien Autopsy

    Alien Autopsy

    5.627 2006 HD

    Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

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  • 1992
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    Patriot Games

    Patriot Games

    6.678 1992 HD

    When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

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  • 1991
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    A Murder of Quality

    A Murder of Quality

    5.476 1991 HD

    At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just...

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  • 1999
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    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    4.464 1999 HD

    Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

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  • 1977
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    The Kiss of Death

    The Kiss of Death

    6.3 1977 HD

    Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend...

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  • 2014
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    Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

    Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

    6.9 2014 HD

    The life and times of Tommy Cooper

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  • 2022
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    Dodger Special: Train

    Dodger Special: Train

    1 2022 HD

    Dodger reunites with Fagin's gang, and they try their boldest plan yet - a train robbery!

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  • 2023
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    Dodger Special: Bad Egg

    Dodger Special: Bad Egg

    1 2023 HD

    When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!

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  • 2015
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    The Ark

    The Ark

    5.8 2015 HD

    Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful...

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  • 2007
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    Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    6.721 2007 HD

    When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard...

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  • 1979
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    The Brylcreem Boys

    The Brylcreem Boys

    1 1979 HD

    Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward...

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  • 1989
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    When the Whales Came

    When the Whales Came

    6.393 1989 HD

    A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a...

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  • 1977
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    Scum

    Scum

    7.344 1977 HD

    A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.

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  • 1989
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    Seeing in the Dark

    Seeing in the Dark

    1 1989 HD

    Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship...

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  • 2014
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    Black Sea

    Black Sea

    6.3 2014 HD

    A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and...

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  • 2003
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    Chunky Monkey

    Chunky Monkey

    2 2003 HD

    Fitness fanatic, Donald Leek, indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with, someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress, Julie Andrews, who...

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  • 1990
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    The Russia House

    The Russia House

    6.085 1990 HD

    Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to...

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  • 2006
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    Housewife, 49

    Housewife, 49

    6.281 2006 HD

    Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in...

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  • 2001
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    Conspiracy

    Conspiracy

    7.2 2001 HD

    At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the...

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  • 1990
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    He's Asking For Me

    He's Asking For Me

    1 1990 HD

    After a sheltered upbringing in St. Helena, Norah arrives in England and goes to live in London, taken under the wing of her Uncle and his business...

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  • 1983
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6.5 1983 HD

    An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

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  • 1999
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    Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

    Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

    1 1999 HD

    The BBC drama about growing up in the turbulent, tuneful '60s. Manchester, England, 1965. "You'll never meet anybody worth knowing working at the...

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  • 2007
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    Hot Fuzz

    Hot Fuzz

    7.564 2007 HD

    Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he...

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  • 1989
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    Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

    Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

    6.6 1989 HD

    A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation...

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  • 1982
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    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

    1 1982 HD

    Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

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  • 2005
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    The Queen's Sister

    The Queen's Sister

    5.5 2005 HD

    An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal...

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  • 2006
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    Like Minds

    Like Minds

    6.3 2006 HD

    A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.

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  • 2009
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    Nowhere Boy

    Nowhere Boy

    7.179 2009 HD

    The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years in Liverpool and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also...

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  • 1983
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    Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

    4.7 1983 HD

    British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some...

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  • 1993
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    Diana: Her True Story

    Diana: Her True Story

    1.7 1993 HD

    Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.

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  • 1989
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    A Casualty of War

    A Casualty of War

    1 1989 HD

    David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage...

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  • 1984
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    Dog Ends

    Dog Ends

    1 1984 HD

    A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a...

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  • 2012
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    Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

    Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

    9 2012 HD

    A look at the life of John Cooper Clarke. From his rise as a 'punk poet', through his heroin addiction, and finally to his comeback.

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  • 1993
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    The Summer House

    The Summer House

    5.4 1993 HD

    Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David...

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  • 1993
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    A Statement of Affairs

    A Statement of Affairs

    1 1993 HD

    A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to...

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  • 2020
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    Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

    Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

    1 2020 HD

    Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the...

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  • 2020
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    Faith Healer

    Faith Healer

    1 2020 HD

    The Fantastic Francis Hardy travels the most remote corners of Wales, Scotland and Ireland attempting to heal those who wish to be healed. His wife...

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  • 1986
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    Paradise Postponed

    Paradise Postponed

    7 1986 HD

    A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel...

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  • 1976
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    I Want to Be Like You

    I Want to Be Like You

    1 1976 HD

    Brian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee...

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  • 2024
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    Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

    Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

    1 2024 HD

    Round the corner, not far away, Bing is celebrating his birthday – hooray! Experience your favourite Bing episodes and join in with new...

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  • 1970
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    Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama

    Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama

    1 1970 HD

    Centres around the Mitchell family, who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the knowledge that it was perpetrated by a...

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  • 1982
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    Rolling Home

    Rolling Home

    1 1982 HD

    Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and...

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  • 1994
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    Men of the World

    Men of the World

    5 1994 HD

    Men of the World is a BBC sitcom which starred David Threlfall and John Simm.

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  • 2004
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    Shameless

    Shameless

    7.673 2004 HD

    The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council...

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  • 2004
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    Shameless

    Shameless

    7.673 2004 HD

    The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council...

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  • 1999
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    Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

    Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

    6.5 1999 HD

    Ellie and Arden Brooks seem to be destined to play out their lives behind a Manchester chip shop counter. Mercilessly put down by their strict...

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  • 1990
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    Nightingales

    Nightingales

    6.4 1990 HD

    Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and...

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  • 1982
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    7 1982 HD

    Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he...

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  • 2006
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    Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

    Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

    7.3 2006 HD

    Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.

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  • 1986
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    Paradise Postponed

    Paradise Postponed

    5 1986 HD

    This British series, based on books by John Mortimer, follows the rise of Leslie Titmuss from humble beginnings in the 1950s to Tory cabinet minister...

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  • 2002
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    Cutting It

    Cutting It

    6.667 2002 HD

    Allie Henshall and Gavin Ferraday are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey and Sydney...

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  • 1987
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    The Marksman

    The Marksman

    1 1987 HD

    Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy's father, who returns from Spain to...

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  • 2024
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    Nightsleeper

    Nightsleeper

    6.708 2024 HD

    Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard....

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  • 2021
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    Wolfe

    Wolfe

    6.2 2021 HD

    The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England.

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  • 2013
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    What Remains

    What Remains

    7.264 2013 HD

    When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her...

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  • 2015
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    Code of a Killer

    Code of a Killer

    7.3 2015 HD

    Based on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by Detective Chief Superintendent David...

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  • 2015
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    Midwinter of the Spirit

    Midwinter of the Spirit

    6.5 2015 HD

    Country vicar Merrily Watkins just happens to be one of the few women priests working as an exorcist. When a man is found murdered by crucifixion,...

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  • 2023
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    Funny Woman

    Funny Woman

    6.9 2023 HD

    A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s comedy, and in doing so takes London by storm.

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  • 2018
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    Troy: Fall of a City

    Troy: Fall of a City

    6 2018 HD

    A rich story of love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging told from the perspective of the Trojan royal family at the heart of the siege of Troy.

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  • 2012
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    Ripper Street

    Ripper Street

    7.401 2012 HD

    A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division...

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  • 2022
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    Art That Made Us

    Art That Made Us

    5.5 2022 HD

    An alternative history of the British Isles, told through art. Looking at 1,500 years and eight dramatic turning points, acclaimed artists and...

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  • 2017
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    Urban Myths

    Urban Myths

    7.6 2017 HD

    Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly...

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  • 2000
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    A Dinner of Herbs

    A Dinner of Herbs

    6 2000 HD

    After taking his young son Roddy to a remote Northumberland village, Peter Greenbank meets a violent death, leaving the boy alone with no family to...

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  • 2000
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    In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

    6 2000 HD

    In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered...

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  • 2024
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    Passenger

    Passenger

    6.8 2024 HD

    A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.

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  • 1983
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    The Gathering Seed

    The Gathering Seed

    1 1983 HD

    The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two

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  • 2002
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    Spooks

    Spooks

    7.618 2002 HD

    Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The...

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  • 1970
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    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    7 1970 HD

    Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't...

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  • 2024
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    The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

    The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

    6.543 2024 HD

    Legendary highwayman Dick Turpin sets out on a series of wildly absurd escapades when he's made the reluctant leader of a band of outlaws—and...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.125 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1982
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    Objects of Affection

    Objects of Affection

    7 1982 HD

    A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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  • 1991
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    Titmuss Regained

    Titmuss Regained

    1 1991 HD

    Leslie Titmuss returns to Rapstone village and will do whatever it takes to fit in with the highest levels of society. Married to his second wife,...

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  • 1990
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    Have I Got News for You

    Have I Got News for You

    7.1 1990 HD

    Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party,...

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  • 1970
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    The Death of Bunny Munro

    The Death of Bunny Munro

    1 1970 HD

    Following his wife Libby's death by suicide, sex addicted, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself...

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  • 1970
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    The Death of Bunny Munro

    The Death of Bunny Munro

    7.673 1970 HD

    The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council...

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