Under Anden Verdenskrig flygter den unge jøde Shosanna til Paris efter at have set sin familie blive henrettet af naziobersten Landa. Samtidig samler den hårdkogte løjtnant Aldo Raine en gruppe jødisk-amerikanske soldater, der skal føre guerillakrig mod nazisterne i Europa. Det bringer dem til sidst til Paris, hvor Shosanna er blevet biografejer med egne planer om hævn mod Landa, Hitler og resten af nazislænget.
Winston Churchill står over for et umuligt valg. Året er 1940, og den britiske statsmand er lige blevet udnævnt til premierminister. Situationen i Europa er desperat, og Hitlers tropper truer med at invadere Storbritannien. Skal Churchill forsøge at forhandle en fredsaftale på plads med Nazityskland? Eller skal briterne kæmpe videre i krigen mod forfærdelige odds?
Købmandsdatteren Margaret vil være mønsterbryder og kæmper sig op til en magtfuld post i samfundet. I 1979 bliver hun valgt som Storbritanniens første kvindelige premierminister. Hendes uforsonlige linje giver hende tilnavnet Jernladyen blandt kolleger og vælgere. Heller ikke på hjemmefronten er Maggie Thatcher populær, idet både hendes mand, Denis, og parrets voksne datter, Carol, føler sig forsømt
Ny dansk dokumentarfilm afslører virkeligheden bag den globale våbenhandel - en branche, som tæller sin profit i milliarder og sine tab i menneskeliv. Gennem interviews med whistleblowers, efterforskere, anklagere samt insidere fra både militæret og militærindustrien, viser filmen hvordan våbenhandlen, med vores politiske ledere som villige mellemmænd, er drivkraften bag krig.
Winston Churchill drømmer allerede i en ung alder om en politisk karriere - en ambition, han har arvet efter sin far, ministeren Randolph Churchill. Han indser, at en succesfuld militærkarriere kan være et vigtigt springbræt i den retning. Det bringer ham bl.a. til Indien, Sudan og Sydafrika, inden han vender tilbage til England og som 26-årig bliver valgt som konservativt medlem af Underhuset.
Den britiske premierminister Winston Churchill får et slagtilfælde i sommeren 1953, det bliver holdt hemmeligt for resten af verden.
I 1943 udtænker den tyske efterretningstjeneste en plan om at kidnappe Winston Churchill, der skal tilbringe en weekend i en landsby i det østlige England. Faldskærmssoldaten Kurt Steiner sættes i spidsen for operationen.
De to uforsonlige fjender på hver sin side af den brutale og mangeårige konflikt i Nordirland - politikeren og præsten fra Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley og Sinn Fein politikeren Martin McGuinness - mødes helt ekstraordinært for at forsøge at tale fredeligt sammen. Flere ting går ikke som planlagt, og de to mænd kommer på en uventet rejse.
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 fit into the regular programme.
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
In a televised version of the popular podcast, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, and guests chat about the stories behind the news.
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
Questions to the Prime Minister. Held weekly since 1961, Prime Minister's Questions, also referred to as PMQs, gives Members of the British Parliament a chance to question the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. PMQs takes place at midday every Wednesday at the Palace of Westminster when the House of Commons is sitting.
The Politician's Wife is a British television political drama written by Paula Milne, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995 and starring Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson. The story centres around high-flying politician Duncan Matlock, Families Minister for the UK Government, who becomes embroiled in tabloid scandal as it is discovered that he has been having an affair with a former escort turned parliamentary researcher. Duncan's wife Flora becomes the focus of media attention as her reactions to the revelations are played out. Initially she plays out the part of the loyal wife, but as an aide of her husband feeds her details about the affair and various other political scandals that could be made to happen. She begins to sabotage her husband's integrity and reputation through a campaign of leaks and misinformation to the press and British Conservative Party stalwarts. After a series of increasingly sensational and damaging stories in the press, her husband is forced to resign in humiliation. The last episode closes with the results of the by-election being announced on TV. Flora Matlock wins with the support of her party whilst her husband is exiled to a minor post in Belgium.
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.
The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.
Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.
A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.
A 1994 war television miniseries which portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, and concluding with the Tehran Conference.
