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Resnična zgodba pianista Wladyslawa Szpilmana in njegovega življenja v Varšavi med nacistično okupacijo.

Leto 1959. Priscilla Beaulieu ima štirinajst let in z družino živi v Wiesbadnu v Nemčiji. Nekega dne prejme povabilo na zabavo Elvisa Presleyja, ki v bližini služi vojaški rok. Med glasbenim zvezdnikom in prikupnim dekletom hitro preskočijo iskrice. Elvis jo na nezadovoljstvo njenih staršev želi videti vsakič znova. Stran od oči javnosti se med njima razvije več kot zgolj ljubezen. Elvis Priscilli zaupa vse svoje strahove in upe, pa čeprav se mora zaradi končanja vojaščine kmalu vrniti v ZDA. Priscilli obljubi, da ji bo ostal zvest in da jo bo kljub njeni mladoletnosti poskušal spraviti v svoj Graceland.

Film pripoveduje resnično zgodbo o Henriju Charriereju, ki je bil zaradi umora, za katerega je vedno trdil, da ga ni zagrešil, obsojen na dosmrtno ječo. Poslali so ga v zapor v Francoski Gvajani, kjer je moral vsak dan trpeti zaradi nečloveških razmer. Zaradi podobe metulja, ki ga je kot simbol svobode imel vtetoviranega na prsih, je dobil vzdevek Metulj. Potem ko je večkrat poskušal zaman pobegniti, je bil kruto kaznovan, nato pa mu je nekega dne po dolgih letih le uspelo pobegniti na svobodo. Kasneje je o svoji izkušnji napisal knjigo, ki je postala svetovna uspešnica in po kateri so posneli tudi film.

Resnična biografska zgodba o temnopoltem Solomonu, ki sredi 19. stoletja v New Yorku svobodno dela in srečno živi z družino. Zlobna dvoličneža mu ponudita delo, vendar ga ugrabita in na jugu ZDA prodata v suženjstvo. Med mukotrpnim delom na bombažnih poljih zamenja več lastnikov, dokler ne pristane pri sadističnem Edwinu, ki uživa v zlorabljanju sužnjev. Solomon kljub vsem krivicam ne obupa in išče način, kako bi se vrnil k svoji družini. Film je prejel Zlati Globus za najboljšo dramo.

Režiser z oskarji nagrajenih dram Ostrostrelec, Punčka za milijon dolarjev in Skrivnostna reka predstavlja zgodbo pilota Chesleya Sullenbergerja, ki je po okvari motorjev leta 2009 zaslovel s herojskim pristankom na reki Hudson sredi New Yorka. Čeprav izkušeni Sully kljub neznatnim možnostim uspe rešiti vse potnike, se kmalu po nesreči znajde pod drobnogledom zvedavih novinarjev in preiskovalcev. Ker se na preizkušnji znajdejo njegova kariera, družina in ugled, mora Sully spretno krmariti med trenutnimi pričakovanji in odzivi množic ter trdo realnostjo vsakdanjega življenja.

Heinrich Harrer je s kolegom Petrom Aufschnaiterjem in skupino nemških alpinistov želel splezati na enega najvišjih vrhov, Nanga Parbat. Toda zaradi plazov in poškodb jim ne uspe osvojiti vrha. V tem času se začne 2. svetovna vojna, zato jih aretirajo angleški vojaki in jih kot vojne ujetnike zaprejo v indijske zapore. Po številnih neuspešnih poskusih pobega Harrerju in Petru končno uspe pobegniti. Dve leti traja, da prideta v Tibet, kjer naposled najdeta mir ter spoznata enajstletnega dalajlamo. Še posebej Harrer se s tibetanskim duhovnim vodjo zelo zbliža.

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Sophia is a rebellious, broke anarchist who refuses to grow up. She stumbles upon her passion of selling vintage clothes online and becomes an unlikely businesswoman. As she builds her retail fashion empire, she realizes the value and the difficulty of being the boss of her own life.

The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Javier Giner, a thirty-year-old audiovisual professional, voluntarily checks himself into a rehabilitation center due to his alcohol and cocaine use. Armed with his personal journal and complete determination to reverse the path he's going down, Javier faces what is undoubtedly the key moment of his life. The months of recovery in the rehab center, surrounded by nature and a cast of memorable characters, completely change Javier Giner's life.

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.

Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.

One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987. The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of international veterinarian David Taylor and his work caring for exotic animals at zoos in Britain, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Each series was set during a different decade, with exteriors filmed at Dudley Zoo, Chester Zoo and Knowsley Safari Park. Thirty-two episodes were made in total. Rob Heyland starred as Turner, while other major cast members included James Ellis, Sonia Graham, Peter Gilmore, Heather James, Catherine Schell, Peter Jeffrey, Andrew Robertson and Christina Nagy.

Young Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness and the love and laughter of a doting, slightly eccentric family

Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.

The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.

Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their experience in their first month go from outstanding to downright puzzling. They adore the food and wine but do encounter amusing cultural barriers from the lengthy discussion every time they go to the butcher, to the plumber who promises to come back but is unseen for the the next month. They also learn that their old friends in England are lining up to visit them in the summer.

Sword of Honour is a two-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semi-autobiographical World War II trilogy that aired Channel 4 in 2001. It centers on Guy Crouchback's, played by Daniel Craig, heroic quest to fight for a deep moral cause and to reclaim his manhood after a shattering divorce from the society beauty Virginia Troy.

Historical drama adapted from the diary of the famous British travel-writer Maria Graham who arrived in Chile in 1822 just as the country was becoming independent from Spain. She is a woman coming to terms with her husband’s recent death: In her discovery of this breathtakingly beautiful country, its people and its customs, she learns to live again.

Based on August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel about his marriage to Siri von Essen. She was married when she met him, but abandoned her husband, became Strindberg’s mistress and later his wife.

In 1930s England, an orphaned girl and her lovely aunt raise an abandoned seal pup.