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The Hanging Gale (1995)
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
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John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985)
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
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Zastrozzi: A Romance
In a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda, abducts his half-brother, Verezzi, and torments him into believing his lover, Julia, has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution, and eternal damnation.
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Yellowthread Street
Yellowthread Street is a 1990 ITV police drama about detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police based on the novels by William Leonard Marshall.
In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong — DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong; Senior Inspector Christopher O’Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic; and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer — attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes. For example, in 1988’s Out of Nowhere, DCI Feiffer must figure out why in the pre-dawn hours, four people in a plate-glass-filled van with Chinese opera blaring out the tape deck were driving on the wrong side of a deserted motorway, miles from the nearest on-ramp, before dying in a violent collision with an oncoming lorry. And why, moments before the collision, did one of the passengers shoot the van driver?
Thirteen fifty minute episodes were made.
Cast members included: Ray Lonnen, Bruce Payne, Robert Taylor, Tzi Ma, Mark McGann and Catherine Neilson. Tetchie Agbayani appeared in one episode.
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Shackleton
Shackleton is a 2002 British television film that tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. It was broadcast in two parts by Channel 4. Directed by Charles Sturridge, the cast includes Kenneth Branagh in the title role, along with Kevin McNally, Lorcan Cranitch, Embeth Davidtz, Danny Webb, Matt Day and Phoebe Nicholls as Lady Shackleton. It was filmed in the UK, Iceland and Greenland. The film used first-hand accounts by the men on the expedition to re-tell the story, and Roland Huntford, the author of the definitive Shackleton biography, was a production advisor.
In North America it was broadcast on the A&E Network. The film was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, six BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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The Grand
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s.
There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann.
The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
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