6.8

Robin Hood

2010, USA, UK

• Actors: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, Mark Addy, Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes, Alan Doyle, Douglas Hodge, Léa Seydoux, Robert Pugh, Gerard McSorley, Velibor Topic, Ciaran Flynn, Simon McBurney, Denise Gough, John Nicholas, Thomas Arnold, Pip Carter, Mark Lewis Jones, Bronson Webb, Denis Menochet, Jamie Beamish, John Atterbury, Luke Evans
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
• Director(s): Ridley Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Birth of a legend. Following King Richard's death in France, archer Robin Longstride, along with Will Scarlett, Alan-a-Dale and Little John, returns to England. They encounter the dying Robert of Locksley, whose party was ambushed by treacherous Godfrey, who hopes to facilitate a French invasion of England. Robin promises the dying knight he will return his sword to his father Walter in Nottingham. Here Walter encourages him to impersonate the dead man to prevent his land being confiscated by the crown, and he finds himself with Marian, a ready-made wife. Hoping to stir baronial opposition to weak King John and allow an easy French take-over, Godfrey worms his way into the king's service as Earl Marshal of England and brutally invades towns under the pretext of collecting Royal taxes. Can Robin navigate the politics of barons, royals, traitors, and the French?

  7.1

Made in Dagenham

2010, UK

• Actors: Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Lorraine Stanley, Nicola Duffett, Geraldine James, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Aubrey, Daniel Mays, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Phil Cornwell, Karen Seacombe, Thomas Arnold, Sian Scott, Robbie Kay, Andrew Lincoln, Rosamund Pike, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Gina Bramhill, Rupert Graves, Marcus Hutton, Miranda Richardson, Joseph Kloska, Miles Jupp, Frank Baker, Philip Perry, Richard Schiff, Peter-Hugo Daly, Simon Armstrong
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
• Director(s): Nigel Cole
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1968, the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the United Kingdom. In addition to the thousands of male employees, there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied, the women, represented by the shop steward and Rita O'Grady, work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better deal. However, Rita learns that there is a larger issue in this dispute considering that women are paid an appalling fraction of the men's wages for the same work across the board on the sole basis of their sex. Refusing to tolerate this inequality any longer, O'Grady leads a strike by her fellow machinists for equal pay for equal work. What follows would test the patience of all involved in a grinding labour and political struggle that ultimately would advance the cause of women's rights around the world.

  6.9

Me and Orson Welles

2008, UK, USA

• Actors: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly, James Tupper, Leo Bill, Al Weaver, Iain McKee, Simon Lee Phillips, Simon Nehan, Imogen Poots, Patrick Kennedy, Janie Dee, Marlene Sidaway, Garrick Hagon, Megan Maczko, Aaron Brown, Travis Oliver, Nathan Osgood, Robert Wilfort, Michael Brandon, Saskia Reeves, Aidan McArdle, Michael J. McEvoy, Thomas Arnold, Jo McInnes, Daniel Tuite
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Richard Linklater
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets John Houseman, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in one week's time. In turn, Welles realizes that his name will either be strengthened or ruined in the theater community by this production. Richard is taken under the wing by the production's Jane-of-All-Trades, Sonja Jones. Known as the Ice Queen by the male cast, Sonja deflects much of the unwanted sexual attention by jokingly implying that she and Richard are having a fling, which Richard wants nothing more than to be the truth. As the end of the week and opening night approaches, Richard, having seen Welles' behavior, has to decide if acting in this production is worth it at any cost.

  6.9

The Duchess

2007, UK, Italy, France

• Actors: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle, John Shrapnel, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Godfrey, Michael Medwin, Justin Edwards, Richard McCabe, Calvin Dean, Hannah Stokely, Andrew Armour, Emily Jewell, Bruce Mackinnon, Georgia King, Luke Norris, Eva Hrela, Poppy Wigglesworth, Emily Cohen, Mercy Fiennes Tiffin, Sebastian Applewhite, Angus McEwan, Kate Burdette, Laura Stevely, Ben Garlick, Max Bennett
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
• Director(s): Saul Dibb
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband,strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.

  6.2

The Golden Compass

2006, USA, UK

• Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McShane, Sam Elliott, Christopher Lee, Kristin Scott Thomas, Edward de Souza, Kathy Bates, Simon McBurney, Jack Shepherd, Magda Szubanski, Derek Jacobi, Clare Higgins, Charlie Rowe, Steven Loton, Michael Antoniou, Mark Mottram, Paul Antony-Barber, Jason Watkins, Jody Halse, Hattie Morahan, John Bett, John Franklyn-Robbins
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Chris Weitz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...