John Wood

John Wood

John Wood (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English stage and screen actor known for his distinguished career in both classical and contemporary theater. He was born on July 5, 1930, in Derbyshire, England. Wood gained prominence as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he performed in numerous Shakespearean productions. Wood's notable stage roles include performances in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "The Rivals," and "Travesties," among many others. He also appeared in various productions on Broadway, earning critical acclaim for his performances in plays such as "Amadeus" and "The Winslow Boy." In addition to his stage work, John Wood had a presence in film and television. He starred in movies like "WarGames" (1983) and "Chocolat" (2000). His television credits include appearances in series such as "The Avengers," "Inspector Morse," and "Midsomer Murders." John Wood was highly regarded for his exceptional acting talent, particularly his ability to portray complex characters with depth and nuance. He received several awards throughout his career, including a Tony Award for his performance in "Travesties" and a Laurence Olivier Award for his work in "The Philanthropist." Sadly, John Wood passed away on August 6, 2011, in England, leaving behind a legacy of remarkable performances in the world of theater and film.

  • Title: John Wood
  • Popularity: 6.986
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-07-05
  • Place of Birth: Derbyshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: John Woods, Tom Wood, Джон Вуд
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John Wood Movies

  • 1983
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    WarGames

    WarGames

    7.076 1983 HD

    High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he...

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  • 2000
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    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    7 2000 HD

    A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they...

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  • 1985
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    Ladyhawke

    Ladyhawke

    7 1985 HD

    Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst...

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  • 1998
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    The Revengers' Comedies

    The Revengers' Comedies

    5.8 1998 HD

    After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin...

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  • 1993
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    Shadowlands

    Shadowlands

    6.9 1993 HD

    C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

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  • 1986
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    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    6.1 1986 HD

    Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown...

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  • 1986
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    Lady Jane

    Lady Jane

    6.8 1986 HD

    The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep...

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  • 1993
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    The Young Americans

    The Young Americans

    5.8 1993 HD

    Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by...

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  • 1972
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    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    6.473 1972 HD

    Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to...

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  • 1995
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    Citizen X

    Citizen X

    7.2 1995 HD

    Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of...

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  • 1992
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    Orlando

    Orlando

    6.9 1992 HD

    England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to...

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  • 1998
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    4.4 1998 HD

    British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the...

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  • 1970
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    One More Time

    One More Time

    4.3 1970 HD

    London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

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  • 2001
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    The Body

    The Body

    5.493 2001 HD

    An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was...

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  • 2002
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    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    6.357 2002 HD

    In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a...

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  • 1971
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    Nicholas and Alexandra

    Nicholas and Alexandra

    6.9 1971 HD

    Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

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  • 1996
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    6.9 1996 HD

    Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns...

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  • 1996
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    Rasputin

    Rasputin

    6.5 1996 HD

    Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one...

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  • 1995
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    Uncovered

    Uncovered

    5.651 1995 HD

    While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts,...

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  • 2005
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    The White Countess

    The White Countess

    6.2 2005 HD

    In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind...

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  • 1967
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    Poor Cherry

    Poor Cherry

    1 1967 HD

    A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and...

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  • 1978
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    Somebody Killed Her Husband

    Somebody Killed Her Husband

    5.1 1978 HD

    A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

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  • 1970
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    Which Way to the Front?

    Which Way to the Front?

    4.833 1970 HD

    Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not...

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  • 1963
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    That Kind of Girl

    That Kind of Girl

    5.6 1963 HD

    That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it...

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  • 1962
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    Postman's Knock

    Postman's Knock

    4.3 1962 HD

    Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery....

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  • 2004
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    The Return of the Dancing Master

    The Return of the Dancing Master

    4.3 2004 HD

    Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town...

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  • 1997
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    The Gambler

    The Gambler

    4.8 1997 HD

    Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him...

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  • 1987
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    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    4.5 1987 HD

    Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...

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  • 1995
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    Sabrina

    Sabrina

    6.179 1995 HD

    Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of...

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  • 1960
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    5.3 1960 HD

    Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

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  • 2003
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    Imagining Argentina

    Imagining Argentina

    5.604 2003 HD

    Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and...

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  • 1985
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    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    7.4 1985 HD

    Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre....

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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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  • 1967
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    Just Like a Woman

    Just Like a Woman

    5 1967 HD

    Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show...

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  • 1964
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    A Choice of Coward: Design for Living

    A Choice of Coward: Design for Living

    1 1964 HD

    A comedy concerning a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship (Episode of A Choice of Coward).

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  • 1977
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    Blue Fire Lady

    Blue Fire Lady

    6.5 1977 HD

    Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to...

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  • 1995
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    Richard III

    Richard III

    6.683 1995 HD

    A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by...

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  • 1994
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    The Madness of King George

    The Madness of King George

    6.756 1994 HD

    Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...

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  • 2000
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    Longitude

    Longitude

    7.3 2000 HD

    Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

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  • 1999
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    The Venice Project

    The Venice Project

    1 1999 HD

    Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and...

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  • 1999
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    An Ideal Husband

    An Ideal Husband

    6.418 1999 HD

    Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London...

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  • 1963
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    Love Is a Ball

    Love Is a Ball

    4.6 1963 HD

    Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the...

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  • 2000
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance

    5.8 2000 HD

    The elder Jones's lecture tour takes parents and son to India, where Indy explores the meaning of faith in oneself with Theosophist philosopher Jiddu...

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  • 2000
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    The Little Vampire

    The Little Vampire

    6.9 2000 HD

    Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with...

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  • 1984
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    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask

    1 1984 HD

    Do home computers scare you. confuse you—make you want to curl up in a ball and hide? As the computer revolution explodes into our lives, it's...

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  • 1999
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    Mad Cows

    Mad Cows

    3.9 1999 HD

    When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...

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  • 1959
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    Idol on Parade

    Idol on Parade

    7 1959 HD

    A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

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  • 1985
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    The Empty Beach

    The Empty Beach

    3.2 1985 HD

    Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of...

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  • 1992
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    Memento Mori

    Memento Mori

    6.2 1992 HD

    Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

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  • 1963
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    Just for Fun

    Just for Fun

    3.7 1963 HD

    When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own...

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  • 1961
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    7.8 1961 HD

    Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work....

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  • 1986
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    Heartburn

    Heartburn

    6 1986 HD

    Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her...

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  • 1963
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    The Mouse on the Moon

    The Mouse on the Moon

    5.9 1963 HD

    Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new...

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  • 1997
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    Metroland

    Metroland

    5.9 1997 HD

    In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

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  • 2004
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    The Rocket Post

    The Rocket Post

    5.6 2004 HD

    Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The...

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  • 1981
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    Marriage

    Marriage

    1 1981 HD

    Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better...

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  • 1938
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    Oh, Boy!

    Oh, Boy!

    1 1938 HD

    A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival...

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  • 2002
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    Gay Propaganda

    Gay Propaganda

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1965
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    Out of the Unknown

    Out of the Unknown

    6.8 1965 HD

    Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 2002
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    Napoleon

    Napoleon

    6.9 2002 HD

    A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed...

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  • 2002
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    Foyle's War

    Foyle's War

    7.846 2002 HD

    As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War...

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  • 1963
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    Espionage

    Espionage

    1 1963 HD

    Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.

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  • 1967
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    Hondo

    Hondo

    6.2 1967 HD

    Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series...

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  • 1978
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    The Truckies

    The Truckies

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1960
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    Barnaby Rudge

    Barnaby Rudge

    5 1960 HD

    Barnaby Rudge is a British drama television series which originally aired on the BBC in thirteen episodes between 30 September and 23 December 1960....

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  • 1970
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    Doomwatch

    Doomwatch

    5.667 1970 HD

    Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the...

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  • 1987
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    At Mother's Request

    At Mother's Request

    1 1987 HD

    A mother forces her son to kill her father, based upon a true event in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1978.

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  • 2001
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    Love in a Cold Climate

    Love in a Cold Climate

    7.8 2001 HD

    Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.

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  • 2002
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    7 2002 HD

    The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of...

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  • 1970
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    7.3 1970 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

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