The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Augustus (Episode 1)
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered dramatic territory similar to that of the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives; in particular, the Emperor Tiberius is portrayed much more sympathetically. All six episodes were written by Philip Mackie and directed by Derek Bennett.
Episode 1: As the first man to establish the Principate in Rome, Augustus nears death. Who will he choose as successor: his stepson Tiberius or his grandson Agrippa, who is in exile?
Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v4w1qrx-the-caesars-miniseries-1968-germanicus-episode-2.html
Major cast:
Roland Culver as Augustus
Eric Flynn as Germanicus
André Morell as Tiberius
Barrie Ingham as Sejanus
Ralph Bates as Caligula
Freddie Jones as Claudius
Sonia Dresdel as Livia
Nicola Pagett as Messalina
Suzan Farmer as Livilla
William Corderoy as Drusus Julius Caesar
Derek Newark as Agrippa Postumus
Caroline Blakiston as Agrippina the Elder
Martin Potter as Nero Julius Caesar
Jonathan Collins as Tiberius Gemellus
Pollyanna Williams as Julia Drusilla
Jenny White as Julia Livilla
Karol Keyes as Agrippina the Younger
Barbara Murray as Milonia Caesonia
Jerome Willis as Naevius Sutorius Macro
Kevin Stoney as Thrasyllus of Mendes
Donald Eccles as Marcus Cocceius Nerva
John Phillips as Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
John Paul as Cassius Chaerea
Joan Heath as Munatia Plancina
Wanda Ventham as Ennia Thrasylla
Sean Arnold as Marcus Aemlius Lepidus
John Normington as Gaius Julius Callistus
John Woodvine as Publius Vitellius the Younger
Gerald Harper as Lucius Vitellius the Elder
Mark Hawkins as Mnester
Roger Rowland as Quintus Veranius
Charles Lloyd-Pack as Crispus
George Sewell as Ennius
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The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Germanicus (Episode 2)
Episode 2: Tiberius stalls with Rome's consuls and senators whether he will become the next Emperor. Army mutinies break out in Colonia on the Rhine and Pannonia, testing Germanicus, Drusus and Sejanus.
Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v4w1rjn-the-caesars-miniseries-1968-tiberius-episode-3.html
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The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Tiberius (Episode 3)
Episode 3: The Emperor miscalculates by transferring Germanicus, to set up a puppet ruler in Armenia, and in creating a confusion in command with Syria's arrogant governor Piso. This error results in tragedy for Germanicus, Piso and Tiberius himself.
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The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Sejanus (Episode 4)
Episode 4: Retreating to Capri, Tiberius trusts Praetorian Guard captain Sejanus to run Rome but finds the latter is using his post to eliminate rivals in the Agrippina party. The Emperor devises Sejanus' precipitous downfall.
Episode 5: https://rumble.com/v4w1vz6-the-caesars-miniseries-1968-caligula-episode-5.html
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The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Caligula (Episode 5)
Episode 5: Macro uses Caligula's romance with his wife to advance and helps end Tiberius's rule. What Macro hadn't expected was that, after a charm offensive, Caligula would call himself a god and terrorize many in court.
Episode 6: https://rumble.com/v4w1z9q-the-caesars-miniseries-1968-claudius-episode-6.html
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The Caesars (Miniseries 1968) | Claudius (Episode 6)
Episode 6: The impulsive Emperor threatens everyone around him with sudden death and ramps up a campaign to squeeze funds, from not just rich Senators but also from common Romans. Will someone stop him?
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Cronaca di una morte annunciata/Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Film 1987-ENG SUB)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Italian: Cronaca di una morte annunciata, Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.
The film was adapted by Tonino Guerra from the eponymous novella by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins. It stars Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon, Gian Maria Volonté and Irene Papas. The film premiered at Cannes film festival in May 1987.
While many of the actors are unknown to American audiences, Chronicle of a Death Foretold has a cast of international European stars: the film displays the talent of the veterans Irene Papas and Gian Maria Volonté. However, the casting was notable for its use of upcoming young European actors: Ornella Muti, as the beautiful and mysterious Angela Vicario who motivates the drama, Anthony Delon (son of Alain Delon) as the man she blames, and Rupert Everett.
Cast & Characters:
Ornella Muti ... Angela Vicario
Rupert Everett ... Bayardo San Román
Gian Maria Volonté ... Cristobal Bedoya
Anthony Delon ... Santiago Nasar
Lucia Bosé ... Placida Linero
Irene Papas ... Angela's mother
Sergi Mateu ... Young Cristóbal
Vicky Hernández ... Clotilde Armaneta
Alain Cuny ... Widower Xius
Carolina Rosi ... Flora Miguel
Edgardo Román ... Faustino Santos
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LOTR: The Two Towers | Middle-earth Atlas: Tracing the Journeys of the Fellowship (Part 3-Extra 3)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
This map gives a geographical context to the events that take place in The Two Towers.
There are four alternate paths which I have merged in one file as follows:
1. Merry and Pippin
2. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli
3. Gandalf
4. Frodo and Sam
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LOTR: The Two Towers | The Taming of Smeagol (Part 3-Doc 6-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Extra 1: https://rumble.com/v4vopck-lotr-the-two-towers-andy-serkis-animation-reference-part-3-doc-7-ita-sub.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | Andy Serkis: Animation Reference (Part 3-Extra 1-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
For the sequence where Sméagol confronts Gollum, Peter Jackson instructed his team of animators to follow closely the on-set footage of Andy Serkis. Andy's performance of these two alternate personalities became the live-action reference that helped the Animators bring this scene to life.
In this comparison, you will be able to view Andy's original performance and how that was interpreted by the Animators in the final film.
Extra 2: https://rumble.com/v4voqht-lotr-the-two-towers-gollums-stand-in-part-3-extra-2-ita-sub.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | Gollum's 'Stand In' (Part 3-Extra 2-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Extra 3: https://rumble.com/v4vorxf-lotr-the-two-towers-middle-earth-atlas-tracing-the-journeys-of-the-fellowsh.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | Designing Middle-earth (Part 3-Doc 3-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Doc 4: https://rumble.com/v4vnj68-lotr-the-two-towers-weta-workshop-part-3-doc-4-ita-sub.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | Weta Workshop (Part 3-Doc 4-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Doc 5: https://rumble.com/v4vnp9k-lotr-the-two-towers-new-zealand-as-middle-earth-part-3-doc-5-ita-sub.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | New Zealand as Middle-earth (Part 3-Doc 5-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Doc 6: https://rumble.com/v4vomt9-lotr-the-two-towers-the-taming-of-smeagol-part-3-doc-6-eng-sub.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien - Origins of Middle-earth (Part 3-Doc 1-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Doc 2: https://rumble.com/v4vmzl6-lotr-the-two-towers-from-book-to-script-finding-the-story-part-3-doc-2-ita-.html
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LOTR: The Two Towers | From Book to Script - Finding the Story (Part 3-Doc 2-ITA SUB)
Extended Edition - The Appendices
Disc I - Part III - The Journey Continues
Doc 3: https://rumble.com/v4vn5p6-lotr-the-two-towers-designing-middle-earth-part-3-doc-3-ita-sub.html
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 6 - ENG SUB)
Episode 6 (Season Finale): In a position for revenge against the politicians and Mafia criminals who ruined his life, Cattani takes action.
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 5 - ENG SUB)
Episode 5: Cattani's victory leaves him without friends in Rome.
Episode 6: https://rumble.com/v4v84qf-la-piovra-2-tv-series-1986-episode-6-eng-sub.html
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 4 - ENG SUB)
Episode 4: Cattani implements his plan to expose 'respectable' people secretly linked to the Mafia.
Episode 5: https://rumble.com/v4v7ygk-la-piovra-2-tv-series-1986-episode-5-eng-sub.html
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 3 - ENG SUB)
Episode 3: After being accepted by his new Mafia friends, Cattani is recruited to a cultural association researching the ancestral traditions of Italy.
Episode 4: https://rumble.com/v4v4qst-la-piovra-2-tv-series-1986-episode-4.html
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 2 - ENG SUB)
Episode 2: Cattani goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit.
Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v4v4b8f-la-piovra-2-tv-series-1986-episode-3.html
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La Piovra 2 (TV Series 1986 - Episode 1 - ENG SUB)
The second season, again having 6 episodes of 60 minutes each, was directed by Florestano Vancini. Tt was broadcast for the first time from 13 January to 20 January 1986 on Rai 1. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.
The fact that there was a second season at all was controversial, and previous director Damiano Damiani thought it was a mistake to shoot sequels so he withdrew from the project. Screenwriter Ennio De Concini had to be persuaded by producer Sergio Silva to return, and finally Florestano Vancini was hired to direct. Legendary composer Ennio Morricone joined the project and composed the soundtrack. Shooting again took place at several locations in Italy and Switzerland.
Among the interpreters: Michele Placido, Florinda Bolkan, Martin Balsam, Paul Guers, Sergio Fantoni, Renato Mori, Renato Cecchetto, Nicole Jamet, Cariddi Nardulli, François Périer, Jacques Dacqmine, Geoffrey Copleston, Daniel Ceccaldi, Lara Wendel e Dagmar Lassander.
In this season, the focus increasingly shifts to the international business dealings of the Sicilian Mafia. The emphasis is on American connections and contacts with the Italian government. The story showcases the intrigues and violent pressure of a secret society called Itala in Sicily. The first two episodes pick up the thread of the first season.
Episode 1: Corrado Cattani tries to reassure his daughter, whose stability was rocked after her Mafia kidnapping.
S02E2: https://rumble.com/v4v0kf9-la-piovra-2-tv-series-1986-episode-2-eng-sub.html
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Othello (Film 1955-ENG SUB)
Othello (Russian: Отелло, romanized: Otello) is a 1955 Soviet romantic drama film, written and directed by Sergei Yutkevich, based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare. Cinematography by Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis and music by Aram Khachaturian. Audio in Russian with English subtitles.
The film was shot in Crimea. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, where Yutkevich received the Best Director Award.
Cast & Characters:
Sergei Bondarchuk as Othello
Andrei Popov as Iago
Irina Skobtseva as Desdemona
Vladimir Soshalsky as Cassio
Yevgeny Vesnik as Roderigo
Antonina Maksimova as Emilia
Yevgeny Teterin as Brabantio
Mikhail Troyanovsky as Duke of Venice
Aleksei Kelberer as Montano
Nikolai Briling as Lodovico
Leila Ashrafova as Bianca
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Danton (Film 1983-ENG SUB)
Danton is a 1983 French-Polish film depicting the last weeks of Georges Danton, one of the leaders of the French Revolution. It is an adaptation of the 1929 play The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska. Audio in French with English subtitles.
Danton takes place in the spring of 1794, almost five years after the fall of the Bastille and immediately following a period when the revolutionary government, facing internal enemies, conspirators, and the advance of foreign armies on French territory, created the Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal to repress its enemies and raise additional military forces. Robespierre and Danton became the Revolution’s leading figures, and huge numbers of suspects were arrested and executed, including Marie Antoinette and the liberal-thinking Duc d’Orléans, during what became known as the Reign of Terror.
But the Revolution began to turn on itself, with Robespierre gradually gaining ascendancy over Danton and establishing dictatorial control through the tribunal and the committee. Robespierre believed that “terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible,” while Danton and his faction gradually turned against the Terror and the dictatorship. Soon after the committee had eliminated the extremists under Jacques-René Hébert (an atheist and proponent of the working class), it turned on Danton and his faction, the Indulgents.
The film barely touches on these historical facts, however, except for Danton’s execution, focusing instead on the conflict between Robespierre and Danton.
The film stars Gérard Depardieu in the title role, with Wojciech Pszoniak as Maximilien Robespierre, and Patrice Chéreau as Camille Desmoulins. It was directed by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda and was an international co-production between companies in France, Poland and West Germany. All supporters of Danton (with the exception of Bourdon, who would later betray him) are played by French actors, while Robespierre's allies are played by Poles.
Principal Cast & Characters:
Gérard Depardieu as Georges Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak as Maximilien Robespierre
Patrice Chéreau as Camille Desmoulins
Bogusław Linda as Louis de Saint-Just
Angela Winkler as Lucile Desmoulins
Emmanuelle Debever as Louison Danton
Andrzej Seweryn as François Louis Bourdon
Serge Merlin as Pierre Philippeaux
Roland Blanche as Jean-François Delacroix
Jacques Villeret as François Joseph Westermann
Anne Alvaro as Éléonore Duplay
Roger Planchon as Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville
Franciszek Starowieyski as Jacques-Louis David
Alain Macé as François Héron
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Emma (TV Series 1972 - Episode 1)
Emma is a six-part TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma by BBC Television that was broadcast in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister. Audio in English with English subtitles (Click on CC).
This dramatisation brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's novel Emma, recreating the female character of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."
Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she finds that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. Often insensitive, well-meaning and incorrigible, having engineered the marriage of her governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, she now turns her attention towards making a match for the local vicar Mr Elton and her new protégée Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement but sometimes with real anger. Alongside, the lives of other characters proceed in ways not always understood by Emma, and she has many lessons to learn before the end of the story.
Episode 1: Emma Woodhouse has just attended the marriage of a dear friend and now fears that her own life will become boring & dull.
Cast & Characters:
Doran Godwin – Emma Woodhouse
John Carson – George Knightley
Donald Eccles – Mr Woodhouse
Constance Chapman – Miss Bates
Robert East – Frank Churchill
Ania Marson – Jane Fairfax
Ellen Dryden – Mrs Weston
Raymond Adamson – Mr. Weston
Fiona Walker – Mrs Elton
Timothy Peters – Mr Elton
Debbie Bowen – Harriet Smith
John Alkin – Robert Martin
Mary Holder – Mrs Bates
Vivienne Moore – Williams
Amber Thomas – Patty
Hilda Fenemore – Mrs Cole
Norman Atkyns – Shop Assistant
Meg Gleed – Isabella Knightley
John Kelland – John Knightley
Belinda Tighe, Yves Tighe, Arran Tighe, Emma Horton – The Knightley Children
Mollie Sugden – Mrs Goddard
Lala Lloyd – Mrs Ford
Marian Tanner – Betty Bickerton
Sam Williams – Gypsy Boy
Tom McCall, David Butt, Christopher Green – Musicians
Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v4ufnjk-emma-tv-series-1972-episode-2.html
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