It's a wonderful life.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975

Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

Writing credits: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle

King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.

Voters in Galicia go to the polls in regional elections

19 October 2012 

Voters in the Spanish region of Galicia go to the polls this weekend - amid a growing expectation that Spain will soon ask for a rescue deal from the Eurozone.

The election is a key test for the ruling centre-right Popular Party which has brought in a raft of austerity measures.

The Spanish Government was keen to avoid asking for a bailout before the elections.

Tom Burridge reports from Galicia

"SIR! NO SIR!"

2005

Director: David Zeiger

Writer:  David Zeiger

Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner and Joe Bangert

This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.

This is England.

Director: Shane Meadows

Writer: Shane Meadows

Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham and Jo Hartley|See full cast and crew

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. 

The wicker man

Director:  Robin Hardy

Writer:  Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

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From Spain to UK

Atópome con esta curiosa páxina web: información para aprender inglés, ofertas de traballo en Inglaterra que requiren dominio do castelán, mapas e información xeral sobre a vida en Inglaterra...

Aquí vos queda, se vos é útil alégrome. 

The Ulster trouble

The BBC Peter Taylor Documentary on the Ulster. 

This series includes a history of the IRA and Sinn Fein over the past 30 years, an intimate account of the lives of loyalist paramilitaries and the role of the British armed forces in Northern Ireland.

Provos. Four parts with english subtitles. 

Loyalists. Three parts. 

Brits. Three parts. 

Almost famous

Director:  Cameron Crowe

Writer: Cameron Crowe

Stars: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand and Kate Hudson

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.