Cast and Crew: Georgina Rich

With the enchanting narrative voice of Helena Bonham Carter, a new exciting cinema production celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance. It will explore the rivalry among the most important Venetian artists of the 16th centu...ry: Tintoretto, Titian and Veronese in Venice. We'll discover Venice through Tintoretto's life and canvases. As the narrative unfolds we'll begin to understand how the plague deeply affected the city and the Venetian art.
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The greatest prison break in history also became Americas most infamous cold case. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility established in San Francisco Bay in 1934 and designed to house some of the countrys most notorious criminals, quickly gained a reputation ...as the most feared prison in America, considered to be inescapable. But on June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates Frank Morris, and brothers John and Clarence Anglin succeeded in breaking out of The Rock, sparking a manhunt on a scale never before witnessed. Despite the vast resources poured into the hunt by the FBI, United States Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies, the three men were never found, presumed to have drowned. This revealing special from HISTORY follows the nephews of the escaped Anglin brothers along with retired US Marshal Art Roderick as they search for answers to their familys very public mystery, and also explores a groundbreaking new lead that could change the course of history. Did the Anglin brothers pull off the most daring escape in American history, and survive?
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It's 1981, the start of a new decade and Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin begin a new life in London. Strangers at first, these young gay lads, and their best friend Jill, find themselves thrown together, and soon share each other's adventures. But a new virus is on the rise, and soon t...heir lives will be tested in ways they never imagined. As the decade passes, and they grow up in the shadow of AIDS, they're determined to live and love more fiercely than ever.
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In 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever. In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop ...an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
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This comprehensive collection of Frank Herberts Dune Chronicles begins with the landmark science fiction epic DUNE, a stunningly realised four-and-a-half hour miniseries produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, and continue with the spectacular follow up CHILDREN OF DUNE, which combines t...he second and third books from the series. Featuring a stellar cast worthy of such an epic saga, these award-winning productions are landmark in their vision and scope and remain two of the highest rating sci-fi programs in history. DUNE - Oscar-winner (R)William Hurt stars as Duke Leto Atreides, charged to rule the desolate planet Arrakis, the universes only source of Melange, a spice that enhances mental performance and makes interstellar travel possible. But soon Leto's bitter enemy, the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Ian McNeice, Rome), a former ruler, wins back Arrakis and hands power over to his brutal nephew Rabban. When the Atreides family escape to the inhospitable desert with the help of the Fremen a race of displaced desert nomads the revitalising power of Melange enables Paul (Alec Newman, Frankenstein), the Dukes son, to organise the oppressed Fremen and wage war on the Empire. CHILDREN OF DUNE - The future of humanity is left in doubt as the twins of Paul Atreides become embroiled in the turbulent political landscape of Arrakis. Born with special abilities and superhuman prescience that not only empowers them but place them in considerable jeopardy amongst their kind Leto (James McAvoy, Atonement) and Ghanima (Jessica Brooks, Supernova) continue the fight against the malevolent forces of Baron Harkonnen. With the looming threat of civil war amongst the Fremen and Princess Wensicias (Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking) own devious plot to assassinate the Atreides heirs, their survival is paramount to ensure the future of the universe for generations to come.
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