Ridley Scott

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Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962. At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film. He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick. At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives! In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London. In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.  

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1937-11-30
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Directing
  • star Popularity: 40.6
  • info Birth Place South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
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Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard

2007-12-03

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Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film

2007-12-03

8.7

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

2022-08-12

8

The Making of the Last Duel

2021-11-29

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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

2007-12-03

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The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth

2007-12-03

8.5

50 Films to See Before You Die

2006-07-22

6.2

Bergmans video

2012-08-22

8.2

The Beast Within: Making Alien

2003-12-02

6.6

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

2005-09-13

7.9

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

2007-12-18

5.7

The Real Robin Hood

2010-05-11

6.9

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

2012-10-11

7.1

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

2005-06-07

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Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'

2002-05-21

6.5

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023-06-02

7.2

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

2000-07-15

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Murder by Numbers

2004-03-16

6

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

2001-04-01

5.4

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

2017-11-12

7.9

Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey

2003-02-04

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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

2005-03-01

6

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

2015-03-17

6.7

The Alien Legacy

1999-06-01

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A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema

1986-01-01

6.6

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

2015-08-07

6.4

The Alien Saga

2002-11-13

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Black Rain: Making The Film

2006-10-10

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Giger's Alien

1979-05-25

5.7

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

1996-11-17

5

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

2014-02-11

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Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous

2017-07-30

6.6

Trespassing Bergman

2013-08-28

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The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

2018-03-02

6.4

Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us

2005-07-05

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Sword-and-Sandal

2019-04-14

6

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

2016-06-07

7.6

Trumbull Land

2018-10-15

7.1

One of the Missing

1968-12-02

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Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport

2000-11-21

6

Hollywood Halloween

1997-01-01

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Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

2002-12-03

6.3

Memory: The Origins of Alien

2019-01-24

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The Path to Redemption

2006-01-01

6.6

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

2001-08-21

10

Kreka: Dreamcatcher

2021-05-16

6.8

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

2021-05-27

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The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

2002-06-02

8

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

2023-02-01

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The Making of Gladiator II

2024-11-18

5.1

The Directors

1999-01-01

3.5

The Hollywood Greats

1977-08-04

7.7

Prophets of Science Fiction

2011-11-09

6.8

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

2018-04-29

5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015-08-02

3.5

Kulturzeit

1995-10-02

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Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

2023-09-22

movie_edit Directing

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Blade Runner

1982-06-25

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Gladiator

2000-05-04

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Alien

1979-05-25

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1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992-10-09

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1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992-10-09

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Kingdom of Heaven

2005-05-03

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Kingdom of Heaven

2005-05-03

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Thelma & Louise

1991-05-24

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Thelma & Louise

1991-05-24

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Black Hawk Down

2001-12-28

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Black Hawk Down

2001-12-28

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Black Rain

1989-09-22

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G.I. Jane

1997-08-19

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G.I. Jane

1997-08-19

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White Squall

1996-02-02

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White Squall

1996-02-02

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007-09-20

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American Gangster

2007-11-02

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American Gangster

2007-11-02

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Robin Hood

2010-05-12

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Robin Hood

2010-05-12

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Someone to Watch Over Me

1987-10-09

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Matchstick Men

2003-09-12

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In Her Shoes

2005-10-07

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Legend

1985-08-28

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Body of Lies

2008-10-09

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Body of Lies

2008-10-09

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A Good Year

2006-09-09

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A Good Year

2006-09-09

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Hannibal

2001-02-08

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Hannibal

2001-02-08

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The Donut King

2020-08-24

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Outside

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Boy and Bicycle

1965-01-01

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RKO 281

2000-04-07

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The Duellists

1977-08-31

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Halo: Nightfall

2014-02-05

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Prometheus

2012-05-30

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Prometheus

2012-05-30

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The Grey

2012-01-26

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Choose or Die

2022-04-15

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The East

2013-05-31

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Stoker

2013-02-28

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The Counselor

2013-10-25

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Boy and Bicycle

1965-01-01

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Boy and Bicycle

1965-01-01

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Alien: Covenant

2017-05-09

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Britain in a Day

2012-06-10

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

2014-12-03

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Child 44

2015-03-15

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Out of the Furnace

2013-11-09

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The A-Team

2010-06-09

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Killing Kennedy

2013-11-10

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The Polar Bears

2012-12-31

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The Counselor

2013-10-25

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

2014-12-03

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Newness

2017-11-03

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Kipchoge: The Last Milestone

2021-07-20

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Tristan & Isolde

2006-04-07

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Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani

2014-09-02

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The Martian

2015-09-30

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Where the Money Is

2000-04-14

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Boston Strangler

2023-03-16

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Concussion

2015-11-12

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Le court des grands

2005-11-30

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Life in a Day

2011-01-27

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Mind MGMT

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The Martian

2015-09-30

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First Ascent

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American Woman

2018-06-07

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Orpheus

2006-01-01

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Killing Lincoln

2013-02-16

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A Haunting in Venice

2023-09-13

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Zero

2015-09-03

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War Party

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Cinema16: British Short Films

2003-05-05

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Bomb

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Bomb

0

The Chronology of Water

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Matchstick Men

2003-09-12

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Freewalkers

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Freewalkers

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Thunder Perfect Mind

2005-02-13

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Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs

2015-03-11

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Gladiator

2000-05-04

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Cracks

2009-12-04

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A Sacrifice

2024-06-28

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Alien: Covenant

2017-05-09

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Morgan

2016-09-01

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Equals

2015-07-15

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India In a Day

2016-09-09

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Children of the Jungle

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Springsteen & I

2013-07-22

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Monkey Trouble

1994-03-18

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You Should Be Dancing

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Vicious

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Behold

2023-02-06

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Cyrus

2010-06-18

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All the Money in the World

2017-12-21

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All the Money in the World

2017-12-21

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Welcome to the Rileys

2010-10-29

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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper

2017-02-22

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Alien: Romulus

2024-08-13

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Blade Runner 2049

2017-10-04

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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing

2017-04-26

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Echo Valley

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Murder on the Orient Express

2017-11-03

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Loom

2012-08-30

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2036: Nexus Dawn

2017-08-30

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2036: Nexus Dawn

2017-08-30

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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter

2017-03-10

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Phoenix Forgotten

2017-04-21

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Clay Pigeons

1998-09-25

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All the Invisible Children

2005-09-01

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Robert

1967-08-02

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)

2007-09-25

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Into the Storm

2009-05-31

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Mindhorn

2016-10-09

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Zoe

2018-07-19

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The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023

2012-10-09

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Japan in a Day

2012-11-03

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The King of Ads

1991-11-01

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The King of Ads, Part 2

1993-01-01

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Ghost Recon: Alpha

2012-05-03

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Tell-Tale

2009-04-24

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The Gathering Storm

2002-04-22

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Trap House

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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

2017-09-28

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Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

2017-04-19

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Get Santa

2014-12-05

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Gladiator II

2024-11-13

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Boy and Bicycle

1965-01-01

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The Real Robin Hood

2010-05-11

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Thlípsi

2018-12-28

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The Duellists

1977-08-31

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The Journey

2019-02-03

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The Aftermath

2019-03-01

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The Last Duel

2021-10-13

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The Last Duel

2021-10-13

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Gladiator II

2024-11-13

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Jungleland

2020-11-06

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Our Friend

2019-09-04

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Earthquake Bird

2019-11-01

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Someone to Watch Over Me

1987-10-09

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House of Gucci

2021-11-24

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House of Gucci

2021-11-24

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FX's A Christmas Carol

2019-12-19

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Welcome to the Punch

2013-03-15

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Naked Singularity

2021-08-06

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Hostage

2002-10-24

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Ticker

2002-11-12

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Beat the Devil

2002-11-22

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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing

2017-04-26

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Switzerlanders

2020-05-21

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Life in a Day 2020

2021-02-02

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Death on the Nile

2022-02-09

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The Last Debate

2000-11-05

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Napoleon

2023-11-22

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Napoleon

2023-11-22

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The Last Vermeer

2019-09-11

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The Browning Version

1994-06-08

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Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

2002-12-03

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Gladiator III

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Gladiator III

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Embraced by the Light

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The Dogs Stars

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Adam Adamant Lives!

1966-06-23

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Numb3rs

2005-01-23

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The Good Wife

2009-09-22

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Z-Cars

1962-01-02

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The Pillars of the Earth

2010-07-23

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The Andromeda Strain

2008-05-26

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965-10-07

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AFP: American Fighter Pilot

2002-03-29

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Coma

2012-09-03

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The Man in the High Castle

2015-01-15

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The Good Fight

2017-02-19

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Strange Angel

2018-06-14

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The Company

2007-08-05

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The Passage

2019-01-14

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Klondike

2014-01-20

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World Without End

2012-09-04

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The Terror

2018-03-26

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Raised by Wolves

2020-09-03

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Raised by Wolves

2020-09-03

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Jean-Claude Van Johnson

2016-08-19

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The Hot Zone

2019-05-27

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Taboo

2017-01-07

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Crimes of the Century

2013-06-23

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Kaleidoscope

2023-01-01

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Blade Runner 2099

0

Alien: Earth

0

Great Expectations

2023-03-26

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Dope Thief

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Still Missing Morgan

2023-02-16

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Prime Target

2025-01-22

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A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii