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- Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities during the 1870s.
- A young British girl travels to Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
- A comedy that follows three Chicago EMTs who despite their narcissistic and self-destructive personalities are uniquely qualified to save lives.
- The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
- An alternate ending to 'The Girl Next Door'.
- An insight into the lives of three paramedics, who must deal with the stress and tribulations of the job as well as their personal lives.
- A down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.
- British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.
- A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
- Political drama series about a marriage between two politicians, and what happens when the wife's career starts to overshadow her husband's.
- In this two-part Channel 4 drama, two British-born Muslim siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11.
- In 2010, the International Criminal Court puts Tony Blair on trial for war crimes.
- A comedy about a secretary for the deputy prime minister that not only writes his diary, but also engages in some drama to record.
- TV Series
- In 2005 gap year student Erin and her mother are clearing out the belongings of Erin's dying grandfather Len when Erin discovers his diary. Having accompanied Jewish friend Eliza to Israel Erin begins to read it,starting with the horrifying liberation of Belsen,which gives Len empathy with the Jews. A professional soldier he is involved in the dispute in Palestine between the liberated Jews seeking their promised land and resentful Arabs.He falls for a Jewish girl,Clara,and reluctantly agrees to spy on her father Leo,a suspected Jewish dissident. His loyalties are torn when he sees comrades massacred in an ambush by insurgents. Erin finds Eliza's family also have divided loyalties,her brother Paul having Palestinian sympathies. He takes her to a cafe where a suicide bomber strikes.
- Erin and Paul survive the blast,Paul's parents commenting on the irony of his falling victim to the Palestinians,whose cause he supports. His great-grandfather was one of the bombers of the King David Hotel,in which Len is injured.Len suspects involvement by Clara,who tried to prevent him from going to the hotel but she denies it. As the British begin Operation Bulldog,to flush out terrorists in Tel Aviv,Len is dismayed by the brutality shown to the locals. He also steps in to prevent Mohammed,the Arab who provides the company with tea,from being bullied and befriends Mohammed's family,who resent the Jewish settlers. He has his photo taken with them and Erin finds it,setting out to trace any surviving members. Len ends up in hospital after gunmen attack him and his colleagues.
- Len survives the attack and is visited in hospital by Mohammed,to whose son he teaches Maths whilst recuperating. He is asked to persuade convicted terrorist Avram Klein to appeal against his execution to buy time as the army fears reprisals if he is hung. Len visits him and Klein warns him there is a spy in the British camp. After Clara is tarred and feathered for collaborating with the British Len and two colleagues are captured by the Jews who want Len to join them. He refuses and is released but his friends are murdered since Klein is hanged. Erin gets close to Paul's friend Omar but the Meyers disapprove of her bringing him home. This induces her epilepsy and she notes that Len also suffered from fits. She travels to Hebron to see Mohammed's house but walks straight into conflict and is arrested.
- Erin is arrested by Israeli soldiers but freed after Paul intervenes. They stay overnight in the army camp,which is shelled by Palestinians and next day, having told Paul about the diary and how she wants to locate Mohammed's family out of respect to Len,she learns that they have moved into the war zone of Gaza. She gets Omar to drive her there,ending up in the house of the cafe bomber,to which Israeli soldiers,including Eliza,come with the intention of blowing it up.Erin,echoing her grandfather's courage,chooses to stay to comfort the little girl of the house and meets an elderly lady,Jawda,who is Mohammed's daughter. In 1947 the state of Israel is officially recognized and the British prepare to withdraw.Len is horrified to witness the massacre of an Arab village by Jews,including Clara,who nonetheless claims to still love him and does his best to take Mohammed and his children to the docks and safety as the exodus of Arabs from Tel Aviv begins. However the family members are separated and Mohammed's son Hassan killed. As he dies he gives Len a house key to give to his father but Len is arrested for deserting his post to help the Arabs and never gets to see Mohammed again. Erin now has that key and gives it to Jawda before going back to England,Paul commending her for her bravery.On her return home she tells the dying Len that she has returned the key to the family. He seems to understand.
- Stuart,Ashley and Rachid are three randy,maverick paramedics. After Stuart attempts open heart massage to save the female victim of a road traffic accident the trio are sent to see therapist Kirsty Shelmerdine,as sufferers of post traumatic stress. She tells them they will be subject to the classic syndrome of Up,Horny,Down where elation is followed by sexual desire,the satisfaction of which will lead to depression. Whilst Rachid has afternoon delight with a lady barrister and gay Ashley has a bondage session with a black busker Stuart fails to get his policewoman friend Maxine in bed. As a result he is the only one of the three boys not to suffer from depression,which makes him ideal for talking a potential suicide down from a bridge. His day ends on a down note however and he returns to Maxine to apologise for his actions.
- When Rachid starts sulking after the others have criticised his incompetence, controller Stella threatens to split the team,resulting in a leadership contest between Stuart and Rachid to be King of the Jungle,though it is pretty much decided when Rachid prangs the ambulance. Maxine experiments on Derek,her Internet date,to assess her sensual potential with disastrous results but gets chatted up by fireman Craig.
- After all the emergency services are called out to a couple stuck in a car during illegal sex Stuart notes Maxine's closeness to Craig but,after a seminar on stress by Kirsty,the other boys point out that Stuart is jealous and this is increasing his own stress level. When Craig admits to Stuart he feels the relationship is doomed Stuart persuades Maxine that Craig is the right man for her and then learns that Craig is indeed falling for her more and more. This stresses him out even more and he seeks platonic relief with Ashley.