Michael Palin
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"Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation--a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014"--
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La fascinante realidad del país más hermético del mundo.
En mayo de 2018, Michael Palin, estrella de los Monty Python, expresidente de la Real Sociedad Geográfica de Londres e intrépido trotamundos, pasó dos semanas en la República Popular Democrática de Corea, un país hermético sin cobertura ni internet donde el campo vive anclado en el pasado y en las ciudades abundan rascacielos brillantes y lujosas estaciones de tren.
En su Diario de...
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Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly--until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin's girlfriend and decides to modernize the friendly local office by firing dedicated but elderly employees and privatizing the business. Suddenly, gentle...
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Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons went their separate ways. Yet at the same time they were working on the now celebrated...
5) Erebus
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English
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• A major new work by one of the most loved and admired of travel writers
• Interest in the Franklin expedition will be heightened by a major AMC series called The Terror, airing in March 2018. The series is a fictional telling of the doomed expedition based on the Dan Simmons bestselling book of the same name. The Terror was the name of the Erebus' sister ship on the doomed voyage
• Draws on fresh research to bring to life one of the greatest...
6) The Truth
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English
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Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. A professional writer of some repute, he has reached the age of fifty-six with nothing resembling the success of his two great literary heroes, George Orwell and Albert Camus. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime-to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a widely respected and highly influential activist and humanitarian-he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search...
7) Jabberwocky
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English
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A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
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BBC Video
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[2005]
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English
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Filmed on location in the 2000 mile Himalayan mountain range through Afghanistan, India, Bhutan and the Bay of Bengal. Palin encounters extremes of weath and poverty, weather, as well as the Dalai Lana and a head hunting tribe, the Konyak.
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BBC Video
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[2008]
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English
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In Hemingway adventure, Michael Palin takes the viewer to locations where Hemingway lived, visited, and wrote about. In Great railway journeys, Palin travels from Londonderry to the western tip of Ireland, following the progression of his family's migration.
10) Sahara
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BBC Video
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2005.
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English
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In this exhausting journey, Michael will pass through the rock of Gibraltar to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and beyond. His route takes him across sand-seas, along treacherous rivers, through oases, and over mountain ranges.
11) New Europe
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BBC Video
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2008.
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English
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Travel into territory that was once forbidden - the new Europe previously shrouded behind the Iron Curtain. Now that the Iron Curtain has lifted and the Cold War is over, Michael can enjoy a new freedom to roam unhindered across an unexplored swathe of this continent. From Estonia in the north to Turkey in the south, where Europe reaches out to Asia across the Bosphorus, Michael's journey takes him through twenty countries, some Central European,...
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Universal Home Video
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[1998]
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English
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(PG-13). When ruthless media mogul Rod McCain acquires England's Marwood Zoo, he sends his sexy marketing executive and his lecherous son to whip the place into shape, but they discover Marwood's straitlaced director has already implemented his own harebrained scheme to boost attendance: from now on the zoo will do away with cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures."
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Monty Python's flying circus volume series 2
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The ground-up restoration has been produced from the best available materials, painstakingly restored, and includes just the right amount of lovely spam, wonderful spam. Previously edited sketches have been returned to their original length while filmed sequences and Terry Gilliam's animations have been newly scanned in High Definition, adding unimaginable depth and clarity to classic moments.
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Monty Python's flying circus volume series 3
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ground-up restoration has been produced from the best available materials, painstakingly restored, and includes just the right amount of lovely spam, wonderful spam. Previously edited sketches have been returned to their original length while filmed sequences and Terry Gilliam's animations have been newly scanned in High Definition, adding unimaginable depth and clarity to classic moments.
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Monty Python's flying circus volume series 1
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ground-up restoration has been produced from the best available materials, painstakingly restored, and includes just the right amount of lovely spam, wonderful spam. Previously edited sketches have been returned to their original length while filmed sequences and Terry Gilliam's animations have been newly scanned in High Definition, adding unimaginable depth and clarity to classic moments.
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Monty Python's flying circus volume series 4
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ground-up restoration has been produced from the best available materials, painstakingly restored, and includes just the right amount of lovely spam, wonderful spam. Previously edited sketches have been returned to their original length while filmed sequences and Terry Gilliam's animations have been newly scanned in High Definition, adding unimaginable depth and clarity to classic moments.
17) Brazil (NR)
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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
"Hailed for its groundbreaking visual effects and satirical story, Brazil is one of the most highly regarded films of all time and a bona fide cult classic. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry, a grey-suited government clerk who finds his life turned upside-down when he gets involved in...
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MGM Home Entertainment
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©1998
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English
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"Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George, not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer, Archie Leach."--Www. imdb. com.
20) Pole to pole
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Journey with Michael to Greenland, Kenya, South Africa, and Chile. Along the way, communism collapses, apartheid ends, and a civil war is sparked as Michael meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole.