Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris (October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and as King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot, as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical.
He played an English aristocrat captured by the Sioux in A Man Called Horse (1970), Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in Jim Sheridan's The Field (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992), Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) as Abbé Faria, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), the latter of which was his final film role. Harris had a number-one singing hit in Australia, Jamaica and Canada, and a top-ten hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park". In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.261 |
| Birthday | 1930-10-01 |
| Place of Birth | Limerick City, Munster, Ireland |
| Also Known As | Richard St. John Harris, |
1992
Unforgiven
7.907/4914
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one las...
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Unforgiven
2000
Gladiator
8.225/20769
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred....
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Gladiator
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.898/29436
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7.702/23469
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1970
Bloomfield
6.111/9
An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.
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Bloomfield
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
7.265/281
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in...
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
1993
Abraham
7.04/50
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...
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Abraham
1961
The Guns of Navarone
7.306/859
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range fiel...
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The Guns of Navarone
1976
Robin and Marian
6.303/264
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Robin and Marian
1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.051/341
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.669/2001
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1978
The Wild Geese
6.83/280
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s...
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The Wild Geese
1990
The Field
6.981/104
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...
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The Field
1970
Cromwell
6.582/98
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...
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Cromwell
1976
The Cassandra Crossing
6.241/228
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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The Cassandra Crossing
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
4.093/108
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters...
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Tarzan the Ape Man
1964
Red Desert
7.326/503
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her h...
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Red Desert
1977
Orca
6.191/460
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherma...
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Orca
1992
Patriot Games
6.68/1802
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
6.768/28
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
1993
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
6.309/55
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet...
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse
5.733/58
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of...
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The Return of a Man Called Horse
1965
Major Dundee
6.68/175
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...
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Major Dundee
1974
Juggernaut
6.232/136
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Ins...
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Juggernaut
1970
The Molly Maguires
6.317/82
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company t...
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The Molly Maguires
1970
A Man Called Horse
6.441/228
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinctio...
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A Man Called Horse
1966
Hawaii
6.317/52
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii,...
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Hawaii
1967
Caprice
5.875/36
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.
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Caprice
1965
The Heroes of Telemark
6.902/178
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy w...
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The Heroes of Telemark
1977
Gulliver's Travels
5.63/23
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly...
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Gulliver's Travels
1997
This Is the Sea
6/8
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...
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This Is the Sea
1971
Man in the Wilderness
6.253/99
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to be...
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Man in the Wilderness
1977
Golden Rendezvous
5.4/10
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacke...
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Golden Rendezvous
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
6.852/27
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the r...
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
1963
This Sporting Life
7/120
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by l...
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This Sporting Life
2001
My Kingdom
5.5/8
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and powe...
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My Kingdom
1967
Camelot
6.217/76
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and d...
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Camelot
1989
Mack the Knife
6.643/7
In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly disapproves so her father, 'the king...
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Mack the Knife
1999
Grizzly Falls
5.917/36
When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full of breathtaking excitement, harrowing danger...
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Grizzly Falls
1998
The Barber of Siberia
7.029/156
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...
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The Barber of Siberia
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
5.118/17
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's e...
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99 and 44/100% Dead
1965
The Three Faces
5.714/7
Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second...
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The Three Faces
2004
The Apocalypse
5.485/33
The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of John...
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The Apocalypse
1976
Echoes of a Summer
5.389/9
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.
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Echoes of a Summer
2000
Hellraisers
0/0
Documentary about notorious British and Irish wildmen Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and Keith Moon and their excesses and exploits.
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Hellraisers
1988
Strike Commando 2
4.717/23
A commando rescues his squad leader from heroin smugglers in Burma.
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Strike Commando 2
1983
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
5.813/24
Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.
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Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1996
Trojan Eddie
5.333/9
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...
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Trojan Eddie
1981
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
5/6
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to finan...
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1994
Silent Tongue
4.7/20
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bur...
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Silent Tongue
1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
6.302/43
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a resu...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1999
To Walk with Lions
5.789/19
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Liv...
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To Walk with Lions
1997
The Hunchback
5.894/47
Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmera...
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The Hunchback
1973
The Deadly Trackers
5.762/21
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against ev...
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The Deadly Trackers
1960
A Terrible Beauty
5.357/7
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can h...
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A Terrible Beauty
1990
King of the Wind
7/6
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
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King of the Wind
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
7.7/20
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
1985
Martin's Day
6.4/10
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good littl...
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Martin's Day
1995
The Great Kandinsky
7.5/2
The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff and inmates of his retirement home.
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The Great Kandinsky
1979
Game for Vultures
5.167/6
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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Game for Vultures
1970
Return of the Islander
5.3/11
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building sites so that he can earn money to support his family...
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Return of the Islander
1971
The Snow Goose
7.333/9
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst...
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The Snow Goose
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
6.317/257
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
1982
Camelot
8.5/2
Shot live from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this presentation of the 1980 Broadway revival of the beloved Lerner & Loewe classic follow...
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Camelot
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
6.538/26
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes...
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Shake Hands with the Devil
1982
Highpoint
5.143/7
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets ca...
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Highpoint
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
6.5/6
Jon Stewart hosts the Sesame Street Muppets' 30 year celebration, but Elmo steps in when things go awry.
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Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1979
Ravagers
4.5/14
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their w...
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Ravagers
2001
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
8/4
"This is a kid who just said it. I'm the greatest - and he said it with poetry. And I don't mean just the poems that he wrote but with the poetic ener...
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Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
1995
Savage Hearts
4.333/3
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head...
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Savage Hearts
2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
8/1
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of the romantic King, with his beautiful wife Guinevere...
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Arthur: King of the Britons
1988
Maigret
8/3
Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a...
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Maigret
1959
Alive and Kicking
7.071/7
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an imp...
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Alive and Kicking
1979
The Last Word
6/2
When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police office...
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The Last Word
2001
The Pearl
4.75/8
A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future -- if he can fend off his own greed and the people tryi...
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The Pearl
2003
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
0/0
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Man...
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
1978
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
0/0
Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.
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Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
7.4/5
Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
7.471/17
An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Consisting of: Tale Of The Scribes: Story Development, The Heat Of Battle: Product...
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Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
1973
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
5.667/3
A musical special promoting the then-upcoming release of the 1973 musical version of "Lost Horizon".
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Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
2022
Exterior Day
0/0
Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno giorno is an experimental love letter to Italian cine...
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Exterior Day
2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
0/0
Series of documentary pods chronicling every aspect of the production of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Released as an extra on the 2005 extended version B...
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods
1988
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
6.5/2
Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leade...
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