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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. She is also head of state of the Crown Dependencies.
Elizabeth was born in London, and educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne as George VI in 1936 on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, in which she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. On the death of her father in 1952, she became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and some realms became republics. Today, in addition to the first four aforementioned countries, Elizabeth is Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Actors: Jon Rekdal (actor), Nick Raio (actor), Karen Lynn Gorney (actress), Jerry Jaffe (actor), Jay McCarey (actor), Lou Irizarry (actor), Drummond Erskine (actor), Richard Kohn (actor), Mickey Sherman (actor), Andrea Sooch (actress), Oliver Blackburn (writer), Jonas Kellagher (producer), Michael Sevholt (producer), Erik Eger (producer), Erik Eger (actor),
Plot: Did Adolf Hitler survive WWII and live on under an assumed identity? Norwegian researcher Skule Antonsen sides with Spanish documentary filmmaker Idelfonso Elizalde to follow in the footsteps of Adolf Munchenhauser, a Hitler look alike captured by the Allied forces in Berlin 1945. When Munchenhauser is released from Camp Rebecca in 1946, a secret prison camp in the Nevada Desert, he decides to stay in the U.S. Skule digs into Munchenhausers life and hears a lot of stories, but none of them reveal his real identity. Is it possible that Adolf Munchenhuser really was Adolf Hitler? As Skule digs deeper for the truth it becomes clear that there are powerful forces that will do anything to stop him.
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, History,Actors: Claire Bloom (actress), Bob Weinstein (producer), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Timothy Spall (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Geoffrey Rush (producer), Guy Pearce (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Anthony Andrews (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Alexandre Desplat (composer), Harvey Weinstein (producer),
Plot: Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Keywords: 1930s, abdication, apostrophe-in-title, archbishop-of-canterbury, australian, biplane, britain, british-royal-family, bromance, brother-brother-relationshipActors: Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Robert Hardy (actor), Jeremy Child (actor), David Ryall (actor), Rebecca Eaton (producer), Dave Evans (miscellaneous crew), Eileen Atkins (actress), Alan Bates (actor), Paul Brooke (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Geoffrey Beevers (actor), James Wilby (actor), Simon Day (actor), Peter Eyre (actor), Terence Harvey (actor),
Plot: The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI. Now he expects to be, as constitutional monarch, little more then a figure head, but again faith has more in store for him: Nazi Germany proves such a formidable war challenger to the British Empire that the nearly desperate nation looks to its royal couple as comforting symbol of the unbroken spirit, a part they play with great success, while hosting chased monarchs and governments from continental Europe. After victory, life returns to normal, but pulmonary disease soon ends George's, leaving the throne to his still young firstborn, queen Elisabeth II.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, abdication, archbishop-of-canterbury, attack-on-pearl-harbor, bagpipes, british-royal-family, british-royalty, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smokingActors: Maggie Smith (actress), Paul T.T. Easter (actor), Ben Shockley (actor), Adrian Johnston (composer), Chris Gill (editor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Rebecca Eaton (producer), David Jason (actor), Phyllis Logan (actress), Jane Tranter (producer), Gareth Neame (producer), Ian McDiarmid (actor), Robert Hoyland (actor), Howard Burden (costume designer), Francis Magee (actor),
Plot: Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, british-army, british-monarchy, disappearance, epic-battle, execution, facial-disfigurement, gallipoli, king-george-vActors: Fred Fuchs (actor), Stan Derain (writer), Stan Derain (writer), Stan Derain (producer), Stan Derain (producer), Stan Derain (actor), Simon Bibiyan (producer), Moshe Bibiyan (producer), Larry Larson (producer), Aaron Kisner (miscellaneous crew), Michael Thompson (actor), Fredrik Cavali (actor), Fawn Reed (actress), Elizabeth Barris (actress), Bill Valentine (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy,Actors: Thom Hoffman (actor), Toby Jones (actor), Sandy Powell (costume designer), Tilda Swinton (actress), John Wood (actor), Roger Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Billy Zane (actor), Ned Sherrin (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Dudley Sutton (actor), Penny Eyles (miscellaneous crew), Heathcote Williams (actor), Heathcote Williams (actor), Quentin Crisp (actor), Viktor Stepanov (actor),
Plot: Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.
Keywords: 1600s, 1700s, 17th-century, 1800s, 18th-century, 19th-century, 20th-century, 400-year-old, aging, airplaneActors: Julie Harris (actress), Phyllis Calvert (actress), Jane Seymour (actress), Robert Hardy (actor), Olivia de Havilland (actress), Allyn Ferguson (composer), Anthony Andrews (actor), Tom Wilkinson (actor), John Horsley (actor), Margaretta Scott (actress), Rupert Frazer (actor), Charles Jarrott (director), Larry A. Thompson (producer), Peter Graves (actor), Vincent Marzello (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Clive Dunn (actor), Hugh M. Hefner (producer), Katia Tchenko (actress), Peter Sellers (actor), Peter Sellers (actor), Helen Mirren (actress), Simon Williams (actor), Sid Caesar (actor), Steve Franken (actor), Burt Kwouk (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Clément Harari (actor), David Tomlinson (actor), Peter Sellers (director), Richard Quine (director),
Plot: Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the "fake" queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, based-on-novel, caucasian-actor-playing-asian-character, character-name-in-title, china, chinese, cottage, detective, england, fbiActors: Carlyle Blackwell (actor), Lionel d'Aragon (actor), J. Stuart Blackton (director), Walter Tennyson (actor), A.B. Imeson (actor), Ursula Jeans (actress), Marian Constance Blackton (actress), Norma Whalley (actress), Violet Virginia Blackton (actress), William Luff (actor), Diana Manners (actress), Harry Pirie Gordon (writer), Maisie Fisher (actress), Hubert Carrer (actor),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Thomas A. Edison (producer), Alfred Clark (director), Robert Thomae (actor),
Plot: A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first 'camera tricks' to be used in a movie.
Keywords: axe, character-name-in-title, decapitation, execution, kneeling, queen, severed-head