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Wolf Hall [videorecording] / by Kosminsky, Peter,television director.; Straughan, Peter,screenwriter.; Pybus, Mark,television producer.; Rylance, Mark,actor.; Lewis, Damian,1971-actor.; Foy, Claire,1984-actor.; Hill, Bernard,1944-actor.; Lesser, Anton,actor.; Gatiss, Mark,actor.; Amalric, Mathieu,1965-actor.; Whalley, Joanne,1964-actor.; Pryce, Jonathan,actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Mantel, Hilary,1952-Wolf Hall.Videorecording.; Television adaptation of (work):Mantel, Hilary,1952-Bring up the bodies.Videorecording.; Company Pictures (Firm),production company.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,production company.; Altus Media,production company.; Prescience Media 1 LLP,production company.; BBC Two (Television station : London, England),broadcaster.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.;
Disc 1. Three card trick ; Entirely beloved -- Disc 2. Anna Regina ; The devil's spit -- Disc 3. Crows ; Master of Phantoms.Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Bernard Hill, Anton Lesser, Mark Gatiss, Mathieu Amalric, Joanne Whalley, Jonathan Pryce.Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king and country while dealing with deadly political intrigue, Henry VIII's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn, and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformation.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547; Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.;
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The last honest man : the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--and one senator's fight to save democracy / by Risen, James,author.; Risen, Tom,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it. Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community. The dark truths that Church exposed--from assassination plots by the CIA, to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia, to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBI--would shake the nation to its core, and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, some of which remain sensitive today, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen tells the gripping, untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power--and winning--in The Last Honest Man."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Church, Frank, 1924-1984.; Intelligence service; Political corruption;
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