Added in February: Six Minutes To Midnight, The Last Emperor, Ali & Ava & more
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01/03/2024
We are delighted to share the inspiring titles added to the Beamafilm collection throughout February 2024 on Beamafilm. Our curated collection continues to grow, offering a diverse and compelling range of great films to cater to every taste. Stream from the new additions to our platform last month as you continue to enjoy thoughtful entertainment on Beamafilm.
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Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the...
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Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.
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Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
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A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
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This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
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May 5th 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birthday. He might be the most influential thinker of all time and his revolutionary ideas have changed the world, inspiring millions to be come politically active. Today, Marx’s beliefs aren’t forgotten. The film...
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What to do with works of art and cultural goods that have come to our days to preserve them and be able to leave them as inheritance to future generations?
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Featuring over 20 specialists, this documentary series explores who we are through the medium of art.
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This 6+ hour screenbook covers a translation in verse, by Laurence Binyon, of the great 14th century Italian poem "The Divine Comedy: Inferno".
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Drawing on archival and contemporary materials, this film presents a factual outline of Charles Dickens life, as well as the social and historical background to his writings. Best known for his novel, "A Christmas Carol", he wrote about social issues in novellas, poems,...
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This film explores the life, ideas, and work of the Chinese sage, known to the west as, Confucius.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick, covers the life and background of D. H. Lawrence, an English novelist and short-story writer.
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This film in the Famous Author series by Malcolm Hossick tries to uncover the astonishing life of Daniel Defoe who wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the earliest novels to achieve world wide success.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick covers the extraordinary life, success, and works of Edgar Allan Poe, an American short-story writer, poet, and critic, most famous for his mystery and macabre novels.
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This film follows the successful and industrious life and works of Emile Zola, a French novelist and journalist who was seen as a champion of democracy and the people, and exiled for the stance he took against the government with the Dreyfus affair.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the improbable life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the first memorable poets in American history. In the 19th century, Dickinson wrote short lyric poems in ballad form, in the town of Amherst, New England.
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This film traces the life and literary career of the famous American author, Ernest Hemingway. An American favourite, he won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1952 and 1954, respectively.
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This film covers the life and background of Eugene O’Neill, an Irish-American playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick covers the life, background, and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, famous for his brilliant novel, "The Great Gatsby".
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This film traces the unusual life and works of Franz Kafka, a German-speaking novelist and short story writer whose name became synonymous with the struggle of maintaining one’s identity.
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This film covers the life and background of Shaw, an Irish dramatist, critic, and Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1925.
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This film traces the life, remarkable achievements, and work of George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans, an English Victorian novelist well-known for developing the psychological analysis method we see in modern fiction.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the life and work of George Orwell, an English novelist and essayist whose works reflected his interests in politics and poverty.
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The film follows the life and works of American novelist, Melville, born in New York, USA, who wrote about his adventures at sea in his twenties, best-known for his novel, Moby Dick.
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This film covers the life, background, and works of James Joyce, an Irish novelist and poet whose works predominantly focused on the Irish struggles with social conformity.
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This film covers the life and works of Henry James, an American writer, whose writing style was predominantly realism, capturing his characters’ inner thoughts and feelings about the world.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick covers the life, background, and work of Jane Austen, a famous 19th century English novelist, most famous for her novels "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", and "Emma".
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This film covers the life, background, and works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, most well-known as a German poet, playwright, novelist, and scientist.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick covers the course of John Donne's work, including several of his delightful poems, and the struggles he had, to make his way.
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This film traces the brief life and delightful work of the English Romantic poet, John Keats.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick explores the eventful life and works of John Steinbeck, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature, and one of the most popular American writers of the 20th century.
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Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist and author, can be seen as the first hero of the struggle against English dominance. This film traces the fascinating life and works of this remarkable Irish author.
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This film traces the unusual life and works of Marcel Proust, a French novelist and literary critic, best known for his remarkable novel, “La Recheche de Temps Perdue”, or, “Rememberance of Things Past”.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick portrays the hectic and fascinating life of Mark Twain, an American writer and humorist who started as a river pilot, then gold prospector, before becoming a successful writer and producing a wide range of novels and essays.
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This film begins with the views, life, and topics enjoyed by Montaigne, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.
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This film explores the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer who focused on the Dark Romantic, or Gothic, genre of literature.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the early career, life, background, and works of Oscar Wilde, a brilliant comedy writer who experienced a tragic downfall after being put on trial for gross indecency, overshadowing the importance of his work.
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This film covers the life, background, and works of Shelley, an English Romantic poet known for the unusual incorporation of his stance on social politics in his literary work.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the life and work of 18th century Scottish poet, Robert Burns. From a simple farming background, he became the national poet of Scotland and incorporated Scottish history, folklore, and Scots dialect into his work.
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This film covers the life and works of Stevenson, a Scottish novelist and essayist born in Edinburgh who, despite suffering poor health throughout his life, was met with early success in his writing career.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick explores the life, influence, and work of Samuel Johnson, an English writer who compiled the first major English dictionary.
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This film follows the interesting life and works of Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet whose literary focus was sympathetic to the hardships of the working-class people.
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Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and dramatist, is best known for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Les Miserable”.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the fascinating life of the novelist Virginia Woolf, who began a publishing house with her husband in 1912 and printed her remarkable novels.
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This film traces the fascinating life and works of Voltaire, a French writer famous for his plays, novels, historical, and philosophical works that were tools of his liberal voice against the authorities.
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This film by Malcolm Hossick covers the life, background, and overview of works of the poet Walt Whitman, who was born in a small village in Long Island, 1819.
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This film covers the life and background of Walter Scott, a prolific and passionate Scottish historian and novelist, who saw an understanding of the past, as the key to getting along in the present.
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A film by Malcolm Hossick, exploring the life and work of William Blake. The son of a hosier with no formal education; he cultivated his passion for the arts through engraving, painting, and poetry.
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin. His father was a successful artist and from an early age, Yeats was determined to be, and was soon accepted as, a poet.
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Introduces the major themes of Faulkner's poems, plays, short stories, and novels.
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This film follows the life and works of the great English dramatist, William Shakespeare. His works reflect the impact of his classical education in the literary works of Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as his experience of country life.
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This film covers the life and background of William Wordsworth, one of the greatest poets of the Romantic Period.
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