Movies: Douglas Hurd

  • 2011
    Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

    Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel (2011)

    Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

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    Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which Britain changed for ever. For ten years they faced each other in the House of Commons, and swapped in and ...

    Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel
  • 2007
    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister (2007)

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

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    Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the ex-PMs' club for a hundred years. The film reveals who left office bankrupt, who did TV commercials fo...

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
  • 1998
    How to Be Foreign Secretary

    How to Be Foreign Secretary (1998)

    How to Be Foreign Secretary

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    Michael Cockerell talks to all of the surviving people to hold the post of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs including the current incumbent, and invites the viewer to imagine their life in the position....

    How to Be Foreign Secretary
  • 2001
    Cabinet Confidential

    Cabinet Confidential (2001)

    Cabinet Confidential

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    A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through cand...

    Cabinet Confidential
  • 2006
    The Summer of Rave, 1989

    The Summer of Rave, 1989 (2006)

    The Summer of Rave, 1989

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    In the final days of the yuppie decade, the summer of ’89 saw a new type of youth rebellion rip through the cultural landscape, with thousands of young people dancing at illegal Acid House parties in fields and aircraft hangars around the M25. Set ag...

    The Summer of Rave, 1989
  • 1996
    How to Be Prime Minister

    How to Be Prime Minister (1996)

    How to Be Prime Minister

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    It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation ...

    How to Be Prime Minister