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SUBSCRIBE 55 Days at Peking (1963) - Full length movie 55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion, which took place in China from 1898 to 1900. It is based on the book by Noel Gerson and produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer and Ben Barzman. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, with supporting roles by Flora Robson, John Ireland, Leo...

Christmas TV guide: 20 of the best films to watch BBC One, 4.15pm A rare instant classic, this take on Michael Bond’s stories could not brim more fully with good nature and bristly cheer. Hugh Grant’s villainous Phoenix Buchanan is more charming than most heroes. “Why are you in it so much?” Grant’s unappreciative children apparently said to him recently. “I make them like it now. They have to watch it every night and tell me how good I am, otherwise they don’t get fed.” One of the best sequels. Casablanca RTÉ One, 2.15am Why not? You’ve seen it 1,000 times, but the most ...

Advertisement Multimillion-dollar renovations to the heritage-listed home of the National Art School will begin in the new year, repairing the 200-year-old hand-hewn sandstone walls, wings, and walkways of the former Darlinghurst Gaol. The $18 million facelift was announced by the Minister for Arts Don Harwin at the end of year graduate students' award ceremony on Friday night and welcomed by the art school as an "uplifting way" to end a difficult year. Set for renovation: The historic walls of the former Darlinghurst Gaol. The grant comes two months after the 45-year lease on the site and it...

Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer 10 December 2020 Hazel de Berg interviewing physicist Professor Harry Messel, 1972,nla.cat-vn4759844 Largely regarded as Australia’s first oral historian, Hazel de Berg recorded interviews with 1,290 Australians who were born between 1865 and 1953. Without her work, many of these people would never have their voices recorded for us to listen to today.   Hazel interviewed very widely but artists were particularly well-represented – she recorded around 250 painters and sculptors. But s...

Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer Hazel de Berg - Australian Oral History Pioneer 10 December 2020 Hazel de Berg interviewing physicist Professor Harry Messel, 1972,nla.cat-vn4759844 Largely regarded as Australia’s first oral historian, Hazel de Berg recorded interviews with 1,290 Australians who were born between 1865 and 1953. Without her work, many of these people would never have their voices recorded for us to listen to today.   Hazel interviewed very widely but artists were particularly well-represented – she recorded around 250 painters and sculptors. But s...