
May 19, 1915 · 111 years old
Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was an English actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool Playhouse, and the Westminster Theatre. Her first stage appearance was on 17 October 1935, a…

In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behavior, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg in pursuit of wealth and prestige. He soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism.

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.