![]() ![]() While the film covers everything through to the Live Aid Concert in 1984, the first half takes place in the 1970s. A unique movie with some trippy results, it’s surprisingly uplifting considering the troubled time in the singer’s life that it deals with.Ī more traditional biopic about Freddie Mercury, this 2018 movie won Best Actor for Rami Malek at the Oscars. The songs are inserted like a tradition jukebox musical ‘Rocketman’ is used to illustrate his suicide attempt, while ‘Yellow Brick Road’ accompanies Elton to rehab. Along the way, he suffers from physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his manager, John Reid ( Bodyguard star Richard Madden), and becomes addicted to pretty much everything. Starting out as a piano man for American blues singers, John becomes the most successful artist of the 1970s. ![]() Taron Egerton ( Kingsman) stars in this 2019 musical biopic about singer Elton John. The eighth season then gets off to an explosive start as Endeavour investigates a college bomb with possible links to recent IRA threats.Įndeavour is available to watch on Amazon Prime. Also touched upon are escalating racial tensions leading up to the 1970 General Election. Season 7’s three episodes are connected with an overarching plot involving a serial killer, a towpath, and Morse’s friend Ludo. ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel series entered a fresh decade with its seventh season. Inspector George Gently is available on DVD on Amazon. The final season brings closure to Season 1’s story line about the death of his wife, with a controversial ending for Martin Shaw’s beloved character. Inspector George Gently – Season 8 (1970)īringing the BBC’s crime drama series to an end, the eighth season is set in 1970.įacing retirement and discovering that the force has been using him on a case, Gently decides to take one last stand against corruption in the Met. Misbehaviour is available to watch on Amazon Prime. Look out for Lesley Manville ( World on Fire), Keeley Hawes ( The Durrells), Rhys Ifans ( Notting Hill) and Phyllis Logan ( Downton Abbey) too! Overseeing the pageant is Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear), who must come to terms with the changing times. As she seeks to claim more representation for black women, Sally Alexander (Keira Knightley) and Jo Robinson (Jessie Buckley) plan to disrupt the pageant in order to kickstart the Women’s Liberation Movement. Gugu Mbatha-Raw ( Belle) plays Jennifer Hosten, the first black contestant to represent Grenada. Here our guest writer Elizabeth Niedbala, creator of the blog Land of 1,000 Movies, has some recommendations of movies and TV series set in the 1970s!īased on real events, this heartwarming movie from 2020 dramatises the story of feminist activists who invaded the Miss World pageant in London in 1970. We continue our look back at the best British period dramas set in each decade of the 20th Century. ![]()
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