Books published by Madman Films

Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4...-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and our planet.
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A drama series about the fight for political power- and about the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage. The central figure is the 40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg, who through her idealism and huge effort s...ecures her party a landslide victory and thus faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible. Privately, Birgitte leads a happy family life with her husband and two children. She is a woman with a burning commitment, a big heart and little time. Will she be able to be a successful and professional top politician and stay true to herself at the same time?
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TV Presenter Chris Tarrant travels around the world to ride some of the most extreme railways that wind their way through some of the harshest terrain on Earth. Eps: 1) CONQUERING THE ALPS: Chris crosses mountains, deserts, jungles and war-zones to discover how railways have been... central to to the history of 4 very different parts of the world. He begins with a journey across the Alps, starting in Vienna. 2) THE TRAIN IN SPAIN: Chris embarks upon a 1,000 mile journey across Spain discovering how the railways were involved in tensions over Gibraltar, the Civil War and WWII. But Spain has quietly become a world leader in train technology. 3) EXTREME NUCLEAR RAILWAY: A JOURNEY TOO FAR? Chris travels across Ukraine, taking in some of the country's 13,000 miles of railways. Along the way he takes in Kiev and Chernobyl, finishing by the banks of the Black Sea in Odessa. 4) THE REUNIFICATION EXPRESS: Chris embarks on a rail trip across Vietnam, exploring its French colonial history along the way, as he sets off along the Reunification Line from Ho Chi Minh in the south - to Hanoi in the north.
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David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) and Kelly Reilly (True Detective) star in an epic and cinematic new nine-part drama from award-winning writer Jez Butterworth (Spectre, Jerusalem). Sky's most ambitious drama ever, it's packed with action and emotion and is produced by Vertigo F...ilms (Bronson, Monsters) and Neal Street Productions (Penny Dreadful, Call the Midwife). When the Romans invade Britain in 43AD, Kerra (Reilly), daughter of the King of the Cantii, is forced to put her differences aside with arch-rival Queen Antedia (Wanamaker) to face their invaders. The Romans, led by General Aulus Plautius (Morrissey), are determined to succeed where Julius Caesar failed and conquer this mythical land at the far edge of the Roman Empire. Aulus is a strong and resilient leader, but harbours a deep secret that threatens his mission. As tribes and Druids unite to fight the Romans, Kerra is thrust into the most important role of her life as she spearheads the resistance against the might of the Roman army.
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On an isolated island, Uma wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess where calibrated treatments aim to resolve all of their physica...l and emotional shortcomings. The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents, but soon realises that lurking behind all this beauty is a sinister secretand in a race against the clock, she and her friends must escape Paradise Hills before it consumes them all.
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