

In part, that’s because its portrait of high society during the Regency era is unapologetically escapist – and frequently steamy. Worldwide, Bridgertonhas found an audience of millions, far exceeding the numbers usually drawn to bonnets-and-breeches fiction. Streaming in the UK and US | two seasons available Leading the supporting cast, Adrien Brody excels as Arthur Miller (1915–2005), the playwright who was Monroe’s third husband. Ana De Armas leads the cast in a performance that eerily recalls one of Hollywood’s greatest stars without ever falling into pastiche. It’s by no means an easy watch, as writer and director Andrew Dominik (Chopper) unflinchingly catalogues the actor’s struggles with fame in a near-operatic fashion.

Streaming in the UK & US | feature-length drama availableīased on the critically acclaimed novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde charts the life of Norma Jeane Mortenson, better known as Marilyn Monroe (1926–62). This atmospheric drama charts Mikkelsen’s adventures and his friendship with his companion on the ice, rookie mariner Iver Iversen (Joe Cole). It would prove to be a brutal journey, one that culminated in being forced to spend a long winter in the wilds. This in turn would help to counter an American claim to part of the territory. His aim was to prove that Greenland was not, as some maintained, two islands separated by a body of water known as the Peary Channel.

In 1909, Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) set out on an expedition across Greenland.
