O2TVSeries - Watch Movie The Pendle Witch Child (2011) Online
Storyline: The Pendle Witch Child (2011) Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours and, thanks to her chilling testimony, they were all hanged. In 'The Pendle Witch Child' poet Simon Armitage explores the lethal power and influence of one child's words - a story of fear, magic and demonic pacts retold partly with vivid and innovative hand-drawn animation. He discovers how Jennet's appearance in the witness box cast its shadow way beyond Lancashire, impressing lawyers, politicians, clerics and even the King himself and setting a dark precedent for child testimony in witch trials as far away as America. Finally, in a dramatic twist to the tale, he reveals how, 22 years after the original trial, Jennet's own words were very nearly the death of her - when she herself was put on trial, accused of being a witch by a 10-year-old boy. With the help of historians Malcolm Gaskill, Diane Purkiss and Ronald Hutton, Simon Armitage attempts to get inside Jennet's head and understand how the illegitimate and illiterate youngest child of a family of beggars could become both pawn and player in a much bigger story of 17th century religion, power, law, science and the monarchy. What made Jennet speak out so everyone she knew would die? And how did the courts decide to admit her evidence, and allow her example to create a precedent for accepting the testimony of other child witnesses who wanted to send their neighbours to the gallows? Although the events in this film may date back four hundred years, its issues resonate today as much as ever - when to believe our children, how the police and the court system should handle child witnesses and above all how, in times of crisis, fear of evil can easily lead us to behave in ways which may corrode the very values that we most wish to protect.
Random Movies on O2TV Series
Malicious (2018)
Malicious (2018)
Malicious (2018) A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.
S O S Iceberg (19
S O S Iceberg (1933)
S O S Iceberg 1933 In a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fancks Bergfilme Mountain Films, S O S ICEBERG S O S EISBERG takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, Karl Lorenz Gustav Diessl, is stranded on a steadily eroding iceberg A rescue crew, led by the heroic
Wrong Night Stand
Wrong Night Stand (2018)
Wrong Night Stand (2018) The story of Eddie, a young man who meets a beautiful woman called Eve. The two lovers begin dating. Shortly after, the waitress' crazed ex-boyfriend is released from prison and begins to ...
Centaur (2022)
Centaur (2022)
Centaur 2022 Addicted to strong emotions and speed, Rafa struggles to become a professional motorcycle racer, until he discovers that his sons mother owes a debt to drug traffickers To keep his family safe, Rafa decides to put his talent as a runner at the service of the criminal organization A circ
Gwyneth vs Terry
Gwyneth vs Terry The Ski Crash Trial (2023)
Gwyneth vs Terry The Ski Crash Trial 2023 Follows the civil trial earlier this year that saw Gwyneth Paltrow sued by and later counter sue Terry Sanders, after their collision on a Utah ski slope in 2016
The American Frie
The American Friend (1977)
The American Friend (1977) Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has
Cabin Fever (2016
Cabin Fever (2016)
Cabin Fever is a 2016 American horror film directed by Travis Z and written by Eli Roth. A remake of Roth's 2002 film of the same name, the film stars Samuel Davis, Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker, and Dustin Ingram
Cocaine Cowboys 2
Cocaine Cowboys 2 (2008)
Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the
Crime Story (2021
Crime Story (2021)
Crime Story (2021) An old man suffering from cancer seeks revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life.
Cannibal Cabin (2
Cannibal Cabin (2022)
Cannibal Cabin 2022 A group of 20 somethings want to end the summer on a high, they take the advice from a girl they met at a festival about a secret rave deep in the Valleys When their route is detoured they have no choice but to venture into the unknown Once they come across a derelict aqua park,
Berlin 39 (1993)
Berlin 39 (1993)
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo
A Film with Me in
A Film with Me in It (2008)
A Film with Me in It (2008) Mark is a wannabe actor, penniless, clueless, and inept. He cares for a brother who's paraplegic, and he has a girlfriend, Sally, who wants out of the relationship. His idea of life is to go to the occasional audition, dodge his landlord (having spent the rent money Sally
Mangkujiwo 2 (202
Mangkujiwo 2 (2023)
Mangkujiwo 2 2023 Mystery of the mysterious death of Tjokro Kusumo Tjokro Kusumo and Brotoseno were enemies who fought over the loji pusaka until the two of them harbored grudges against each other
25 Hill (2011)
25 Hill (2011)
25 Hill (2011) The story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with a father figure whose own son, a firefighter, died in the line of duty, and the two help each other find redemption and revive the derby.
Reclaiming the Bl
Reclaiming the Blade (2009)
Reclaiming the Blade 2009 The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind it is designed to kill The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance mar
Tall Tales from t
Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings (2017)
Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings (2017) When Apollo, a cricket saltimbanque the big heart, arrives at the village of small animals, he does not delay to disrupt the life of the Kingdom, on the eve of the jubilee of the Queen. Resulted in a conspiracy fomented by Huguette ..
How to Be (2008)
How to Be (2008)
How to Be (2008) At first fancying himself an "enigmatic poet", twenty something Art gradually realizes that he must take action if he's going to escape his depressed life as a struggling musician in London. A solution comes in the shape of a book titled "It's Not Your Fault". Not content to just dr
Salo or the 120 D
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion and degradation.