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Men&Movies is a satellite television
Satellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

 channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

, available as a free-to-air
Free-to-air
Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...

 service on Freesat
Freesat
Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...

, Freeview (Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

 only) and Sky. It launched on the October 4, 2010, and was the first Freesat exclusive TV channel until it joined the Sky EPG on the April 4, 2011.

The channel is aimed at the middle
Middle age
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 to old age
Old age
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d male
Male
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 viewer, with its programming being orientated around war documentaries, classic TV series and the war
War film
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 film genre. Men&Movies is joined by its sister channels, Movies4Men
Movies4Men
Movies4Men is a satellite television film channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, available as a free-to-air service on Freesat, Freeview and Sky...

and Movies4Men 2
Movies4Men 2
Movies4Men 2 is a satellite television film channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, available as a free-to-air service on Freesat, Freeview , Sky and as in the basic package on Smallworld Cable...

which transmit other cinematic genres.

Programmes

  • Bomber Command
  • Cimarron Strip
    Cimarron Strip
    Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke...

  • Conan The Adventurer
    Conan the Adventurer (TV series)
    Conan: The Adventurer is a low-budget American television series produced from 1997 to 1998 and loosely based on the fantasy hero Conan the barbarian. The TV show premiered on September 22, 1997, and ran for 22 episodes. This live-action series starred Ralf Möller as Conan of Cimmeria and Danny...

  • Fighters of WW2
  • The History of the RAF
  • The SAS in Action
  • World of Sport
    World of Sport (UK TV series)
    World of Sport was a British television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 to 28 September 1985 in response to competition from BBC's Grandstand...


Examples of films seen on Men&Movies

  • Five for Hell
    Five for Hell
    Five for Hell is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film film starring Klaus Kinski. -Cast:* Gianni Garko - Lt. Glenn Hoffmann * Klaus Kinski - Standartenführer Hans Mueller* Aldo Canti - Nick Amadori...

  • McBain
    McBain (film)
    McBain is a 1991 action film written and directed by James Glickenhaus. It is about an ex-soldier who reunites his old army buddies in order to get revenge on a Colombian dictator who killed his old friend, a freedom fighter. McBain starred Christopher Walken, María Conchita Alonso and Michael...

  • Moon 44
    Moon 44
    Moon 44 is a 1990 science fiction, action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn and co-starring Brian Thompson.- Plot :...

  • Only the Brave
    Only the Brave
    Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit completely made up of Japanese Americans, which for its size and length service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history...

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