All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Rhys Ifans, ranked

This Game of Thrones prequel series finds the Targaryen dynasty at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires—real and imagined—crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins almost 193 years before the events of Game of Thrones, when King Viserys Targaryen breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne.

A pair of investigators tackles the NYPD’s most challenging cases. After a downfall in London and a rehab stint, the unconventional Sherlock relocates to Manhattan. His affluent father compels him to cohabit with his least favorite person – a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

In early 2003, GCHQ analyst Katharine Gun obtains a memo detailing a joint United States and British operation to spy on diplomats from several non-permanent United Nations Security Council member states Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea in order to dig dirt on them and influence the Security Council into passing a resolution supporting an invasion of Iraq.

In 2013, Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. Poitras later released a documentary about this meeting titled Citizenfour, this in turn was used in a scene within the film Snowden. He eventually fractures his tibia, and is informed that he will be receiving an administrative discharge and that he may serve his country in other ways.

In 2013, Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. Poitras later released a documentary about this meeting titled Citizenfour, this in turn was used in a scene within the film Snowden. He eventually fractures his tibia, and is informed that he will be receiving an administrative discharge and that he may serve his country in other ways.

Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

The film recounts the extraordinary real-life tale of athlete Diana Nyad. At 60 years old, with the assistance of her closest friend and coach, she makes a resolute commitment to fulfill her lifelong aspiration: an arduous 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.

A young Peter Parker discovers that his father Richard Parker’s study has been burglarized. At home, Peter finds his father’s papers, and learns his father worked with fellow scientist Dr. Curt Connors at Oscorp in the field of cross-species genetics.

When Quoyle was a young boy, his father tossed him into a lake, expecting him to swim naturally. Images of flailing in water and nearly drowning often resurface in Quoyle’s memory when he is under stress. Quoyle, now an ink setter at a small newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, lives a lonely life. He becomes infatuated with and marries a vivacious local woman named Petal.

In London, England 1906, arch crook and ace fencer James “Jimmy” Hook assembles a gang of juvenile street thieves, including Peter. Jimmy proposes the risky job robbing of Harbottle’s Jewelry and Antiques, which he has been hired to rob. However, after seeing Peter’s over-eagerness and the hesitancy of the other boys, he changes his mind and decides to do the job alone.

A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Two strangers will become connected by the tragedy, yet one dangerously feels that the connection goes much deeper than the other is willing to admit.

The Miss World competition took place in London in 1970, hosted by Bob Hope and watched by over 100 million people. The women’s liberation movement, which opposed beauty competitions as objectifying to women, gained fame when they interrupted the live broadcast. When the show resumed, Miss Grenada, the first black woman to win the competition, was announced as the winner, causing a stir and challenging the Western standard of beauty. The incident also marked a shift in the patriarchy on a global scale.