Movies

At the Trenartha Tin Plate Works a bitter industrial dispute has lasted five months. The founder of the company, the staunch conservative John...

It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to...

1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private...

'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered this summer ...' Using a remarkable blend of dramatic...

Financial and emotional accounts are settled as a family battle to survive in an unforgiving land.

Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.

In 1956, the British Prime Minister Anthony Eden grapples with the Suez Crisis, which brings an end to his political career.

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Jane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As...

The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.

The rise of Charles Dickens, from poverty to prosperity, traced and reflected in his writings.

Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then...

The World at War: A Special Presentation - Secretary to Hitler

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being...

Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him...

Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming...

A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

It was simple to live in the world in 1945 after the defeats of Germany and Japan. Did nearly 60 million people die for naught?

Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and...