Movies

Howard Carter hunts for the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun.

The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.

The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is struggling...

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in...

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.

Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all...

The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together...

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill,...

Set in Colonial America, Pocahontas has become a story of historical value known and loved internationally, among children of all ages. The film...

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared...

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the...

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette,...

The story of Paul who one day meets a young dancer who is the double of the dead wife he worships. Their meeting triggers a nightmare that takes him...

King Arthur faces his doom as his kingdom is undermined from within by the love of his queen for Sir Launcelot, and the treachery of Mordred, his son...

In the console room of his TARDIS, the Eleventh Doctor is celebrating his acquisition of a new fez formerly owned by his old friend Albert Einstein....

Myths, Legends and Folklore of Britain re-told in 8 tales woven together by a storyteller.