Bbc Movies

Documentary which tells the story of the golden age of British aviation and of how the original 'jet set' shaped air travel for generations to come. I...

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...

Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.

Thirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything pr...

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a ferve...

Consenting Adults A Study of Homosexuality is a 39-minute 16mm film, edited from two 30-minutes reports made for British television. Though made in th...

Actor Adrian Lester looks back on the celebrated 1996 Donmar Warehouse revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.

An impoverished knight is at odds with his rich but miserly father

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and...

Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1972 interview with comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, who he describes as 'the funniest double act we ever...

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 ho...

Flight is the ultimate superpower, an extraordinary ability that humans can only dream of. Yet an astonishing number of animals have mastered the skie...

A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

When neurologically ill American actress Sarah calls emotionally crippled English playwright Joe, they begin a very special relationship conducted thr...

A world first documentary film boasting unparalleled access to defending champion Welshman Geraint Thomas as he competes at the planet's toughest endu...

Spud doesn't have much of a life outside of caring for her father. But that's okay. She doesn't feel bad about herself, despite what society says. But...

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the f...