Bbc Movies

When Matthew Bannister was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 1, his plans to make the station cool again began with the ousting of a number of long-se...

Drama documentary for the BBC Schools series Scene looking at London's Metropolitan Police, their role and powers within society and how society, spec...

Andrew Graham-Dixon considers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter and poet who reinvented the Victorian ideal of female beauty... and who...

Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.

Do people always get what they deserve? Lisa is a girl confiding in her counsellor across a series of sessions. She gradually reveals more about her s...

1960s working-class stars reveal their thoughts and feelings upon meeting royalty and how accents are now less of a hindrance in establishing credenti...

This documentary explores the authenticity of the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book that contains over 200 pages of indecipherable text and drawin...

The illustrator and author paints scenes from a 70-year-long career, including his work with Roald Dahl. With David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cap...

The story of the Crusades is remembered as a tale of religious fanaticism and unspeakable brutality, but using fresh evidence, Dr Thomas Asbridge re-e...

A BBC Television Training film that pulls back the curtain on how TV was really made in the 1960s, clipboards, call sheets, and all. It’s a fascinatin...

The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff and inmates of his retirement home.

Composer Howard Goodall uncovers the surprising and often secret history of the Christmas carol including how, over the centuries, carols have been ba...

Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely told story from the...

Two Bradford teenagers fall in love amid a growing period of racial tension in their community.

A detailed account of each of the details of the Malvinas War based on interviews, dramatic scenes, maps and other elements of historical roots withou...

Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?

Actress Emily Atack explores why she is sexually harassed online on a daily basis, and seeks to understand why the blame for unwanted sexual attention...

Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian.

Episode of the BBC television program with host Michael Parkinson interviewing American actor Henry Fonda.