Bbc Movies

Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spin...

Catherine Tate's Nan makes life hard for Holby City surgeons and nurses when she is admitted to one of the hospital's wards.

Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in Ha...

A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.

This is an interesting documentary about Stalin, his rise to power, and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in WWII. It's split into two parts, the fi...

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university f...

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Paul Weller remains one of the most successful British singer-songwriters of all time. Known for pushing the b...

An interview with American director, Anthony Mann. This documentary was first seen as episode 8 of the BBC TV series "The Movies." (A 17-minute excerp...

In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair. Hours after her death, the only suspect in the c...

A trip through the archives to sample the best of Blondie over the years, featuring performances of such hits as Call Me, Atomic, Picture This, Raptur...

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated t...

London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film produced by the BBC Film Unit. The camera was manually undercranked to produce a 'fast-motion' film...

Undercover reporter Mark Daly reveals racism among police recruits in Manchester, England.

Food critic Giles Coren tries three extreme diet regimes in a bid to increase his life expectancy, meeting people whose pursuit of longevity dominates...

A tribute to a legendary duo from the golden age in television variety. From 1971 to 1987, and over the course of twelve series and eight specials, T...

In an opera version of the famous literature classic, during World War I, an airplane pilot crashes his plane in the Sahara Desert, where he has a ver...

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.