Bbc Movies

John Patrick Crichton Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, was one of the richest men in the British Empire in the late 19th century. With an annual inco...

Cameron, a 13-year-old boy whose heart is failing. The only possible solution is an experimental transplant operation in which he's given a pig's hear...

Actor and comedian John Thomson looks back at the life and work of his friend and comedy colleague, the late and greatly missed Caroline Aherne. From...

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

In 2002, 20,000 members of the public cast their vote on what they saw as the locations everyone should visit at least once. The result is a definitiv...

While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and c...

Despite not being a household name today, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Her flamboyance, skill, an...

Examining Donald Trump’s love affair with social media. Using his tweets and first-hand testimony from White House insiders, this documentary for BBC...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's fol...

The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summe...

Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has lived since the death of her husband. He died of an overdose of sleeping pill...

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

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli goes on a heartwarming personal journey to explore his own Sikh identity and find out why the turban is back in fashion for you...

Islamic State has declared war on the most important and romantic ancient architectural sites in the world. Jihadi fighters seek the total destruction...

The RAF sprang to life during the First World War. It took off into a dangerous adulthood during the Battle of Britain and the bombing of Germany, and...

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

A special tribute to the much-loved star, who died in August 2022 at the age of 73 after a music career spanning over five decades and years spent rai...

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doesn't make for a good outcome. Hollywood-style grap...

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Danielle de Niese explores the lives and works of five female composers - from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century - who were famous in their lif...