Bbc Movies

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, an...

With unique access to one of the most senior Royal Princes in the Kingdom, this film paints a portrait of modern Saudi Arabia at a crossroads

Some champion exhibits from the National Cat Club Show and the Combined Bird and Aquaria Show, described by W. Cox-Ife, F. Hopkins, and L.C. Mandevill...

Alan Johnson MP (and former postman) tells the story of 500 years of the Royal Mail, and discovers how the humble British postal system changed the co...

Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of document...

Documentary about autism.

Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.

Back in December 1994, BBC2 devoted a Saturday evening to the bizarre, maddening and the macabre; screening a bunch of specially commissioned programm...

Director Paul Graham Scott joins a controversial Glasgow magazine, The Digger, as its court photographer naming and shaming gangsters, petty criminals...

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...

Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1991 for the Royal Ballet. The music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with some tradi...

Anita Brookner, art historian, TV presenter and author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac, added to her accomplishments in the 1980s by sharing...

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...

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...

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

Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother in The Royal Ballet's version of the classic fairy tale, using Sergei Prokofiev's music and Fr...

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

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...