Bbc Movies

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to f...

An interview with British film director Mike Leigh produced for BBC-TV.

After the breakdown of his marriage Gil struggles to bring up his two daughters, but his care is not enough to ward off the all-pervading power of the...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his hom...

Writer Peter Shaffer talks about his plays, his life and the theatre. 'I think the live experience in the theatre is very important when you can see s...

Documentary about the Cold War spy George Blake, who betrayed his colleagues to the KGB, then escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled t...

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual p...

A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

Documentary in which soprano Danielle de Niese provides a unique backstage pass to her preparations for the role of Rosina in Glyndebourne's 2016 prod...

An in-depth look at Trinidad and Tobago's carnival through its turbulent history. African and East Indian rhthyms and rituals, combined with the Europ...

Documentary about the world of the African driver ant, a sinister army of 20 million sisters which thrives by ravaging the forest, killing every thing...

The work of professional photographer David Hurn, shown tackling a wide range of subjects from fashion to photojournalism to candid paparazzo shots.

Jimmy Jewel plays the part of Grandad George Saunders in this Scene play from the late 1980's. Is grandad really going daft or is it just old age catc...

A 4 part documentary about jazz musician / actor Slim Gaillard with interviews, archival footage & performances.

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house,...

A collection of Shania Twain’s biggest moments from the BBC archives, including live performances, her earliest UK TV appearances from the days of her...