Bbc Movies

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to mil...

First transmitted in 1998, this is the story of four men who orbited Earth on board the ill-fated Mir space station, which NASA declared unsafe in 199...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary offering a description of the methods for shaping and forming materials using the electron beam, explosives, lost-...

BAFTA nominated BBC documentary about the acclaimed British artist L.S. Lowry.

After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will),German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage...

Suresh Verma, who owned a radio shop in Agra, was shot in the head in 1983. Titu Singh was born in December 1983 and had spontaneous memories of his l...

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 in which black British people of West Indian heritage share memories of the front parlour, a room kept pristine and only for strangers whi...

Three "phantom ladies" on the pleasures and pains of transvestitism. Originally aired on the BBC1 program Real Lives.

It has been linked to famines, epidemics, even the fall of empires. This program follows El Niño’s deadly path through human history and the progress...

A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Leb...

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah

Produced and directed by Fran Landsman, this documentary screened on BBC2 in July 2003. The family in question was the Jacksons, single-parent Jacqui...

A documentary looking at the first Sony deal of LTJ Bukem's Good Looking label in Japan and LTJ Bukem coming into the USA. The documentary follows Goo...

This programme tells the story of the private steam railway company the Strathspey Railway, which was engineered and run by a group of rail enthusiast...

This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded are...

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

This programme follows the lives of a group of British soldiers from 40 Commando Royal Marines, as they set up camp and patrol the North Borneo jungle...

Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and...