Bbc Movies

60-minute biography of Mao Zedong.

A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’ through 200 years of English literat...

An animated cartoon with an anti nuclear theme made by David Stone while a student at the Royal College of Art.

A BAFTA award nominated BBC feature following American evangelist Billy Graham on his Greater London crusade, centred on Earl's Court in June 1966

In June 1979, London played host to Gay Pride Week, which culminated in the Pride March through the capital. It was, at the time, the largest assembly...

A documentary charting the early years of the Aztec civilization in ancient Mexico.

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

Two bored teenagers on holiday at an English seaside resort race against time to foil a sinister plot at the local Naval College.

Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and sculptures...

A performance of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons performed by Julia Fischer at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales

This film follows a team of experts as it excavates a famous WW1 battlefield in search of a top secret tunnel and a legendary 60-foot flame-thrower. B...

It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant. It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds. And it may even have pro...

This is a film made by Sweeney in 1994 about his return to Osijek to investigate his friend’s death, a follow-up to his 1992 article in The Observer,...

The lives and times of British mercenaries fighting in the Yugoslavia Civil War, earning as little as £100 a month in the Yugoslavia army's only Engli...

A look at parrots, birds with a playful nature and remarkable mimicry skills that have endeared them to pet owners worldwide. Included: the largest pa...

Who was the real Noah? According to the Bible, Noah was a holy man who saved humankind and all the animals in a wooden ark two-thirds the size of the...

The Last Night of the Proms 2020, featuring South-African soprano Golda Schultz with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor Da...

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten,...

“Where is my son? Why don’t they give him back to me?” In 1973, a month after Pinochet seized power in Chile, a helicopter headed north. 4 days later...