Bbc Movies

In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of Britain's best-loved playwrights. Part frank reflection o...

The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.

A celebration of one of the most successful Anglo-American musical partnerships of all time with a look into the BBC archives for Fleetwood Mac's fine...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthro...

Doctor Who returns to the Proms to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the popular BBC series. As well as showcasing Murray Gold’s music from the past e...

A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, filled with interviews with the director, the screenw...

The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Go...

Cars! Film! Cars on film! Film involving cars! You get the idea. It’s basically a DVD involving those two things. Gasp as we find the perfect drift c...

Glastonbury 2024 - Saturday 29 June - The Park Stage - 21:15 - 22:15 Orbit’s 2024 performance marked the seventh time they have played at the annual...

BBC's 1994 documentary on the manga and anime phenomenon that was just starting to hit the UK at the time, and its origins in Japan. Presented by Jona...

Just before copywriter Victor Dean fell to his death, he wrote to his supervisors at Pym's Publicity Ltd., hinting at improprieties within the agency....

At 15, Shamima Begum left London to join the terror group Islamic State. For the first time, her account of what happened is investigated to find the...

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial pai...

Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man fro...

In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house onl...

The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom o...

In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy...

It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]

A documentary on the ways in which the symbolism of the breast is expressed in film, fashion and filth, how the bosom is idealised and the means by wh...

Join the BBC cameras as they go behind the glitter of Buckingham Palace and the pomp of Windsor Castle for a close-up look at the minutia of the monar...