Britain Movies

British animation short from Paul Vester.

In 1963 in the countryside in England, fifteen men pulled off 'The Great Train Robbery' netting today's equivalent of $85million. This incredible...

Gwenn is a young woman from Lann Vraz, a wild Breton peninsula where oyster beds and a nature reserve coexist. After being away from her family in...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before...

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the...

In the mid-1960s, Bretons took direct action against the French state. What were the origins and causes of this fervor, sung by Glenmor, the bard of...

Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1957, Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten-year-old son, Victor. The family has recently moved...

Released in 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Shown as part of the BBC's Modern Times series. Think of England shows Parr talking to the many people he encountered in the summer of 1999. He...

When Tom returns to his hometown after several years away, he meets his former friend for a drink in hopes of discovering one thing. Why did his...

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are...

Chronicles the musical career of British post-punk art rockers Wire.

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to...

In the final weeks of WW2, as the Nazis are on the verge of surrender, a young British stenographer is faced with a difficult decision when his...

1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously,...

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year. While politicians argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, we ask...