Movies

Exploring various aspects of history and the human species including war, love & sex, all with a playful, tongue-in-cheek humour.

In 1939, visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis designed a very special bomb that would bounce across water and destroy German dams. The raid in...

Comedy drama about John Croft (Neil Morrissey), a failed businessman who is heavily in debt when he finds a wallet which contains a map which he...

The story of a turtle family making their way home through a damaged and changing ocean. A powerful message about the threats the oceans are facing,...

This is the story of Alton Towers today and yesterday. We take a privileged journey through images dating back to the 1870s - through film dating...

What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.

In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an awkward situation.

Documentary about the pre-Beatles rock era, when a series of British acts created a unique copy of American rock 'n' roll

Hairdresser Maria is fixated by The Sound of Music - it was the film she saw the night she was jilted 18 years ago. In a bid to confront her demons,...

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state.

The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

Two rival detectives investigate a murder that involves black magic.

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.

Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a...

Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming...

Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play....

Beryl Bainbridge on Samuel Johnson and her novel According To Queenie - Johnson through the eyes of Queenie Thrale, the eldest daughter of Henry and...

Juliet Stevenson stars as prosecutor Helen West from the popular crime novels by Frances Fyfield. Helen and her significant other, Chief...