Bbc Movies

On four nights in the summer of 1985 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band filled to capacity the Los Angeles Coliseum, home of the 1984 Olympics. I...

A long, brave reach for a portrait, not of an intimate, private love, but of an inspiration, an icon, a man only ever sketched obliquely however many...

Stacey Dooley is spending ten days living alongside the nuns of St Hilda's Priory in Whitby. Will she cope with the sisters' strict lifestyle, and wha...

Rob Burrow, one of Rugby League’s greatest players, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in late 2019. His family now care for his every need 24 h...

The jaw-dropping story of Carl Beech, a former nurse from Gloucester who claimed he had been sexually abused by a group of prominent men in the 1970s...

A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.

The Celts: Rich Traditions and Ancient Myths is a 1987 documentary series from the BBC that examines the origins, growth, and influence of Celtic cult...

Key decision makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. Reporter John Ware charts the history of a deca...

Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, o...

The Brent Delta is but one of 40 platforms between the Shetlands and Norway which reap this black liquid harvest. It is a strange and eerie world: the...

Jimmy Jewel plays the part of Grandad George Saunders in this Scene play from the late 1980's. Is grandad really going daft or is it just old age catc...

A film about the world's most beautiful woman, a Hollywood goddess and her forgotten breakthrough invention that revolutionized mobile phones. A film...

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writ...

Film "The Adventures of Alice" based on the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories, resear...

Rob Bell examines Haslar a Military Hospital created to treat the wounded from overseas military actions.

The definitive portrait of an extraordinary man; an English World Cup winning legend, who became an Irish hero. The documentary features key character...

This is the story behind the fiendishly addictive game, a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds set against the backdrop of Cold War tensi...

John's Not Mad is a QED documentary made by the BBC in 1989. It was ranked, in a British public poll, as one of the 50 Greatest Documentaries. The fil...

Martin Shaw takes a fresh look at one of the most famous war stories of them all. The actor, himself a pilot, takes to the skies to retrace the route...