Bbc Movies

Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just over six months, promp...

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson an...

Geri Horner follows in the footsteps of Tom Jones, Keith Richards, Boy George and Jazzie B by revisiting the decade that has defined her life and care...

A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.

Fiona Bruce traces the story of one of history's great royal love affairs: the love between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was a love based on a...

Showcases a series of daring raid made by various sections of the British military during World War II. The raids highlighted are "Stopping Hitler's A...

This programme tells the story of the private steam railway company the Strathspey Railway, which was engineered and run by a group of rail enthusiast...

Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the gr...

The film presents one season in the life of the sometimes hard to find Satin Bowerbird - the fascinating "Playboy of the rainforest" whose imaginative...

The Plot to Murder Lloyd George is a 1983 British television docudrama produced by the BBC, which premiered on March 16, 1983. Directed by Ben Rea, th...

For more than 70 years, the UN has been at the forefront of work to uphold human rights and promote global peace. But what happens when the fixer of t...

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the...

Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield.

Ian Hislop presents this film about the colourful, seriously wealthy Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't alw...

After the 2012 Olympics in London, track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy retired, having become the first British Olympian to win six gold medals. But having sp...

Poet Simon Armitage explains how he is going behind the scenes of some of his poems to help readers understand and visualize how they are created.

In 1973, Sweet were the subject of a documentary All That Glitters for BBC Schools series Scene. Being intended for “educational purposes,” the progra...

Clarkson presents a series of motor racing action, crashes, and road tests of high-performance sports and touring cars.

Documentary following the new board of FC Barcelona as they attempt to turn around the club's business performance.