Bbc Movies

On 16 June 2016 the murder of Jo Cox - in the heat of EU referendum campaigning - shocked the nation. Jo Cox: Death Of An MP tells the story of this h...

Despite not being a household name today, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Her flamboyance, skill, an...

Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and...

BBC Select gets political as this incisive documentary offers a sobering portrait of Henry Kissinger, quite possibly the most powerful US diplomat dur...

After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relativ...

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house,...

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

Fred Taylor displays a number of items from the Building Centre's 'Inn Sign Exhibition' held in November 1936. Some signs in the exhibition date back...

Louis goes to South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals in privately owned reserves.

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town...

On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration tha...

Actor Jack joins a panto tour of care homes, where he is confronted with the reality of where it ends.

'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face t...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

This film, by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle, explores our remarkable relationship with dogs. Over a number of months in north London's Hampstead He...

Spoof documentary. Thespian Nicholas Craig looks at "one of the most ferociously demanding of all acting periods, the 18th century". Tips on how to ha...

1969 documentary looking at the fortunes of two football managers, at opposite ends of the football league - Bertie Mee of First Division title challe...

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor...

Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this pa...