Bbc Movies

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists (represe...

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former dance...

BBC Television's Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell presents this invaluable guide to buying a second hand car. He takes the viewer through the best plac...

Ten-part BBC series looking at aspects of rock-climbing. A TV series for beginners with the accent on safety. With John Earle and Ron James. Episodes...

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly thr...

With an ambitious government and blessed with natural resources and new found markets, many believed that Brazil was set to be one of the most success...

This documentary film heads inside the deepest shaft ever discovered in Britain - Titan. Will a comprehensive 3D scan reveal the shaft’s true size for...

Thirteen years after her brother was stabbed and murdered, Chanell must write a letter for the murderer’s parole. A brutally honest film about grief a...

The story of Chang and his Magic Paintbrush as extracted from the Chinese folklore explains how a poor talented man named Chang was gifted a magical p...

A BBC Timewatch documentary examining history's first major attempted terrorist attack. His attempt to blow up Parliament has seen Guy Fawkes go down...

Highlights of the films shown on BBC Television since it reopened in June after a seven-year gap caused by World War II.

Lewis Capaldi delivers a powerful emotional headliner set to close this year’s TRNSMT.

After Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism charges, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted...

Food critic Giles Coren tries three extreme diet regimes in a bid to increase his life expectancy, meeting people whose pursuit of longevity dominates...

A highly innovative arts documentary, which uses the latest special effects, to investigate the cultural and scientific background behind the way we j...

In 1728, 12-year-old James Annesley was snatched from the streets of Dublin and sold into slavery in America - the victim of a wicked uncle hell-bent...

Charismatic, outspoken, and often controversial, Brian Clough is widely considered to be the best manager England never had and one of the best Englis...

Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares i...