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1.
BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
Episode:
Flayed
(1978)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Todays theme: Flayed.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Timothy Bateson, Rowena Cooper, Hilda Fenemore, Julian Holloway
Votes: 13
2.
Napoleon and Love (1974)
Episode:
Louise
(1974)
51 min | Biography, Drama, History
Napoleon weds Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, a young woman with large sexual appetites. Before long, she is pregnant. Following a difficult labor, she delivers a son and immediately ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Susan Wooldridge, Catherine Schell
Votes: 9
3.
Napoleon and Love (1974)
Episode:
Maria Walewska
(1974)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
The Emperor frees Warsaw from the Russians and falls in love with Marie Walewska, who spurns his advances until Polish patriots convince her otherwise. If she becomes Napoleon's mistress, perhaps she can curry favor for Poland.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: Ian Holm, Catherine Schell, Peter Jeffrey, Peter Bowles
Votes: 8
4.
Survival (1961– )
Episode:
The Tides of Kirawira
(1994)
Documentary
It rains on the great herds of wildebeest on the Serengeti plains. Days later a flash flood sweeps along a sandy river-bed - it is the Grumeti river, a seasonal lifeline for all the ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone | Star: Ian Holm
Votes: 6
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,981,229 | Gross: $377.85M
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Georgine Anderson, Stephanie Bidmead, Michael Blakemore, David Buck
Votes: 126
7.
Napoleon and Love (1974)
Episode:
Eleonore
(1974)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Napoleon is the emperor of France but still has no heir. Is he infertile, or is Josephine too old? Napoleon's sister Caroline arranges a new mistress for him, Eleonore, who soon becomes pregnant. But is the child really his?
Director: Derek Bennett | Stars: Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Stephanie Beacham, Diana Quick
Votes: 9
8.
Napoleon and Love (1974)
Episode:
Maria Luisa
(1974)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Napoleon needs a son and knows that Josephine can never give him one. Josephine's final desperate ploy--spreading rumors of Napoleon's impotence--fails. Napoleon divorces her and demands the hand of the Austrian emperor's daughter.
Director: Derek Bennett | Stars: Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Janina Faye, Peter Bowles
Votes: 9
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
PG-13 | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean
Votes: 2,009,084 | Gross: $315.54M
10.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Berlin Game: Part 1
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
Bernard Samson, once a field agent for British MI6 based in West Berlin, is now working at a desk. A flashback relates how Samson attempted to run an aging Polish agent in Gdansk. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Mel Martin, Michael Degen, Eva Ebner
Votes: 21
11.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Mexico Set: Part 3
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Mel Martin, Michael Degen, Michael Culver
Votes: 7
12. Theatre Night (1957–1961)
45 min | Drama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Evelyn Laye, Dora Bryan, Hugh Williams
Votes: 69
13.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Berlin Game: Part 4
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian Holm, Hugh Fraser, Christopher Saul, Thelma Whiteley
Votes: 9
14.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Berlin Game: Part 5
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Stefan Gossler, Michael Mellinger, Mel Martin
Votes: 9
15.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Mexico Set: Part 4
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Degen, Michael Culver, Amanda Donohoe
Votes: 6
16.
Napoleon and Love (1974)
Episode:
Pauline
(1974)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Campaigning in Egypt, Napoleon hears of Josephine's infidelity. Heartbroken, he embarks on an affair of his own with Pauline, the wife of a French lieutenant, and promises to marry her after divorcing Josephine.
Director: Derek Bennett | Stars: Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Edward de Souza, Peter Jeffrey
Votes: 8
17. Nova (1974– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Science documentaries about various topics.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Stacy Keach, Eric Meyers
Votes: 3,099
18. Survival (1961– )
Documentary
Classic long-running British nature documentary series featuring different subjects each time.
Stars: Duncan Carse, Aubrey Buxton, Andrew Sachs, Patrick Allen
Votes: 81
19. The Queen of Trees (2005)
52 min | Documentary
The remarkable story of an African fig tree and the special relationship it has with the animals who depend on it.
Directors: Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone | Star: Ian Holm
Votes: 120
20.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Berlin Game: Part 3
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian Holm, Thomas Kunz, Cyril Thomas, Frederick Treves
Votes: 9
21.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Mexico Set: Part 2
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Degen, Bruno Dietrich, Gottfried John
Votes: 7
22. Alien: Isolation (2014 Video Game)
M | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In this first person survival horror adventure set fifteen years after the events of Alien (1979), Ripley's daughter becomes trapped on an alien-infested space station which holds answers to the mystery of her mother's disappearance.
Director: Alistair Hope | Stars: Andrea Deck, George Anton, Kezia Burrows, Richie Campbell
Votes: 6,284
23. Horizon (I) (1964– )
50 min | Documentary
British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.
Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach
Votes: 1,149
24. Natural World (1983– )
60 min | Documentary
Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
Stars: David Attenborough, Barry Paine, John Shrapnel, Andrew Sachs
Votes: 776
25. Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Bernard Samson is a spy in the employ of S.I.S., London Central.
Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Culver, Michael Degen, Anthony Bate
Votes: 264
26. The Wars of the Roses (1965–1966)
Drama
A filmed theatre production of four of Shakespeare's historical plays condensed down into a trilogy.
Stars: David Warner, Peggy Ashcroft, Donald Burton, Alan Tucker
Votes: 84
27.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Emma's Time
(1970)
80 min | Drama
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Michele Dotrice, Andrew Keir, Ian Holm, Pauline Yates
Votes: 11
28.
Mystery and Imagination (1966–1970)
Episode:
The Body Snatcher
(1966)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the early 19th century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.
Director: Toby Robertson | Stars: Trevor Baxter, David Buck, James Cossins, Ian Dewar
Votes: 9
29.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Mexico Set: Part 5
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Degen, Brigitte Karner, Gottfried John
Votes: 5
30.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
London Match: Part 1
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Degen, Michael Culver, Amanda Donohoe
Votes: 5
31.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
London Match: Part 2
(1988)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian Holm, Mel Martin, Gottfried John, Michael Culver
Votes: 5
32.
Legends (2006– )
Episode:
Al Bowlly: The Very Thought of You
(2007)
Documentary, Music
Stars: Ian Holm, Al Bowlly, Carrie Grant, Hugh Hefner
Votes: 6
33.
The Lost Boys (1978)
Episode:
Dark and Sinister Man
(1978)
Biography, Drama
Barrie takes photos of boys playing and writes a fantasy about sleeping with them. Peter Pan is being prepared.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Ian Holm, Maureen O'Brien, Ann Bell, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 12
34.
The Wars of the Roses (1965–1966)
Episode:
The Lord Protector
(1965)
Drama
The second half of Act 1, Scene 1 of 2 Henry VI (Gloucester unburdening his concerns to the court) and the rest of Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3, Scene 1 (York's revelation of his plans to use Jack Cade to instigate a popular rebellion).
Directors: John Barton, Peter Hall | Stars: David Warner, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Katherine Barker
Votes: 7
35.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Episode:
Part 2
(1977)
TV-G | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
Jesus meets Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist and continues to perform miracles among his people.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 551
36. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 952,135 | Gross: $78.90M
37. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
TV-G | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
Stars: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Votes: 25,030
38. Chronicle (1966–1991)
50 min | Documentary, History
Series tracing new developments in historical research.
Stars: Magnus Magnusson, John Julius Norwich, David Drew, Barry Cunliffe
Votes: 17
39. Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999)
13 min | Short
Director: Andrew Kazamia | Stars: Kate Maberly, Ian Holm, Polly Maberly, Penelope Wilton
Votes: 22
40.
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992–1998)
Episode:
The Tailor of Gloucester
(1993)
TV-G | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
It is Christmas time and an old tailor must great a waistcoat for the mayors wedding, but when illness and lack of money prevent him from doing so, a few little mice decide to help
Directors: Jack Stokes, Dianne Jackson | Stars: Niamh Cusack, Ian Holm, Derek Griffiths, Dan Russell
Votes: 75
41.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Episode:
Part 3
(1977)
TV-G | Biography, Drama, History
Judas implores Zerah to let Jesus appear before the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, where "He will be handed over to the unbelievers."
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 145
42.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Episode:
Part 4
(1977)
TV-G | Biography, Drama, History
Christ is condemned and crucified, dying on the cross, but he is resurrected on the third day.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 153
43. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992–1998)
TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An animated series, telling the story of many beloved Beatrix Potter characters.
Stars: Niamh Cusack, Enn Reitel, Mary Jane Bowe, Jenny Moore
Votes: 1,090
44. Secret Agent (2000– )
50 min | History, War
Documentary series recounting the exploits of the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.
Stars: Ian Holm, Peter Wilkinson, Angus Fyffe, Guido Zembsch-Shreve
Votes: 20
46.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Berlin Game: Part 2
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
A leak from within London Central has been discovered in the German arm of the British SIS. The leak causes concern among the higher levels of the SIS in regard to their East German "Brahms... See full summary »
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Mel Martin, Michael Degen, Michael Culver
Votes: 9
47.
Game, Set, and Match (1988– )
Episode:
Mexico Set: Part 1
(1988)
52 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Ian Holm, Gottfried John, Michael Degen, Brigitte Karner
Votes: 9
48.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Episode:
Part 1
(1977)
TV-G | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
After Joseph and Mary's betrothal, Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells her she will bear the Son of God. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to take part in Herod's census, where Jesus is born.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 561
49. The Bell (1982– )
50 min | Drama
When an ancient bell is discovered at the bottom of a lake near a nunnery, it creates all kinds of problems for people in the area.
Stars: Ian Holm, Tessa Peake-Jones, Trudie Styler, Michael Maloney
Votes: 42
50. The Power Game (1965–1969)
60 min | Drama
Sir John Wilder (Patrick Wymark), previously seen in 'The Plane Makers', ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.
Stars: Patrick Wymark, Jack Watling, Clifford Evans, Barbara Murray
Votes: 67