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- In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.
- After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
- Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
- Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
- James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.
- Seen on Masterpiece Theatre, starring Francesca Annis in an award-winning performance, Lillie vividly captures the complex woman who became one of the most notorious and respected figures of the Victorian era.
- Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.
- Follows Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard and his family life.
- Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
- This drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.
- In 1847, the Irish potato famine forces Katie O'Neill and her husband to emigrate to a troubled South Africa where Katie runs into an old flame.
- This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
- During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.
- When an intruder is killed in her house, the comfortable life of Clarissa Hailsham-Browne is turned upside-down.
- Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
- Series of television plays performed live.
- This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
- An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
- Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.
- British drama about famous murder cases involving women.
- A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.
- A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
- British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
- Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.
- The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some 'chums' when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. As he grows older he retains his image of this beautiful young girl with the red hair. Through a chance meeting, he can pursue his career in the diplomatic corps as well as the young ladies he meets. A charming comedy with a sting in the tail.
- The professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.
- A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot's sister. As he uncovers more about the test flight, people connected with the case begin to die.
- A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
- Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
- The story of a female journalist and her boyfriend who inadvertently get involved with murder and mayhem and must run for their lives pursued by the Barcelona Mob.
- A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
- This film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance between two of the teachers, the grim decision of Red Poland to quit the experiment, and the problem of the German children being viewed as symbols of oppression rather than as victims the same as the children from other countries. The last credit line is for the Teachers and Children of Pestalozzi Village.
- A biography of pioneering black American singer/actress Dorothy Dandridge, featuring clips from her films and interviews with friends and co-workers.
- In the nineteenth century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.
- A Frenchwoman accused of the murder of her child's father in an English court rejects her defence lawyer. At the request of a Frenchman who saved his life during the war, a family solicitor reluctantly takes on the case.
- The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) named after her. In her film debut, the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel, plays the title role in a film that primarily strings together eight excerpts from well-known operas as well as one or two lighter numbers and a montage of famous opera personalities featuring the chorus of the Covent Garden Opera and members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. The story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch, and a suitor, to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussels and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
- A rich industrialist reaches the heights of success but finds himself increasingly isolated from everyone around him.
- Documentary about the legendary producer-director Alexander Korda, with extracts from his films ans interviews of those who worked with him.
- A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
- An elderly retired Judge, married to an attractive much younger woman, is found murdered. Then his corpse disappears and the police discover that his widow has a number of dubious associates.
- Documentary series on the golden age of Hollywood including interviews with Lee Garmes, Robert Altman, Henry King, George Cukor, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway, Phillip Dunne, Nunnally Johnson and Frank Capra.
- Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- 1797: The men of an ill-governed Royal Navy refuse to put their ships to sea. Aaron Graham, a London magistrate, is sent to investigate the circumstances leading up to the mutiny. His search leads him to dark taverns and stinking docks.
- 1959–19651h6.6 (61)TV EpisodeWith his marriage failing, a man hires a German assassin to murder his wife, who he suspects is having an affair. Things seem to go to plan at first, until the assassin decides not to kill the woman, but rather kidnap her, while still collecting his fee for the job. The husband wants proof of the murder (a body) before he pays. Things go wrong for both men when proof is not forthcoming.
- After a beautiful blonde is found murdered, her story is unraveled in flashbacks about her relationship to her posh girl's school friends and instructors, her troubled beau, and with a drug pusher seething with contempt.
- The story of George Joseph Smith, the "brides in the bath" murderer.
- A handsome young man tells the story of his escape from a female vampire in Eastern Europe.
- James takes Mr. Da Silva and his cargo of lemons to the Azores, but crew members Harris and McDade bully cabin boy Tom into helping them rob his possessions and kill the bosun when he tries to stop them. Eventually Tom does the decent thing, leading to their arrest. Samuel gives Charlotte three thousand pounds but, charmed by Seth Burgess, she gives it to him supposedly as a business investment. However he intends to buy back his ship 'The Black pearl' with it and leave her behind.
- An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
- 1950–1959TV Episode
- Lillie's affair with a rich jockey who enjoys shocking society worries Patsy, as Squire Abington has a history of abusing women. He wants to marry Lillie, but Edward still refuses to divorce her. Lillie doesn't break with Squire even after he beats her, but she collects money and gifts. Lillie starts racing the horses Squire gave her. Oscar Wilde is arrested for sodomy, convicted, and imprisoned. Lillie finally gets her American divorce and Edward is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
- A jewel heist sends Lillie back onstage. She remarries a man 20 years her junior, but can't keep him faithful. Bertie succeeds his mother to become King of England. Jeanne Marie learns the identity of her father.
- A biographical documentary about Sabu, his rapid rise to stardom as The Elephant Boy. His years of success making films in Britain and in the States. His wartime service in the US Army Air force and his post-war professional decline with the B-pictures but his happy family life until his early death.