Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-49 of 49
- A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.
- As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
- Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.
- Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
- North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
- The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.
- While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
- The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
- Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.
- In Victorian England, a young woman searches for a priceless ruby and uncovers even greater mysteries.
- During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Reisman to pick 12 soldiers from the military prison for the dangerous mission of killing a Nazi General.
- Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.
- An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
- A young boy's holiday at a seaside resort includes a crazy blind priest, nuns in suspenders and a whole bunch of fat ladies.
- A young boy struggles to fit into the life of a post-war English village after witnessing the death of his mother.
- A coming-of-age story perceived from the acts and feelings of Edward Richardson, a junior journalist who falls deeply in love with the enchanting and reckless Lydia Aspen, heiress of the welthy but on-decline Aspen family.
- With his trade-mark fez and bumbling stage persona involving clever conjuring tricks which appear to have gone wrong Tommy Cooper is one of Britain's most popular comedians, respected by his peers. However behind the public image is a curmudgeonly man who drinks too much. Mother of his children Tom Junior and Vicky, his wife Gwen - known as Dove - frequently travels with him to his performances but now feels that her place is at home with the children. Afraid of loneliness Tommy asks the married stage manager Mary Kay to join him on tour. Whilst Dove is concerned that his drinking and late nights are damaging to his health and a sign for him to give up, Mary is encouraging - partly as she sees Tommy as being helpful to her husband's writing aspirations. Soon Tommy is declaring his love for Mary whilst remaining married to Dove, with whom there are violent domestic exchanges. Surprisingly Tommy is able to sustain relationships with both women until his death on stage in 1984, a fact which causes sarcastic comments from Miff, his plain-spoken agent, who is not afraid to tell Tommy exactly what he thinks of him.
- London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing - and some not-so amusing - scrapes. Based on the first volume of Milligan's war memoirs.
- Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
- At the beginning of World War II, Rusty is sent to America by her parents to keep her safe. Now the war is over, it's time for her to come home. While she is glad to see her mother, Peggy, and tries to fit into her old life, her "American ways" don't go down too well at home. When her father, Roger, returns home from the war, he is desperate to have his life just the same as it was before, but he is forced to realize that his family is not the same one he left behind.
- Looks at the race for Nuclear Superemacy from The Manhatten Project through to The Islamic Bomb.
- May 1919. Indy is in Paris working as a translator during the peace conference following the end of the Great War. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the subject of racism as they visit New York city.
- After a one-year trip around the world, Twenty-year-old Daniel comes home to his extremely boring parents, who go along with their time in their own way. In their trendy clothes they make sexual freedom a mockery. This makes Daniel so in the wrong way that he flees again, to the 'peaceful, unspoiled countryside'. There is also a disillusionment there. Frustrations and sexual obsessions turn out to be as intense as in the big city. Even the strong, narrow-minded head of a peasant family is powerless against such problems. When Daniel's parents turn up to take him home, a scuffle arises that brings both parties closer together. Still, the boy succeeds in removing himself from all exaggerated sexual acts. If only he was a tree, he thinks. And then he becomes one.
- John Betjeman gives a guided tour of the Metropolitan Line from Baker Street in London to Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, and of architecture of the suburbs and villages that grew up along its length since the line was opened in the 1890s.
- Eric Sykes plays a scoutmaster who takes eight scouts camping in peaceful Tangle Woods. When he and one of the cubs become lost, their hilarious adventures are monitored by the Police, Army, Navy, Air Force, MI5 and a bunch of crooks, almost turning Tangle Woods into Armageddon.
- This visual music film exists of 10 music videos. The character is in fight with himself only to become his true self at the end. All the parts together form a movie with additional footage.
- A psychological drama about the loss and recovery of a life. The only way a young husband can get grip on the relationship with his wife is by acknowledging his feelings. Een psychologisch drama over het verlies en herwinnen van een leven. De enige manier waarop een jonge echtgenoot weer grip kan krijgen op de relatie met zijn vrouw is door zijn emoties onder ogen te zien.
- A portrait of the Bluebell Line, a preserved steam railway in Sussex, including interviews with the volunteers who run it.
- Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
- The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
- Dramatization of E. Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line.
- No one seems surprised when Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both confess to the murder.
- Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
- When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
- Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.
- Jimmy Sutane, a popular musical comedy star, is to appear in a show based on a book by a friend of Campion's. He is also being plagued by a series of practical jokes that are beginning to undermine his self-confidence and asks Campion to his house, White Walls, to investigate. Associates of Sutane and his wife Linda number 'Squire' Mercer, a talented musician and Chloe Pye, a washed-up actress. When Chloe is run over and killed by Jimmy Sutane in his car he swears it was an accident, but others are not so sure.
- An obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate.
- A mining entrepreneur hires Poirot to solve the brutal murder of his daughter and the theft of her jewels aboard the express train to Plymouth.
- A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
- Dian and Major Milligan crash the Duchess of Denver's cocktail party and later agree to a drug-dealing alliance with Wimsey utilizing his Bredon identity.
- 2011–20141h 35mTV-146.8 (2.5K)TV EpisodeBased on true events. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Jack Whicher is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the horrific murder of a three-year-old boy.
- After Bates' mother dies, he hopes his inheritance will buy him a divorce and allow him to marry Anna, Matthew announces his engagement to Lavinia Swire, and Sybil gets involved in the war effort.
- The crew are in Kent, England, inside Fort Horsted; the guys recruit locals to conduct a séance to provoke the demonic spirits that terrify visitors at the fort.
- Morse investigates a seemingly apparent hit-and-run accident that has claimed the life of an Oxford don.
- After a mourner at a supposed-suicide's funeral confides her suspicions of murder to young vicar Sidney Chambers, he joins forces with Inspector Geordie Keating.
- The team look at how the railways impacted on people, those who built them, the railway staff and industries across the country and at how the railway companies began to develop ways to transport people as well as goods.