Duncan Preston Movies

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants...

When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving...

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an...

Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames...

Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with...

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show...

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit....

A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria.

A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets...

A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.

Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It...