Movies

The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of...

Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very...

A father can't afford to take his family on holiday so he forces them to spend a week in their basement. He sets up lounge chairs and paints palm...

This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas...

Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.

A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they...

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

A man signs up as a driver for a group of criminals on a dangerous job. On the way to the hit the man hears the lottery numbers and realises he's got...

A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by...

An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne,...

This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was...

'You said I'm a teacher as if that makes me into a boss. I'm just someone who has to be here, same as you.' Redfern, a student teacher, thinks...

Josh and Jim want to know how Jack got his black eye. So the17 year old Jack explains over a couple of beers how their friend Lennie got him into...

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

During Wakes Week in the Potteries, the factory is deserted except for three electricians on an emergency maintenance job.