Movies

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who...

Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just...

The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Paul McGann as he battles for reason and stability...

A hugely successful television and film actor, Paul McGann played the Eighth incarnation of Doctor Who in the 1996 television film - a pilot that,...

Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.

A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’ leads to a sign from the afterlife...

Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been front page news ever since. Ian Brady fantasized...

For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding...

A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.

For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one...

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the...

James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expense of his marriage - he attempts to re-create in...

The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famous band. The documentary looks at the emergence...

A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition.

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk....

The history of still life painting with oil paints

With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved birds. And yet it's rare to catch more than a...