Bbc Movies

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, silliness and, above all, friendship.

Described by Bono as 'the Noel Coward of our generation’, the singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl would have turned 65 this year had her life not been tragically cut short in December 2000. Signed at the age of just 19 after being the backing singer for a fai...

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would ha...

Poet Simon Armitage explains how he is going behind the scenes of some of his poems to help readers understand and visualize how they are created.

How three people's lives were permanently affected by the TWA plane hi-jack.

Jon Holmes’s multi award-winning Radio 4 satire moves across to the screen for the first time and twists round for a retrospective look at the last three years.

A short movie, made for Comic Relief, in which Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) must help protect King Charles I (Stephen Fry) from the machinations of Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally kill...

'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta (played by Helen Mirren).

BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play.

In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.

Prof. Alice Roberts and Michael Mosley look into the similarities of both gender's brains and whether nature or nurture come into play with several experiments.

A trip through the archives to sample the best of Blondie over the years, featuring performances of such hits as Call Me, Atomic, Picture This, Rapture and The Tide Is High.

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.

There's a big fête approaching at Dream Acres. Compo, Clegg and Seymour happen upon a wiley transient, who persuades them to help him rescue his childhood donkey from a field. Soon, the tramp's plan of fixing the fête 'donkey derby' is revealed.

To generations Arthur Ransome's books, including Swallows and Amazons, were an integral part of growing up. But was there a darker side to the author? In this drama-documentary, the enthusiastic Griff Rhys Jones follows a trail that begins in Russia, reveals c...

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

Trevor Nelson presents Beyonce and her band, who perform a special concert at the front of Television Centre. Songs played: Deja Vu, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Destiny's Child, Medley, Ring the Alarm, Irreplaceable and Crazy in Love.

When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!

Maggie’s from the West Country; Craig’s from the Future - and together they might just save the planet. But should she take a chance on the handsome man with the far-out backstory? Or is she just desperate for a connection? As their bond deepens, the danger es...