Bbc Movies

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...

Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the deat...

Based on the English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith in the 1880s. The diary records the daily events in the lives of...

The Brent Delta is but one of 40 platforms between the Shetlands and Norway which reap this black liquid harvest. It is a strange and eerie world: the...

Captain Vere, an old man, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and found wanting. Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life i...

A teenager uses her late dad's magic Y-fronts to stop her best friend being murdered at a party - again and again.

Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, hopes and risks experienced by those involved with t...

Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1972 interview with comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, who he describes as 'the funniest double act we ever...

A tribute to Liverpudlian comic Ken Dodd, in which he discusses his career and the influences of his comedy style.

When all the ice creams go missing, Lolly the cow and Pinecone the hedgehog team up for a musical road trip to save the Empress of Storyland's Summer...

Terence is a butcher, his wife Eden a vegetarian. At their last supper together before their divorce, he tries to fathom why she has left him. After a...

A performance of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons performed by Julia Fischer at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales

This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy. The film reveals the full extent of the Brit...

Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career on a selection of BBC shows, featuring some of Barry’s funniest, rudest and most revealing m...

Karen and her older sister Sandra both take a trip to Brighton due to unforeseen circumstances.

'One of your Popes had a great thing to say once. He had been listening to some music by Palestrina with Palestrina himself. He said to him, " The law...

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors includ...

The Brockman family are on a special mission at Christmas time.

Broadcast on the BBC in 1961, this performance by legendary vocalist Nat King Cole features many of his greatest hits, including "It's Only a Paper Mo...

A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part of the BBC Thirty Minute Theatre strand.