Movies: Bbc Tv

In the documentary, the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the War of Independence and the developments in the first years of the Republic of Turkey are told in parallel. The documentary prepared by Michael Adams c...

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall ...

A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors....

A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him....

BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio....

"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough....

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book....

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms....

Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun....

For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony....

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantas...

Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair....

Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984....

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern animals into the far future....

Follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route. The soundtrack features the Carl Davis composition Variations on a Bus Route, commissioned to celebrate London Transport's 5...

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus....

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street....

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat,...

Ruth invites her friend Mary to visit for the weekend. Mary brings an unexpected companion and the weekend becomes increasingly unsettled....