Movies

An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them.

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

Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun),...

A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet,...

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic...

Performance of extracts from The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a collection of speeches in Shakespeare's plays....

John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The...

When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.

A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother upon his death.

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.

The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University.

One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title character with which he used to be intimately...