Movies

'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...

World War II propaganda film.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."