Bbc Movies

Famous South Yorkshire artist John Shuttleworth enters a song for Europe, aided and abetted by his impresario manager Ken Worthington in this spoof.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where...

a short documentary about Brick Lane Beigel Bake, from 1992

Magnus Magnusson's guide to the Egyptian king Tutankahmun's celebrated visit to a London museum in 1972.

Documentary giving a devastating insight into the lives of 4 alcoholics and the people who care for them.

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

When Martin's adopted daughter is kidnapped from their English home by a mysterious figure from Ireland, Martin decides to go in pursuit and finds him...

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be w...

John Sweeney reports on the catastrophe which befell New York's World Trade Center on 9/11.

How not to do a business meeting, everything and anything goes wrong for these hapless workers.

Locals call it the "arribada", Spanish for "arrival": the magical days and nights when tens of thousands of sea turtles come ashore on Costa Rica's Pa...

Writers, actors, directors discuss E.M. Forster and his literary works.

A BBC Television Training film that pulls back the curtain on how TV was really made in the 1960s, clipboards, call sheets, and all. It’s a fascinatin...

Using modern technology and esteemed historians, The People's Piazza tells the story of the iconic Covent Garden Piazza, through stories of it's resid...

The contrast between the majestic statues of Easter Island and the desolation of their surroundings is stark. For decades Easter Island, or Rapa Nui a...

Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ,...

Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect...

During a season of carnage on Mount Everest, a team of elite climbers attempt to solve the mystery of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine - lost during t...

BBC documentary on the brutally honest writer/poet Charles Bukowski.