Mike Leigh completed his second feature film seventeen years after his stunning debut with Bleak Moments in 1971. In those intervening years he solidified his reputation with innovatory theatre and ...

Intended for broadcast in 1965, writer / director Peter Watkins' nuclear war drama was withheld by the BBC - possibly as a result of political pressure - and remained unshown for nearly twenty years, ...

There was so much more to Ealing Studios than its famous comedies. But there's one category of Ealing films that's really obscure. The 30-odd documentaries and propaganda shorts released by the studio ...

Mavis dreams of owning her own home, and the dream seems finally within reach. But her husband Arthur has dreams of his own ...

Two young lovers are caught on either side of a dispute over the territorial ambitions of the monolithic Ironside brewery against an 'olde-worlde', traditional family-run concern, Greenleaf. This ...

A naive, hot-headed young market trader finds himself in prison for a minor assault, beginning a spiral of events that will lead him into the hangman's noose. In 1965, the BBC's Wednesday Play ...

As an actor, John Hurt is drawn to misfit roles, outsiders and mavericks, victims and - occasionally - oppressors, sometimes pathetic (the Elephant Man), sometimes defiant (Emperor Caligula, or the ...

Factory worker and lad-about-town Arthur Seaton is having an affair with the wife of a workmate. She becomes pregnant and he starts to go out with a younger woman, Doreen. Eventually he decides to ...

Associated Rediffusion for ITV, tx. (London) 16/9/1959-12/6/1967 236 x 60 min episodes in 10 series, black & white ...

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance. Impressed with the finished results, the team screened the film for ...

British agents in WWII Crete hatch a daring and ambitious plan to capture the Commander of the island's occupying German forces.

Unsurprisingly, given his stature as one of the greatest writers in the English language, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has directly or indirectly inspired a huge number of British films - and an ...