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- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsPaul McGannDavid MorrisseySteven WaddingtonAn army unit, conducting reconnaissance deep within enemy territory, is disclosed and defeated. Several surviving soldiers desperately run to the border.
- DirectorArnold MonteyStarsNicolas LeesGalen Marek (codenamed Starkiller), Darth Vader's secret apprentice was trained in the Dark Side to hunt down the surviving Jedi. Later he must decide to stay in Dark Side or turn to the Light Side.
- DirectorRichard DaleKim BourPamela GordonStarsIan HolmAndré HeintzRaimund SteinerDramatised documentary, based on the experiences of the soldiers who invaded France in the D-Day Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944 which were instrumental in ending World War II.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsRob LoweKenneth CranhamDeborah MooreBritish soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain.
- DirectorMark SobelStarsKelly McGillisWolf LarsonLiz TorresWhen a tornado takes her meteorologist husband's life, his wife and colleague devotes her own life to prove his theories that violent twisters are predictable.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsRob LoweKenneth CranhamDeborah MooreWhen they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944, Chinese factions, the British government, Hong Kong businessmen, AND the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon, pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British, does it his own way. But we see a new twinkle in his eye when he looks at sweet Su Yin... And can it be that pretty Inspector Hanna Bernstein is beginning to grow fond of Sean?
- DirectorAlan NixonStarsLysette AnthonyJay BenedictPaul BirchardWhen the President's plane is forced to land in a small village, he has no choice but to stay at the nearby hotel. Terrorists take over the hotel and it's left to hotel staff and NYPD (local police) to save the day.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsEdward WoodwardJohn HillermanAnthony AndrewsProfessor Moriarty is loose in London with spies everywhere, and only Sherlock Holmes can figure out what he's up to and stop it.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsPatsy KensitJürgen ProchnowRobert SpitzAn unhappy male takes a classroom of children and their teacher (Patsy Kensit) hostage with a set of explosives strapped to his body.
- DirectorEuros LynStarsEddie ShinJaime WinstoneTalulah RileyThe year is 2012 and only Buddhist kung-fu cop Terry Phoo and teenage ne'er-do-well Whitey Action can save London and the Nation as a whole from mutant criminals who are taking over.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsRoss KempSaskia ReevesMark BazeleyGavin Hughes, an illegal arms dealer turned government informant, must travel to Iran in a terrorist sting that will earn him immunity from his checkered past, but nothing will go as planned.
- DirectorGraham TheakstonStarsDervla KirwanMark WomackCiara LyonsA former IRA bombmaker is forced to resume her craft when her daughter is kidnapped.
- DirectorDiarmuid LawrenceStarsStanley TucciDan TetsellLaura ElphinstoneThis version establishes a dramatic connection with Great Ormond Street, the world famous children's hospital that has become irrevocably associated with Peter Pan. The story will be retold through the imagination of a young girl named Lucy who is about to receive hospital treatment for a serious heart condition. This is Lucy's version of Peter Pan, the startling fantasy of a brave, imaginative and utterly modern young girl who fears her illness might mean that she, like Peter Pan, may never grow up. Lucy dreams this version of Peter Pan into existence after reading the novel late on the night before her operation, when her weakened heart is already beginning to fail. This is why she identifies with it so deeply, why her imagination works upon it so powerfully - and why we care so much about her story.
- DirectorHarley CokelissStarsEmily HamiltonEmma CunniffePatricia RossYoung Lucy McLaughlin's (Emily Hamilton's) father (Todd Boyce) has lost his job and to help make ends meet she is sent to live with her Grandmother (Jan Moffatt). To help her get over her loss, the old lady gives Lucy a magic ring which will grant her two wishes. But as always is the case with magic, what you wish for can be twisted by the granter of the wishes into something not quite what you wished for.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsTimothy DaltonMarg HelgenbergerNigel HaversHer friend, Doctor Peter Husak, introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. Agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization. When Kate finds out that Husak is willingly cooperating with the K.G.B., she leaves him and asks Carver, who's about to bring a businessman out of the country, to take her and her baby with him on a dangerous flight.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsGeorge PeppardDeborah RaffinMichael YorkAn American officer on a landing craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German E-boats and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British S.O.E. Agent impersonating an S.D. officer.
- DirectorBill CorcoranStarsChristopher LeePatrick MacneeJenny SeagroveKing Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.
- DirectorMark HaberStarsAriana RichardsAndrew KeirDavid RobbWhen her divorced mother dies, Sarah, a 15 year old Californian girl, is sent to live with her father on his farm in the Scottish highlands. There she meets a hermit (Fergus) who looks after sick and injured animals and destroys any traps set by hunters. One day she sees a white stallion in the fog. Her father doesn't believe that the horse is real, and that Fergus is having too big an influence on her. But the poachers are after the beautiful horse.
- DirectorAlrick RileyStarsCharles FurnessJolyon CoyJassa AhluwaliaA whaling ship called the Essex becomes shipwrecked and those on board struggle for survival.
- 2002–20081h 33m6.7 (533)TV EpisodeDirectorBille AugustMike NewellStarsCorey CarrierMargaret TyzackRuth de SosaHenry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psychoanalytical conference in Vienna, Austria in November 1908. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austria, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florence, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. With her husband away in Rome, Anna is torn between her feelings for her husband and the impulsive Italian.
- DirectorJohn HayStarsJason FlemyngJodhi MayJay VilliersSet in Colonial India in 1925 this is an adaptation of Jim Corbett's hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.
- DirectorFrancis VoseStarsRobin BaileyMaurice DenhamJimmy HibbertA meek young Russian peasant finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime when he is mysteriously bestowed with a flying ship that sets sail for the Tsar's royal court.
- DirectorTerry MarcelStarsEmma SammsParis JeffersonDirk BenedictAn American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsChristian CampbellChristopher BoltonGene HeckNick, a 17-year-old on a train journey to find his father, strays off course and finds himself in the Limberlost Forest where he gains employment with a logging company, and learns the values of honesty, integrity, and true friendship.
- DirectorBrendan MaherStarsJames Anthony PearsonTania AndersonJohn Bach15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, sees them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
- DirectorRalph L. ThomasStarsStacy KeachMargot KidderNick MancusoIvanhoe is learning his way while having dealing with his father, Sir Cedric. The Normans are threatening England so he must quickly develop under the tutelage of the Black Knight, secretly King Richard, and followers of Robin Hood.
- DirectorBrian KleinStarsCaspar LeeJoe SuggYouTube pranksters Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee embark on a hilarious and adventurous road trip across the United States.
- DirectorJohn PiperDebbie GellerSarah HuntStarsRoger MooreKen AdamMichael AptedRoger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
- DirectorBeeban KidronStarsSharon MaughanGideon TurnerDavid WarnerCinderella (named Zezolla) and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsJim BroadbentHugh LaurieLyndsey MarshalNine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.
- DirectorElliot HegartyStarsDavid WalliamsSian GibsonToby LongworthCinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- DirectorSyd MacartneyStarsTruan MunroNic KnightKaren SaltPrince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.
- DirectorDavid GrossmanStarsShelley DuvallElliott GouldScott GrimesArlo and Gus return in the rollicking, "ribeting" sequel to "Frog." When Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, tangles with a wicked witch, Arlo must come to the rescue, catapulting the two into a series of stirring adventures.
- DirectorCrispin ReeceStarsIan RichardsonCelia ImrieSarah-Jane PottsAn American millionaire moves into an historic and imposing mansion, which comes complete with its very own eccentric ghost.
- DirectorSue JuddStarsWill HartmannDorothea RöschmannDiana DamrauOne of the most iconic operas of all time; "The Magic Flute" (Die Zauberflöte) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is about a Prince, Tamino, conquering all odds to be wise and to rescue the daughter, Pamina, of the Queen of the Night. This is one of the best known productions of this opera, in Covent Garden- London 2003. Conducted by Sir Colin Davis, performers include Simon Keenlyside as Papageno, Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina, Will Hartmann as Tamino and the legendary Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night (Königin Der Nacht).
- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsRay FearonRoss KempShezwae PowellAn unscrupulous loan shark who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsRachael AncherilChristian BakoKeith BerryWerewolves The Dark Survivors: This two hour special examines what werewolves would be like if they actually existed and were part of society. It is shot in a faux-documentary style.
- DirectorMichael WhyteStarsAmanda BurtonMatthew MarshNicholas JonesCommander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison but is now out on parole and is a successful author with a best-selling book. Blake's colleagues however, especially DCI Mike Hedges, believe Lampton is responsible for another murder and are out to prove his guilt. Things become complicated when Blake and Lampton become intimate and the question arises whether he is being honest with her or is simply a master manipulator.
- DirectorTristram PowellStarsKenneth CranhamRachel ShelleyLia WilliamsIn this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
- DirectorNicholas LaughlandStarsSomerset PrewGeorgia TennantFrancesca FowlerLife for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and Dee was hounded from her home. Dee has kept all this a secret from her 15-year-old son Jamie. Now he has discovered the truth about his father and demands to see him.
- DirectorRichard StandevenStarsPatrick PolettiFiona ShawFinbar LynchA former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Starring Fiona Shaw, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Salmon.
- DirectorCharles BeesonStarsColin BuchananJayne AshbourneHermione NorrisWhen Mark Easterbrook finds himself in the frame for the murder of a priest, there seems no way to prove his innocence other than solving the mystery himself.
- DirectorMark JoffeStarsLouise LombardLaura GorunThommy ArenaWhen Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count."
- DirectorDavid DruryStarsChris ArmstrongChris BeaumontJohn BurgessAnne Travers is a lawyer and her adulterous husband Michael Mitcham is a psychologist. Michael's keys are found on the dead woman's body. When Michael is charged with murder, Anne decides to be her husband's lawyer.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsDavid JasonIan Puleston-DaviesTony HaygarthA British Sub goes missing at the end of WWII, leaving only one survivor. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, then 40 years later it reappears without a crew. The British government sends for the one surviving crew member (David Jason), who is now a marine biologist. With a new crew, Jason proceeds to trace the last known happenings on the sub. But this submarine has a life of its own and the new crew soon start showing characteristics of the old crew.
- DirectorRené BonnièreStarsEmma SammsHannes JaenickeBeau StarrWhen a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts a new life in Minnesota.
- DirectorRobert BiermanStarsGreg WiseKeeley HawesTerrence HardimanWhen the fabulous Moonstone diamond is stolen, all the suspects appear to have alibis. Even the young girl who owns the diamond won't say whom she saw took it. A dear family friend calls in the famous Sergeant Cuff to solve the case, but they'll have to untangle a skein of lies and retrieve lost memories before they'll find the path to the diamond.
- DirectorPaolo BarzmanStarsNastassja KinskiTobias MorettiAndrea RothA young woman, seemingly good but still psychologically disturbed from being kidnapped as a little girl, becomes the obvious suspect in a murder.
- DirectorJohn DaviesStarsRoy MarsdenSimon ChandlerKenneth ColleyCommander Dalgleish of Scotland Yard investigates the apparent murder of a well-known author who is found floating in a dinghy with his hands chopped off. The man, Maurice Seton, had recently been ejected from a private club when he was caught photographing some of its members at the gambling tables. The club had been under suspicion of laundering large amounts of cash and had been the object of a police investigation for some time. The case becomes more complex when the autopsy reveals that Seton died of natural causes and that his hands had been removed post-mortem. As the investigation continues, there appear to be no end to the number of people who would like to have seen Seton dead, including his brother Digby, who stands to inherit, and literary critic Oliver Latham who was perpetually in debt. In his personal life, Dalgleish's relationship with Deborah Riscoe comes to a crossroads when the investigation interferes with their private life.
- DirectorSimon MasseyStarsGeraldine SomervillePhil DavisRobert BathurstThe brutal murder on her parents leaves daughter and only witness, Finn, injured and traumatised. The police places her at the remote house of trauma psychologist, Dr. Sam Graham. As Finn begins to recover, the cleaner who had first discovered the murdered couple dies suspiciously. When Finn and Sam's boyfriend, Danny, disappears, Sam must put herself and her little daughter at risk to uncover the truth.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsRoy MarsdenMairead CartySean ScanlanScotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases. Dalgliesh and his team can't quite figure out why they've been assigned to what seems to be a straightforward murder case but it's clear that his superiors want him to get in and out as quickly as possible. There is any number of possible suspects and as Dalgliesh is fond to say, the motive for murder is inevitably greed or love.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsAndrew ScottRomola GaraiCharlie CoxSet in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsChristopher LeePatrick MacneeMorgan FairchildThe British government is about to buy the plans to a revolutionary bomb detonator when its plans are stolen and its Austrian inventor murdered. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go to Vienna to track down the plans.
- DirectorSarah HellingsStarsEoin McCarthyKeeley HawesPeter EganWith the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
- DirectorJohn HoughStarsAlison DoodyMichael YorkGeraldine ChaplinLady Caroline Faye (Alison Doody) meets Lord Vane Brecon (Benedict Taylor) and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent, and takes a position in his family castle as a companion to his mother. She discovers that the Brecon family is not only wealthy in land and fortune, but rich in secrets lurking behind the castle walls.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsJohn ThawTom TowndrowVida GarmanHarry Barnett is a failed businessman who used to run a garage until he went bankrupt. He is now living on the island of Rhodes, looking after the villa of a friend, Alan Dysart, a former government minister. After Heather Mallender, a young woman who is staying at Dysart's villa, goes missing, Harry is accused of her murder. He is determined to prove that she is still alive and to discover why she has vanished. He returns to England and, armed only with a set of photographs that she took, retraces her steps. In doing so, he gradually uncovers a conspiracy which implicates Dysart in the murder of Heather's sister.
- DirectorChristopher MenaulStarsEmilia FoxJames PurefoyOliver MilburnA solitary schoolgirl, prone to sudden blackouts after she's stumbled into a murder scene, gets involved with her English teacher. Then, when his wife is also murdered, questions about what's real and what's made up start haunting her.
- DirectorHarry BradbeerStarsMartin KempRichard GriffithsCharlotte RandleDramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.
- DirectorDavid EvansStarsMary-Louise ParkerShawn DoyleSusan LynchThe facts: journalist Zenia Arden is missing, her abandoned car is found with three pints of her blood splattered inside, and one of her fingers severed from her body is found close to the car. From these facts, the authorities believe there is no way she could have survived what looks to be a brutal slaying. Henry Kelly, her police-officer secret boyfriend, believes he will be implicated as the murderer and goes to his old friend John Grismer, an ex-police officer now insurance investigator, to help him uncover what happened to Zenia. John finds that Zenia's three supposedly closest friends--magazine editor Roz Andrews, university history professor Tony Fremont, and yoga instructor Charis White--are all less than sad at Zenia's death and are open about their lack of remorse when John questions them. Apparently, Zenia came unexpectedly and independently into each of their lives, made it great for a while before she did something intentionally to ruin their friendship. As John uncovers some of the information regarding Zenia's relationship with these three women, he finds that the bonds of friendship go deep.
- DirectorJoe AhearneStarsSam CallisChristopher CazenovePhil DavisTony (John Light) works in an auction house, where he is surrounded by many valuable works of art. Enlisting the help of London gangster Brendan (Neil Pearson) and his associates, Tony hatches a plan to steal a priceless Goya painting. Things get complicated when the heist leaves Tony concussed and Brendan with no painting. When Brendan takes Tony to a Harley Street hypnotherapist to try to cure his amnesia and remember what he did with the painting, the hypnotherapist (Susannah Harker) realises she's onto something, and uses her considerable skill to manipulate minds and memories to her own advantage..
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsRonnie MastersonPhyllis RyanFiona O'ShaughnessyDr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope: many of the town's female population seems to have had intimate relations with him. When a new arrival to town becomes involved romantically with Edmund, he decides maybe it was time his wife wasn't around much longer. He puts in place a plan to become free to remarry -- after all he has a cabinet full of lethal (and mostly legal) drugs on hand. But it's an old lover that proves his savior, at least for a short time.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsClive OwenRupert Holliday-EvansClaire SkinnerWhile hiding his own deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the case of a bludgeoned violinist where the key witness is her traumatized young son.
- DirectorDavid DruryStarsStephen TompkinsonOwen TealeSamantha BeckinsaleSchool teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.
- DirectorBen BoltStarsNealson BarryRobert BowmanAmanda BurtonBank employee Laura Tracey (Amanda Burton) places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
- DirectorRobert KnightsStarsKim CattrallGale HansenMacha MérilTwin sisters who are worlds apart in every way become connected by the one man who tears them apart forever.
- DirectorMaurice PhillipsStarsClive OwenRupert Holliday-EvansMark BazeleyA police detective, who hides the fact that he's going blind, investigates a woman with a sleep disorder who wakes up covered in the blood of her fiance.
- DirectorAdrian ShergoldStarsRay WinstoneGary LucyLindsey CoulsonHarry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia....
- DirectorJonas GrimåsStarsClive OwenRupert Holliday-EvansSelina BoyackWhile hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of black youth leader.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsDonald SutherlandMimi KuzykVlasta VranaEccentric scientist Dr. MacLean wants to determine if the afterlife exists by recording the moment the soul leaves a dying body. A terminally ill boy, a psychic girl and an undercover agent Jessica Saunders help him.
- DirectorVic SarinStarsGary BasarabaLarissa LaskinJonathan WhittakerA medical examiner investigates his niece's mysterious death in a car accident.
- DirectorDavid WheatleyStarsWarren ClarkeNeil PearsonRobert DawsWhen their friend Donald unexpectedly drops down dead pub landlord Colin proposes that he and his older friends Oscar, Julian and Vernon take out life insurance policies, with the last one standing taking all the money. Both the pub and Julian's advertising firm are on hard times whilst teacher Oscar, whose marriage has grown stale, has a sexual encounter with precocious pupil Louise. Wrongly believing that Vernon has a heart condition Julian's wife Susy decides to help him on his way with afternoon sex sessions and soon he has acquired a reputation, causing his wife Gaynor to leave him. With Julian bankrupt, Oscar on a life support after Vernon accidentally ran over him, Colin suffering from burns caused by a kitchen fire and a depressed Vernon about to hang himself it seem s unlikely that any of them will survive to claim the pot.
- DirectorRichard LaxtonStarsJohn BoweMel MartinMichael AttwellRoss Poldark returns from war to right wrongs and reunite with the love of his life.
- DirectorIan DenyerStarsJill BuchananRuth ClarsonEtienne DutoyHistorian Lucy Worsley and a team of experts re-stage Victoria and Albert's wedding. It was regarded as the wedding of the century at the time.
- DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsAnn ArisLynda BaronSteven BerkoffThe story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960).
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsJon VoightJason RobardsSammi DavisTrue story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
- DirectorDavid TaylorStarsDan GibsonMatt JamieRanj NagraThis British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.
- DirectorCarl HindmarchStarsLaurence KennedyTilda SwintonEd StoppardDrama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.
- DirectorAdrian MoatStarsSam RockwellGeorge WunderlichPeter CarmichaelAn examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.
- DirectorChristopher SpencerStarsJohn HannahKenneth CranhamFlorian PanznerA dramatization of the notorious World War I torpedoing of the ocean liner, RMS Lusitania.
- DirectorBryn HigginsStarsTim BakerPaul BrightwellNigel CookeInnovative hospital drama that plunges the viewer into the Receiving Room (today's A&E) of the London hospital deep in the teeming East End. The drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern-day counterpart and namesake, "Casualty", but every case and character is true. Focusing on cases, characters, and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurses' Ward Diaries, and intimate memoirs, "Casualty 1906" is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors and nurses among the desperately poor 100 years ago.
- DirectorMichael JenkinsStarsKevin KnapmanChristine TremarcoFrances BarberTwo English children are uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
- DirectorJames KentStarsRoger AllamRoger Ashton-GriffithsCharlotte AspreyMargaret Thatcher's final days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- DirectorStuart UrbanStarsIan RichardsonRosemary LeachIan McNeiceRoyal Marines defend Government House from Argentine invaders during the events that triggered the Falklands War.
- DirectorPeter HoarStarsDominic WestDenis LawsonOliver DimsdaleA historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology
- DirectorJustin HardyStarsToby JonesZoë TapperSophie ThompsonDrama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
- DirectorFerdinand FairfaxStarsRichard BonehillJeremy ChildChristian CloarecSeeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry. Together with Jean Aubrey and her enigmatic servant William, Lady Dona conceives a daring plan to steal a ship right from under the noses of the English authorities. The theft enrages the authorities who make every effort to trap the French Pirate. However, as the noose begins to tighten around the lovers, Lady Dona is faced with the dilemma of duty and children with Sir Harry or freedom and excitement with Jean Aubrey.
- DirectorNick MurphyStarsTerry JonesMarcus du SautoyLeo Jampinjinpa WayneTerry Jones hosts this documentary on the number one. It looks at early evidence of counting, the use of numbers for simple arithmetic in Sumeria, the development of large numbers and their use for engineering in Egypt, the worship of numbers by Pythagoras and the theoretical mathematics of the Archimedes. It also looks at the use of numbers by the Romans, the development of Arabic numerals in India, the discovery of the number zero, the development of algebra in the Islamic world, the decline of Roman numerals in the west, and the development of the binary system.
- DirectorAlberto NegrinStarsBurt LancasterEva Marie SaintRenzo MontagnaniThe story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
- DirectorJustin HardyStarsEd StoppardIan HartBill PatersonIn November 1930, brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler's SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club, killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and, at the suggestion of his boss Rudolf Olden, agrees to subpoena Hitler, who had supposedly renounced violence yet clearly supported the SA, to discredit him as a popular figure. Against the advice of his assistant Margot Furst Hans, prepares his case, even involving Stennes, a rival Nazi to Hitler. At the trial, Hans, the practiced lawyer, runs rings round Hitler, who is frequently unable to answer his questions. The Brown Shirts are convicted, but it is a Pyrrhic victory, for two years later Hitler will become chancellor, Hans will be arrested, and he will die in the Dachau concentration camp.
- DirectorPeter NicholsonStarsHannes HellmannDes McAleerRobert JezekThe Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsAlex JenningsAdam GarciaGeorge AntoniIn the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
- DirectorNeil RawlesStarsRyan BlakelyMeredith CheesbroughSascha ColeFollows Charles Manson's 'Family' member Linda Kasabian, and her story to what when on at Spahn's Movie Ranch and the final days leading up to the grisly 1969 Tate/La Bianca murders.
- DirectorGuy JenkinStarsDamian LewisGreta ScacchiPolly WalkerA satirical look at the fascinating 'secret' TRUE life of disgraced 1980's Tory politician turned bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
- DirectorLeslie WoodheadStarsLaura BushDick CheneyRichard ClarkeLearn first-hand how our nation's key decision makers responded in the face of chaos and catastrophe on 9/11.
- DirectorPeter MolloyStarsChrista RonkeMarianne BeckerMeda MládekWhen the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.
- DirectorNigel LevyStarsBernard HillTim MaltinDon MurphyThe documentary looks at the reasons behind the sinking and lack of rescue of the RMS Titanic, and sees Tim Matlin, author of several books about the Titanic travel to locations across Europe, North American and the Atlantic Ocean to meet experts and perform experiments to test theories.
- DirectorJulian JonesStarsPeter CapaldiMatthew LandrusInside the Mind of Leonardo is based on the artist's private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance. With more than 6,000 pages of handwritten notes and drawings, Da Vinci's private journals are the most comprehensive documents that chronicle the work of the world's most renowned inventor, philosopher, painter and genius. Never before has access been granted to capture these works in 3D HD format. Using this precious collection of writings and drawings to recount Da Vinci's story in his own words, the film re-creates the mindscape and ideas of mankind's greatest polymath. In a powerful and haunting performance, actor Peter Capaldi portrays Leonardo, dramatically narrating passages and monologues from his journals. Capaldi captures the passion of Leonardo's genius, his understanding of the workings of the natural world, his insights on art and life and his inner fears and torments.
- DirectorDollan CannellStarsWayne SmithEnrique EncinosaEnrique OvaresDollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics.
- DirectorSimcha JacoboviciStuart SamuelsStarsNeal GablerR.H. ThomsonJ. HobermanThe history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age.
- DirectorStuart ElliottMark LewisStarsKeith DavidAnas El AkilNayef RashedA detailed documentary telling the complete story of the great Christian Crusades into the Holy Land.