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- The 1960s lives and adventures of the police constabulary, medical staff, and residents of Ashfordly and Aidensfield.
- Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.
- A pious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.
- Set in the 1960s, this British medical drama follows the staff and patients of St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital.
- What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute-player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.
- The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.
- An assassin helps a young woman avenge the death of her family.
- A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
- A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.
- Two couples - each comprising a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough.
- The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
- Tom Parfitt fakes an injury in order to escape from his monotonous lifestyle and head to a care centre. However, upon his arrival, the staff experiences several strange instances, including a murder.
- Dramatisation 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.
- It is inspired by the journey of Jhulan Goswami as she moves up the ladder despite the problems created by misogynistic politics to fulfill her dream of playing cricket for India
- The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.
- A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears, he travels down to London to search for her, only to discover that she has three identities, dancer, dominatrix, and con woman. But which one is the real Miranda?
- Follow the lives of a group of residents at a seaside town in North Yorkshire.
- John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatization.
- Widower Guy is transferred to an English coastal town, where he joins an amateur operatic society to "meet people" and "have fun".
- Neil is at his bachelor party. A stripper called Pandora performs her dance and Neil's mates load him on a train as a last gag. Neil awakes on the train, Pandora's there and at the stop where his mates are to pick him up, the train doesn't stop. Neil and Pandora walk around one of Northern England's premier seaside towns as he frets over the utter chaos his marriage day has turned out to be and tries to get back. All the while, Pandora is going on carnival rides and just generally moping around listening to Abba's Dancing Queen.
- Charlie and his family move from London to run a Bed-and-Breakfast by the sea. Charlie and his friends Ben and Alison always want to do the right thing, but somehow they just keep getting into trouble.
- After their home life is turned upside down, three children and the family's donkeys escape across the backbone of Northern England, confronting both the harsh landscapes and what it means to be siblings.
- Sitcom about PC Penrose, 'Rosie' to his friends, a police officer in the fictitious Yorkshire town of Ravensbay.
- Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
- Louis Theroux spends some time with the eccentric broadcaster and charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile and attempts to get behind the public persona.
- An eccentric seaman puts together an equally eccentric crew with the idea of sailing from northern England to the Artic along the path of Captain Scoresby, a 1791 sea captain.
- When an execution is sanctioned in the UK for the first time in almost 50 years, it soon becomes a media circus. The television rights are sold, and it becomes the worlds biggest reality TV show, re-branded as X-Day.
- 'The Other Child' is an adaptation of the Charlotte Link novel, set in both modern day and war-time Scarborough. When twelve year old Fiona Barnes is evacuated from London during the Blitz, she ends up on a remote farm in Scarborough where she meets, and falls in love with, the idealistic and patriotic son of her host family; Chad Beckett. Fiona is joined on the farm by a young autistic boy, Brian Sommerville, who has been orphaned in the bombing of London. Forming a strong emotional attachment to Fiona, Brian is seen as little more than irritant by Fiona and Chad as their love blossoms, but is cared for by Mrs Beckett until her death through illness. With Chad finally being drafted to fight abroad, and Fiona briefly at home in London visiting her Mother, Brian is allowed to leave the relative safety of the farm to live, and work, in squalor at a neighbouring farm owned by a notoriously abusive and uncaring McBright. Upon learning of Brian's fate, Fiona and Chad do nothing to rescue him - a decision which drives them apart through guilt and which will haunt them both throughout their lives. When events in the modern day threaten to have far reaching consequences for their children - Old Fiona and Chad are thrown together again. Chad, now seemingly resigned to his fate, sits mute and immobile whilst Fiona attempts to avoid the mistakes of their past
- Documentary about 10 British teen boys who had several run ins with law enforcement. They spend time in an old prison to see what prison life would be like in a real prison. Similar to the U.S. "Scared Straght" program.
- When his father's World War II war medal is posted to him, Henry decides to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. But is Henry prepared for the truth?
- The Bronte siblings turn to writing after their mother's death. Their novels, published under male names, become famous worldwide. They struggle to balance fame and fortune with their privacy.
- Filmed in super 16mm widescreen format JAMES HERRIOT'S YORKSHIRE features the breathtaking scenery of Wensleydale, Swaledale, Coverdale, Thirsk, Sutton Bank, Captain Cook country, Scarborough, Robin Hood's Bay, York and Harrogate as well as featuring the people and animals so often associated with Herriot's novels. " Over the years I have received literally thousands of letters from readers of my books from all over the world. The same phrase has recurred; I wish I could see the places you write about - if this film can reach those people then it will give them a glimpse of the countryside where I have found so many of the good things of life. The scenes and photography are exquisite and Chris's commentary and appearance superb. The film was a constant joy to watch
- A boy named Josh goes on a journey to discover what caused the mysterious Apocalypse.
- Uncle Art tells the story of the man behind some of the most memorable gaming music of the 80's and 90's - Starglider, Carrier Command, Beneath a Steel Sky, After Burner and more. Dave Lowe broke technological boundaries of the period and inspired legions of gamers worldwide with his music.
- A documentary about the Flithergirls, a generation of woman whose lives revolved around collecting 'flithers' (limpets) for use in the North Yorkshire fishing industry.
- Two female kidnappers find themselves dragged further and further into a complex mystery, fuelled by paranoia. Everything starts to spiral out of control, as one of them suspects there is something wrong in paradise.
- Eileen and her Ghost Hunting team have traveled to stay the night in a haunted hotel by the sea to investigate its spooky happenings. Things take a turn for the worse when they meet the hotels chambermaid.
- Alex and Jesse, ex lovers, re-unite by chance one night and learn of all the changes that have occurred in their time apart. A character drama exploring the lasting intimacy, emotions and memories from an unraveled relationship.
- A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- Dead dogs, foetus burgers and Nazi clown-chefs; something smells fishy in London; and for once it's not Glover's pants. Detective Danny Glover, Scarborough Police's premier dog-napping-ring buster and general fat bastard, arrives in London to help the clinically psychotic Detective Sonny Boy with a little problem: Who is butchering London's dogs? The answer seems obvious at first, it must be Burger Priest; the Pope's Neo-Nazi clown-chef empire: home of the 'Amen with Cheese', a rancid burger made of fingernails, turds and aborted foetii; just don't ask what goes into their 'Nunion Rings'! Detectives Glover and Sonny Boy engage on a covert mission to uncover Burger Priest's dark secret; but even they are unprepared for the true horror and depth of the fast food franchise's depravity. Assisted by Feety, a heroin-addicted foetus, and Ellen Mellon, a New York reporter who also happens to be an animated ventriloquist's doll, they must reveal the Pope's evil plan and shut down Burger Priest for good. Along the way they learn the truth behind London's drug-addled pregnant teenagers and come face to face with the reality of their own sordid addictions. If this isn't enough, there's a third force at work. Something is stalking and killing Burger Priest's Nazi clown-chef army. Something that crawled out of the ocean, hell bent on revenge. A creature so terrifying men dare not speak its name; the semi-evolved shark terror known only as: THE EVOLVED. If only God existed, maybe he could help you.
- A successful life coach is trying to live the 'perfect' life. But can he keep hiding from the dark secrets of his past?
- Based on Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", Reading Gaol focuses on Oscar Wilde's time in prison after being convicted of "gross indecency" for his relationship with lover Alfred Douglas. As his body and spirit break under the cruelty of prison life, and the people closest to him grow further apart, he only finds refuge in his writing.
- Band reunites after 20 years, becoming involved with not only each others lives, but others who help change their outlooks.
- Stranded in the mysterious town of Ravenscar, Noah finds himself trapped between saving the helpless and becoming one of them.
- In the United Kingdom, A young nurse was bitten by a Vampire, and becomes a vampire. Suddenly, a group of vampire hunters are going to kill all vampires.
- In 2011, artist Patrick Brill (known creatively as Bob and Roberta Smith) made waves in the art world with Letter to Michael Gove, an oversized painted-word response to the former Education Secretary's proposed eradication of art from the British school syllabus. In his feature film Art Party, Smith builds on his 2011 protest with a mix of performance, interviews and imagined scenes, en route to the 2013 Art Party Conference, where he and other speakers championed the importance of art and its place in the education system. Part documentary, part road movie and part political fantasy, Art Party ultimately asks "how do you tell one man he's got it wrong?" This unique and provocative film stars John Voce as Michael Grove MP and Julia Rayner as his parliamentary aid, featuring work and comment by artists as diverse as Cornelia Parker, John Smith, Haroon Mirza, Jeremy Deller and Jessica Voorsanger. With original music by Flameproof Moth, the Ken Ardley Playboys and The Fucks.
- An offbeat drama following phone sex worker Deloris Double D accompany mourning father Murray Williams as he attempts to slay the sea monster he believes took his daughter. Starring Hester Ruoff and Ross Newell.