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Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in...

Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander...

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of...

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

10/10/88 in London England at the Hammersmith Odeon

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of...

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family...

Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real...

A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of...

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...

Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the...

In the documentary, the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the War of Independence and the developments in...

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than...

The future. Criminals serve prison sentences before they commit their crimes. Prisons are on new planets that are being colonised. After serving...

In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern...

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is...

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a...