Samuel West

Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.

Tubular Bells, one of the iconic musical works of the 20th century, and the highest selling instrumental album of all time, is approaching its 50th anniversary. To mark this, an epic new stage production has been commissioned that re-invents the album with an incredible cinematic score, live musicians and performers.

A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no accident.

En 1962, en Inglaterra, una joven pareja encuentra su romance idílico colisionando con los problemas de la libertad sexual y la presión social, lo que lleva a una noche de bodas incómoda y fatídica.

En mayo de 1940 el destino de Europa occidental depende del primer ministro británico Winston Churchill, quien debe decidir si negociar con Adolf Hitler o luchar sabiendo que podría significar una derrota humillante para Gran Bretaña y su imperio.

An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem 'All The World's a Stage' narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West.

Cuenta la historia de las sufragistas inglesas en los albores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La mayoría de estas mujeres no venían de clases altas, sino que eran mujeres trabajadoras que veían cómo sus protestas pacíficas no servían para nada. Radicalizadas y volviendo su lucha cada vez más violenta, estaban dispuestas a perderlo todo en su búsqueda incansable de la igualdad: sus trabajos, sus casas, sus hijos y sus vidas. Esta es la historia de Maud (Carey Mulligan), una de estas mujeres, y de su lucha por la dignidad y la de sus compañeras.

Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England had ever done before. He took a country salvaged by his father from the wreck of civil war and set over it a single, sovereign ruler. By the end of his reign the power of the Tudor.

Relato del juicio televisado del exoficial nazi Adolf Eichmann que tuvo lugar en Jerusalén en el año 1961. Eichmann fue ahorcado en 1962 después de haber sido declarado culpable de crímenes contra la humanidad. Descrito como "el juicio del siglo”, este evento se mostró en la televisión de 37 países y fue la primera vez que el horror de los campos de concentración era relatado en directo por sus víctimas... "The Eichmann Show" es uno de los proyectos encargados por la BBC para conmemorar el 70 aniversario de la liberación del campo de concentración nazi de Auschwitz.

Alistair Ryle y Miles Richards son dos estudiantes de primer año de la universidad de Oxford. A pesar de que los dos jóvenes son muy diferentes, ambos deciden unirse al famoso 'Riot Club', una sociedad exclusiva y muy selectiva para los hijos más privilegiados de Gran Bretaña, que tiene muy mala reputación, donde las cenas en restaurantes caros y el posterior destrozo de los mismos están entre las actividades favoritas de sus selectos miembros. Pero todo se enreda cuando los jovenes, novatos en el privilegiado club, comienzan a meterse en líos que dan lugar a muchos problemas que les complicaran su recién estrenada vida en la universidad...

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.

Experts examine the ruins and relics hidden under London. Among them, a Roman amphitheater, ditches for victims of the black plague, bomb shelters and more.

This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Faberge name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day, spanning one hundred and fifty years of turbulent history, romance, artistic development and commercial exploitation. From the bejewel led Easter eggs of the Romanov Tsarinas to the 1970s allure of 'Brut by Faberge' aftershave, and from the Russian revolution to today's high-fashion glitz in New York and London, the film explores a multi-faceted world that began with one man: the prodigiously talented Peter Carl Faberge, Court Jeweler of St Petersburg. Shot at locations across Russia, Europe and USA (including the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), the film features interview contributions from the world's foremost Faberge authorities, as well as personal reminiscences from Faberge family members.

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is its significance? And which forces inspired its creators? Now a group of international archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna believe that a new state-of-the-art approach is the key to unlocking Stonehenge's secrets. For four years the team have surveyed and mapped every monument, both visible and invisible, across ten square kilometres of the sacred landscape to create the most complete digital picture of Stonehenge and the surrounding area over millennia. Operation Stonehenge takes the viewer on a prehistoric journey from 8000BC to 2500BC as the scientists uncover the very origins of Stonehenge, learning why this landscape is sacred, preserved and has been revered by following generations.

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000 years of existence.

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.

The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.

El proyecto, además de contar la historia de Wikileaks desde sus inicios, incluye declaraciones del propio Assange, de trabajadores del diario «The Guardian» y otros periódicos, así como de extrabajadores de la organización. Uno de los motivos de la denuncia de Assange contra Channel 4 es la aparición. dentro del documental, de imágenes en las que el australiano baila en un club nocturno de Reykjavic, Islandia (imágenes que, por otra parte, ya estaban colgadas en internet). «Supone una infracción injustificable de mi intimidad», declaró.

Crónica del romance entre el presidente de los Estados Unidos Franklin D. Rooselvelt y su prima Margaret Stuckley. La historia se centra en un fin de semana de junio de 1939, durante el cual el rey de Inglaterra Jorge VI visitó a Roosevelt en su casa del Norte de Nueva York. Era la primera visita de un miembro de la Casa Real británica a los Estados Unidos.

Find out what went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago.

Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story of the first man to set foot on the moon. Drawing heavily on unbroadcast archive footage and the unique perspectives of the contributors, this is an exclusive account of Neil Armstrong's extraordinary life story. From his childhood during America's Great Depression to the heady days of the space programme, his historic first step on the Moon and his famously private later life. Seen through the eyes of those who were with him, the film explores the man behind the myth, a man who was very much a product of his time. The film goes beyond his days as an astronaut and shows that his life after the flight of Apollo 11 was, in many ways equally challenging, as Armstrong came to terms with life outside NASA and the relentless demands of fame until his death in August 2012.

This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying King Edward VIII.

Miniserie de TV. 4 episodios. Adaptación de la novela de William Boyd, "Any Human Heart". Narra la vida del novelista Logan Mountstuart, que transcurre en el Paris de los años veinte, en el Nueva York de los años cincuenta y en el Lodres de los ochenta. Durante su camino, se topará con personalidades como Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming o los Duques de Windsor...

Sir Gregory es un guerrero al mando de un grupo de hombres, cansado después de muchas batallas a lo largo varios años, que se dirige junto a sus hombres hacia el hogar.Llevan consigo varias reliquias conseguidas en las victorias en los territorios conquistados. Sin embargo, una de las reliquias de origen santo, encierra en ella el poder de un sanguinario demonio que es liberado.Ahora, los guerreros deben enfrentarse a este mal liberado y evitar que se propague por el mundo.

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find’. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies – it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe. Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong? .

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.

1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer tells the story of a philosopher and physician who promoted peace during the Cold War, built a hospital in what is now Gabon and proved stronger than the CIA.

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.

Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future Emperor's rise to power after the death of his father, becoming King of Qin at the age of thirteen. Mostly told through the use of re-enactments, the story continues to the present day and the discovery of the Emperor's tomb and terracotta army in 1974.

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.

Documentary on the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908.

El joven herrero Sigfrido no sabe que es el heredero de un reino invadido, y se hace popular entre su gente por acabar con su mayor enemigo, el dragón Fafnir. Sigfrido ignora la maldición que pesa sobre la recompensa, un enorme tesoro, que ahora pone en peligro su amor por la hermosa reina guerrera escandinava, Brunilda

Siglo XIX. En medio de los montes de los Cárpatos está la misteriosa y mítica Transilvania, donde el mal siempre está presente, el peligro aparece cuando el sol se pone... y donde toman forma los monstruos que habitan las pesadillas de los hombres.

Perdido en un mar de manchas, el pequeño Patch quiere destacar sobre los demás cachorros y sueña con convertirse en un perro "único en su especie" como su estrella favorita de televisión, Relámpago. Cuando Patch se separa accidentalmente de su familia, tiene la oportunidad de conocer a su héroe y milagrosamente, convertirse en su socio en la vida real. Mientras, Cruella se ha convertido en mecenas de un excéntrico artista cuya pintura se compone de juegos de manchas. Para inspirarle, Cruella secuestra a todos los cachorros de Dálmatas. Juntos Patch y Relámpago planean rescate y Patch descubre que realmente es un perro único.

Gran Bretaña. Durante los 40 años que duró el apasionado e inspirador matrimonio entre Iris Murdoch y John Bayley, el concepto de amor conyugal alcanzó su más alto y completo significado. Juntos pasaron la vida fundiendo sus personalidades, carreras y aspiraciones. El suyo fue uno de los grandes amores literarios del siglo, pero también fue la prueba de que el amor puede superar los tragos más amargos e inesperados de la vida. Frecuentemente descrita como "la mujer más brillante de Inglaterra", la escritora Iris Murdoch fue una figura fundamental y un icono para su generación. Desde sus días como alumna de Oxford, donde cautivó a todo el mundo con su abierto talante, casi libertino, pasando por su carrera como filósofa y novelista, Iris fue una adelantada a su tiempo.

Muestra la destructiva relación entre Samuel Taylor Coleridge y William Wordsworth, dos extraordinarios poetas ingleses, en plena Revolución Francesa (finales del XVIII).

Maya y Rosa son dos hermanas mexicanas que trabajan, en condiciones de explotación, como limpiadoras en un edificio de oficinas del centro de Los Ángeles. Un encuentro con Sam, un apasionado activista norteamericano, cambiará sus vidas. Gracias a Sam, toman conciencia de su situación laboral y emprenden una campaña de lucha por sus derechos, pero corren el riesgo de perder su trabajo y de ser expulsadas del país.

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But who is this man ? And why does he live in the middle of nowhere ? Shane is about to learn something he won't forget.

La historia se centra en William, propietario de una tienda de libros en el popular barrio londinense de Notting Hill, y Anna Scott, la estrella más rutilante del firmamento cinematográfico. Desde el momento en que la actriz entra en la tienda, William se embarca en un cortejo complicado, para el cual cuenta con la inestimable ayuda de sus inseparables amigos, entre los que destaca su compañero de piso el singular Spike, que observa con asombro e incredulidad cómo el bueno de William tiene un romance con una mujer inalcanzable para cualquier otro ser humano.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to make the most catastrophic mistake of World War II? This acclaimed four-part series investigates what led to the largest military operation in history - and the bloodiest. Assisted by leading historians and granted unique access to Eastern film archives and to both Soviet and German participants, War of the Century is the definitive series on a war that shaped the borders and attitudes of Europe for the second half of the 20th Century.

In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from Vancouver to remote Prince Rupert for their father's funeral. Rupert is a stuffy lawyer who has emigrated to Canada, while Dale ekes out a living dealing drugs. Along the way, they find themselves stranded in a commune where their father once lived, populated by a pack of half hippie/half redneck dropouts who like to get high on mushrooms and drive trucks. George Wendt appears in a supporting role.

Parodia del cine británico de época, al estilo del de James Ivory (que a propósito es el apellido de la familia protagonista de la historia).

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective on the season.

En el Londres victoriano, un policía de clase humilde, tiene que desenmascarar los crímenes de prostitutas que ha cometido un asesino al que llaman Jack el destripador. El inspector Hansen, el encargado de evitar que mueran más mujeres, sospecha que el criminal pertenece a la aristocracia y tendrá graves dificultades para que sus investigaciones sean tomadas en serio.

At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.

Una joven condesa rusa escapa de la revolución de 1917 y, a pesar de todas las penurias, logra construir una nueva vida en América.

Una fría tarde de invierno, el escritor homosexual Lytton Strachey viaja a la Costa Sur para visitar a Vanessa Bell y a su marido Clive. Ya en casa, Lytton queda deslumbrado con una figura adolescente y andrógina que ve en el jardín. Se trata de Dora Carrington, una pintora, que aparece en los círculos artísticos británicos durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Año 1813, Inglaterra. La joven Anne Elliot, de 29 años, cuya edad "adecuada" para contraer matrimonio ha pasado, vive con su opresivo y vanidoso padre Sir Walter Elliot de Kellynch Hall, y su hermana mayor Elizabeth. Ocho años antes fue persuadida por Lady Russell, íntima amiga de su difunta madre, para que renunciara a su amor por un oficial de la marina de posición social inferior y con poco futuro, el capitán Wentworth. Sin embargo, después de todos esos años éste aparece nuevamente en su círculo social, ascendido a capitán, y enriquecido por la guerra.

Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.

Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.

Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising have gradually dwindled, and for Cuckoo the villa has become a prison. Then an attractive young couple arrive, resurrecting the tensions and sexual rivalry between Archie and Cuckoo, and forcing all four to learn about themselves.

Finales del siglo XIX. Margaret Schlegel y su hermana Helen son dos mujeres cultas y emancipadas para la época en que viven. Su relación con la convencional familia Wilcox acaba en enemistad. Sin embargo, pasado cierto tiempo, se establece una estrecha relación entre Margaret y la señora Ruth Wilcox, quien, para disgusto de su familia, decide nombrar heredera de su mansión a la mayor de las Schlegel.

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.

Dos jóvenes de orígenes muy diferentes se hacen amigos en el Stuttgart de 1933. Sin embargo, no se dan cuenta de lo diferentes que son hasta mucho más tarde, ya que uno es hijo de un médico judío acomodado y el otro hijo de un aristócrata alemán. Después de ese verano y la elección de Hitler, las cosas cambian a medida que el antisemitismo gana en fervor. Después de que el núcleo de la película trata sobre esa época, la película pasa al presente y el hombre judío ahora regresa a la casa de su infancia y busca a su viejo amigo con algunas sorpresas.

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the last lighthouse keeper prepares for his final trip ashore: and an actor returns to the stage to play his part in a Greek myth.