Clive Merrison

Una escritora establece una amistad con los residentes de Guernsey Island tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando decide escribir un libro sobre sus experiencias durante la guerra.

En 1948 Londres sigue medio destrozado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero decidido a que el juego continúe, el Comité Olímpico Británico convence al Primer Ministro de que las Olimpiadas ayudarán a reconstruir el país. Unidos sólo unas semanas antes de la final, Bert Bushnell y Dickie Burnell no sólo presionaron sus límites físicos y emocionales, sino que florecieron sobre las distinciones de clase para convertirse en ganadores de la medalla de oro.

Basada en una popular y aclamadísima obra de teatro londinense, narrra la historia de cinco estudiantes de Sheffield, al norte de Inglaterra, a mediados de los años ochenta.

Documentary that gives background on Trollope's life from childhood, adolescence, adulthood and death.

Drama sobre la historia de la vida de la escritora de Frankenstein. Sus influencias, escritura y vida personal.

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.

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

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

En 1938, una viuda inglesa sin apenas recursos que se encuentra de vacaciones cerca de Florencia, considera la propuesta de matrimonio de un aristócrata entrado en años que acaba de ser nombrado gobernador de Bengala. Inesperadamente, un asesinato la coloca ante el dilema de elegir entre su reputación y sus sentimientos.

Tras quedarse viuda inesperadamente, Trevethyn Grace se encuentra en una situación financiera desesperada, pues hereda enormes deudas que su difunto marido había ido acumulando durante años. Frente a la pérdida de su casa, decide utilizar su talento para la horticultura y trama un plan para cultivar marihuana que puede vender a un precio astronómico, y que supondría la solución a su crisis financiera.

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.

El dolor que siente un fotógrafo tras la desaparición de su joven amada y su necesidad de encontrar respuestas, lo lleva a interesarse por el "Más Allá". Cuando una mujer misteriosa le muestra una fotografía en la que aparecen hadas, la sigue hasta un pequeño pueblo.

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un hombre herido viaja en una caravana por una carretera de Italia, pero su estado es tan grave que se tiene que quedar en un monasterio deshabitado y semiderruido, donde se encarga de cuidarlo Hana, una enfermera canadiense. Su cuerpo está totalmente quemado a consecuencia de un accidente sufrido en África, pero todavía tiene tiempo para contarle la trágica historia de su vida.

Recrea la vida de un grupo de actores de teatro que viven en Liverpool, recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El director de la compañía es Meredith Potter, un hombre tenaz con su trabajo, que exige el máximo de unos actores que dirige con auténtica mano de hierro. Un día aparece una joven ingenua e impresionable, que huye de su monótona vida familiar, solicitando el trabajo de ayudante del director en escena. Es admitida, con lo que se ve atrapada en las intrigas de la compañía de teatro. Stella llama la atención de sus compañeros con sus comentarios llenos de inocencia sobre el amor y el sexo. Con la nueva producción teatral aparece un nuevo personaje, P.L. O'Hara, un ser atractivo y avasallador que concita en torno a él la codicia, la rivalidad y los celos. Stella quedará atrapada en esta red, ya que O'Hara se enamora de ella.

Nueva Zelanda, mediados del siglo XX. La amistad entre dos compañeras de colegio adolescentes es tan intensa y estrecha que despierta el recelo de los padres de una de ellas. Las chicas crean un mundo imaginario y lleno de fantasía en el que se refugian para vivir de espaldas al resto del mundo. Basada en hechos reales.

A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. Macbeth was a cel animation directed by Nikolai Serebryakov

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque multicolour beings who gather in opposing gangs based on which colour of the rainbow they bear; killer cleaning robots prowl the halls, and a secret in the complex's basement poses the greatest threat of all.

When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger and deceit.

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

Cada año, desde que murió su padre, la señorita Moran ha recibido una extraña perla. Cuando es invitada a conocer a su benefactor, pide consejo a Sherlock Holmes. El misterio se complica extraordinariamente y termina con una emocionante persecución por los canales de Londres en busca de un tesoro indio de valor incalculable. (FILMAFFINITY)

Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.

Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In a trance, she sets out on dreamlike journeys in search of freedom and revenge.

Los soviéticos han desarrollado un revolucionario caza, nombre en clave "Firefox". Naturalmente, los ingleses están preocupados por la capacidad del avión para lanzar ataques sorpresa, puesto que se rumorea que es indetectable al radar. Por ello, envían al piloto Mitchell Grant, ex-combatiente de la Guerra de Viertnam, en misión secreta para robar el Firefox.

Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1943. El comandante del campo de concentración de Gensdorff (Max von Sydow), que antes de la guerra había formado parte de la selección alemana de fútbol, se interesa por un un grupo de prisioneros que practican este deporte. Se le ocurre entonces la idea de organizar un partido en el que se enfrenten una selección alemana y una selección formada por prisioneros de guerra. Aunque al principio los aliados rechazan la propuesta, al final aceptan el desafío.

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.

A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.

Un hombre avaricioso y miserable, Ebenezer Scrooge, obligado a enfrentarse con sus fantasmas interiores, personificados en tres espíritus: el espíritu de las navidades pasadas, el espíritu de las navidades futuras. El anciano se dará cuenta de los terribles errores cometidos y del terrible futuro que le espera, por lo que cambiará recuperando la bondad y generosidad de su alma. Al historia tuene el genial acierto de mostrarnos cómo una sociedad cruel puede influir en sus propios ciudadanos, hasta convertirlos en un mero reflejo de sus propias injusticias. Ebezner Scrooge es un reflejo de todos nosotros y nos enseña cómo su pasado ha moldeado su presente, cómo la única salida para vencer su futuro es aceptar las consecuencias de sus actos, y tomar las riendas de su vida para llevarla en la dirección que él de verdad quiere.

Mulvey's readings of the myth of Oedipus and the sphinx are layered atop 360º panning shots of various locales; the protagonist appears in elliptically-edited sequences.

1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.

Celebrated filmmaker Bill Douglas’s early student short follows two men who meet in a cafe on a Southend pier. Glances, body language and very brief snatches of lewd dialogue suggest a pick-up, but the atmosphere soon darkens and events take an unexpected twist.

Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers a band of archaelogists on a secret expedition to unearth the reason for his old enemies' extinction. In the underground shadowy depths, they find the icy tomb. A whole army in hibernation. A threat to no one, if the temperature remains low. But if the traitor in their midst gets his way, things could really heat up.