Jill Balcon

This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions

Una dramatización, en estilo teatral moderno, de la vida y el pensamiento del filósofo educado en Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, nacido en Viena, cuyo interés principal era la naturaleza y los límites del lenguaje. Una serie de bocetos representan el desarrollo de su vida desde la infancia, a través de la era de la Primera Guerra Mundial, hasta su eventual cátedra de Cambridge y su asociación con Bertrand Russell y John Maynard Keynes. El énfasis en estos bocetos está en la exposición de las ideas de Wittgenstein, un homosexual, y un pensador intuitivo, caprichoso, orgulloso y perfeccionista generalmente considerado como un genio.

Inglaterra, siglo XIV. El rey Eduardo II se enamora de Piers Gaveston, un joven de origen humilde, a quien honra con favores y títulos de nobleza. La fría y celosa reina Isabella conspira con el malvado Mortimer para deshacerse de Gaveston, derrocar a su marido y tomar el poder…

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?

This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.

Frances es una reputada entomóloga que, debido a sus grandes conocimientos sobre virus y bacterias, es requerida por el servicio secreto británico para realizar una peligrosa misión. Debe viajar a un país imaginario de los Balcanes e investigar un nuevo tipo de armas bacteriológicas que supuestamente está desarrollando el enemigo.

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

Después de haberse casado por razones de estado con el heredero del trono inglés, el futuro Jorge I, Sophie Dorotea busca el amor verdadero.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.