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Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Directed by Roger Mainwood. With Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Pam Ferris. This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
The Land Girls (1998)
Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset and the experience changes their lives forever.
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher. 1935. A group of elderly British women, who the Italians have named the Scorpioni, have chosen Italy, specifically Florence, as a place to live to blend their proper British sensibilities with their love of Italian art and culture. One of those Scorpioni, Mary Walsh, works as the English secretary for Paolo Innocente, who, in part because of his own wife's adamant refusal, largely neglects his ...
To Kill a King (2003)
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (TV Mini-Series 2005)
Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of working class London life in the 1930s is captured movingly in this beautifully observed and faithful adaptation. In a world of smoky pubs and foggy lamplights, down-at-heel workers and forlorn lovers, the story focuses on The Midnight Bell, a bar off the Euston Road, and observes the impossibility of love between three protagonists.
A Study in Terror (1965)
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6.
The Four Feathers (2002)
A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice.
Cranford (TV Series 2007)
In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Henry VIII (TV Movie 2003)
Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry VIII.
The British Empire in Colour (TV Mini-Series 2002)
The British Empire in Colour is a major three part series that examines the history and experience of the British Empire, form the perspectives of both the rulers and the ruled.
The Relief of Belsen (TV Movie 2007)
In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.
This Sporting Life (1963)
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
The Pillars of the Earth (TV Mini-Series 2010)
Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Residents of a part of London declare independence, when they discover an old treaty. This leads to the need for a 'Passport to Pimlico'. Clearly an allegory on the Berlin Blockade Crisis.
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Man in the White Suit
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Kes (1969)
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
The Duchess (2008)
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Richard III (1995)
Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr.. The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series 2003– )
Drama-documentary series which describes some of the key technological achievements of the industrial age.
The Young Victoria (2009)
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Jack the Ripper (TV Series 1988– )
A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the queen.
Murder by Decree (1979)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
A Passage to India (1984)
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (TV Movie 2004)
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
Black Death (2010)
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
North & South (TV Mini-Series 2004)
North and South is a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
When the Wind Blows (1986)
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
Four Lions (2010) - IMDb
Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
In the Loop (2009) - IMDb
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State
Time After Time (1979)
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

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