A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.

No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to…

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but…

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far…

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione…

Walter Pinner (Tony Hancock) is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife (Sylvia Sims), who…

A young boy who lives in an old folks’ home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing…

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression….

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning…

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife’s birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a…

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children’s film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and…

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a…

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving…

A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband’s chips and egg. When…

During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year’s eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey…

In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr is on the trail to success. Along with his observe profitable circumstances and a loving marriage to his spouse, Farr’s profession and private…

A gaggle of military personnel and nurses try a harmful and arduous trek throughout the deserts of North Africa in the course of the second world conflict. The chief of…

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse on the interplay between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair throughout their battle, following the loss of life of…