Samuel West

Merchant Ivory (2024)

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer R ...

The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall) (2022)

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 ...

Gatecrash (2020)

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. ...

The Gentlemen (2020)

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from un ...

On Chesil Beach (2018)

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. ...

Darkest Hour (2017)

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. ...

All the world's a stage (2016)

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

Suffragette (2015)

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. ...

Inside the Court of Henry VIII (2015)

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 ...

The Eichmann Show (2015)

The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who ...

The Riot Club (2014)

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening. ...

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day (2014)

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. ...

Secrets of Underground London (2014)

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. ...

Faberge: A Life of Its Own (2014)

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 ...

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (2014)

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 ...

Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy (2013)

Secrets of the Tower of London (2013)

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. ...

Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court (2013)

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. ...

Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson (2012)

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

Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies (2012)

Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently hot tempered, it documents history in ...

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York. ...

Secrets of the Manor House (2012)

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

First Man on the Moon (2012)

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 exclus ...

Hitler's Children (2011)

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that indelibly associates them with one of the greatest abominat ...

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters (2011)

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. ...

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel (2011)

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which Britain changed for ever. For ten years they faced each other in the House of Commons, and swapped in and out of ...

Dark Relic (2010)

1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. ...

BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? (2010)

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 pheno ...

Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)

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 ...

Albert Schweitzer (2009)

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 wh ...

The Blood of the Rose (2009)

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006. ...

The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India (2009)

Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to the decline after independence. ...

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008)

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. ...

Random Quest (2006)

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

The First Emperor (2006)

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 ...

Einstein's Big Idea (2005)

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 ...

After the War: Conquering Germany (2005)

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of the events that followed. 1945: Germany is beaten but the struggle for the country's soul is only just beginning. First-hand testimony re-creates the experi ...

Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich (2005)

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

Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To sav ...

Van Helsing (2004)

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-b ...

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)

Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign. ...

Iris (2001)

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. ...

Pandaemonium (2001)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relatio ...

Nero's Golden House (2001)

Bread and Roses (2000)

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor c ...

Complicity (2000)

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 Ca ...

Longitude (2000)

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

Runt (1999)

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 ...

In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence (1999)

Documentary from the UK's Channel 4 investigating the death of INXS lead vocalist Michael Hutchence, which exclusively revealed information presented to the coroner in a police report which had not been made public at the official hearing - and explores th ...

Notting Hill (1999)

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds. ...

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)

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

War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin (1999)

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 Dance of Shiva (1998)

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. ...

Rupert's Land (1998)

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 Ca ...

Stiff Upper Lips (1998)

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many ...

I Hate Christmas Too (1997)

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. ...

The Ripper (1997)

It is 1888, and London is in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in history. Under extreme pressure from the Royal family, the head of Scotland Yard assigns its top man to the grisly case. ...

Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America. ...

Jane Eyre (1996)

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in f ...

Heavy Weather (1995)

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 ...

Carrington (1995)

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventual ...

Persuasion (1995)

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts. ...

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995)

When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley. ...

A Feast at Midnight (1994)

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

A Breed of Heroes (1994)

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. ...

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993)

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. ...

The Maitlands (1993)

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

Archipel (1993)

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. ...

Voices in the Garden (1993)

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 arriv ...

Howards End (1992)

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wi ...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)

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 ...

Reunion (1989)

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time ...

Frankie and Johnnie (1986)

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 ...