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Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
IMDb: 7.4
75

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and…

Endgame

Endgame

Endgame
IMDb: 6.2
109

The time is the late ’80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Guantanamero

Guantanamero

Guantanamero
IMDb: 4.9
89

After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They’ll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local Cuban, takes Ali to…

The History of Love

The History of Love

The History of Love
IMDb: 6.3
134

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
IMDb: 6.9
109

The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Genre: Drama
Basil

Basil

Basil
IMDb: 5.9
113

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man
IMDb: 6.9
100

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich
IMDb: 7.3
323

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer’s own monograph of the same…

Richard II

Richard II

Richard II
IMDb: 8
157

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is…

Genre: Drama, History
Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected
TMDb: 6.675
25,30 min

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs
IMDb: 6
96

Burt Reynolds stars as Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a…

Genre: Comedy
Joe Maddison’s War

Joe Maddison’s War

Joe Maddison’s War
IMDb: 7
85

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval…

Genre: Drama, War
Secret Knowledge

Secret Knowledge

Secret Knowledge
IMDb: N/A
N/A

In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Documentary
The Long Firm

The Long Firm

The Long Firm
TMDb: 7.4
60 min

The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.

Status: Ended
Genre: Crime, Drama
Greatest Events of World War II In Colour

Greatest Events of World War II In Colour

Greatest Events of World War II In Colour
TMDb: 8.6
50 min

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
IMDb: 7.2
31

A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film…

Vicious

Vicious

Vicious
TMDb: 7.9
22 min

Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax
TMDb: 7.4
60 min

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Titanic: Blood and Steel

Titanic: Blood and Steel

Titanic: Blood and Steel
TMDb: 7.5
60 min

Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Strings

Strings

Strings
IMDb: 7
88

Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he…

Up at the Villa

Up at the Villa

Up at the Villa
IMDb: 6
115

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers
IMDb: 5.3
84

Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
IMDb: 6.4
165

Laurence Olivier’s film of Chekhov’s play.

Genre: Drama
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
TMDb: 6.8
N/A

The Doctor, a time-traveling alien explorer, is sent by his people, the Time Lords, to liberate a small town in England from the tyrannical rule of a race of alien…

Status: Ended
My Week With Marilyn

My Week With Marilyn

My Week With Marilyn
IMDb: 6.9
99

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Come Away

Come Away

Come Away
IMDb: 5.8
94

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their…

Ironclad

Ironclad

Ironclad
IMDb: 6.1
121

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the…

Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco
IMDb: 5.7
103

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Effie Gray

Effie Gray

Effie Gray
IMDb: 6
85

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Genre: Drama
The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech
IMDb: 8
118

The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George (‘Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne….

Genre: Drama, History
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
IMDb: 6.5
90

Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

Genre: Drama
Henry V

Henry V

Henry V
IMDb: 7.5
137

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Odessa File

The Odessa File

The Odessa File
IMDb: 7
130

After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cadfael

Cadfael

Cadfael
TMDb: 7.4
50,75 min

Cadfael is the name given to the TV series of The Cadfael Chronicles adaptations produced by British television company ITV Central between 1994 and 1998. The series was broadcast on…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
IMDb: 4.2
102

The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.

Genre: Drama, History
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
IMDb: 5.2
92

Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to “miserable, cold, wet Britain” where…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet
IMDb: 7.7
242

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer… his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Genre: Drama
Othello

Othello

Othello
IMDb: 7.1
165

The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.

Genre: Drama
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit
IMDb: 7.3
357

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose…

Genre: Drama
Enigma

Enigma

Enigma
IMDb: 6
122

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain…