Bbc Movies

An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.

Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to...

An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced o...

The highway of the title is a 2,000 mile dirt road in Kazakhstan. Along this route, a traveling family circus journeys in their crowded hand-cranked b...

The inside story of the Beach Boys from their formation in 1961 to the present day (2005).

For more than 70 years, the UN has been at the forefront of work to uphold human rights and promote global peace. But what happens when the fixer of t...

Exploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. After 15 years of house arrest in Myanmar, she was celebrated as an icon of democracy, but ten years on, she i...

Bill Clinton, Nicole Scherzinger and members of the Kennedy family reveal how JFK's sister Eunice used sport to change the lives of people with intell...

Jools Holland presents a collection of Amy Winehouse's performances on Later, the Hootenanny and at the Mercury Prize between 2003 and 2007. Winehous...

Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of Victorian novelist George Eliot. Just as Eliot’s novel Middlemarch explored the lives of...

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British cities during the Second World War look bac...

It is estimated that about 1 in 100 people are psychopaths, but although many violent offenders fall into this category it does not mean all psychopat...

Dawn French's acclaimed one-woman show—on the story of her life.

First transmitted in 1967, young couples talk openly about the difference children have made to their marriages and themselves in an age where women's...

Five years since the murder of George Floyd – the police killing that set America on fire with rage and sparked a wave of protests around the world, d...

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of price...

Tamzin Outhwaite stars in Deborah Moggach 's dark two-part drama. On the surface Swindon-based Natalie has it all -good looks, a steady job and a reli...

Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. On...