Michael Pennington

A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray’s centenary year. The film covers ...

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic ...

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Haunted by memories of a patient’s death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ...

Colosseum: Rome’s Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator’s Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of ...

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British ...

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we ...

A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.

A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagines the two 19th century impressionist ...

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and ...

Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson’s female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former ...

In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine ...

As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his ...

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town ...

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, ...

The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so ...

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason