Tim Pigott-Smith

Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of ...

Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one ...

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the ...

Prince Charles’ accession to the throne following the Queen’s death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political ...

Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently ...

When Mr. Whicher, a retired policeman, helps a country lady to find her niece, he is drawn into a disturbing case of murder which brings him up ...

An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and ...

This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out ...

In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who ...

Drama about journalist Heather Brooke’s fight for the disclosure of MPs’ expenses.

Profile of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of six men in Florida over the course of a ...

The story of Austrian, Johann “Jack” Unterweger (1950-1994), who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in ...

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the ...

Powerful myths and misconceptions have shaped our understanding of the moment which changed the course of WW2 – the evacuation at Dunkirk ...

The Private Life of Samuel Pepys is a 2003 British comedy television film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon and ...

In 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. With speculative dramatizations of various ...

One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK’s transport system to a halt.

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia, and the U.S. tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict. Charts the evolution of ...

In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world’s first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to ...

A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, filled with interviews with the director, the ...

Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain’s gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German ...

The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An ...

How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders ...

Tim Piggot-Smith investigates the famous sleuth of 221b Baker Street.

Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the ...

The story of the 1983 America’s Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from ...

This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody ...

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an “expert”, a real murder occurs.