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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...
Doctor Zhivago
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...
The Movie Orgy
The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a...
Dragonslayer
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
Frankenstein: The True Story
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
The Four Feathers
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...
Exodus
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space...
Things to Come
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public,...
The Man in the Iron Mask
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their...
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he...
Woman of Straw
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...
Oh! What a Lovely War
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the...
Witness for the Prosecution
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...
The Fallen Idol
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...
Battle of Britain
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's...
Anna Karenina
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but...
Our Man in Havana
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...
The Bed Sitting Room
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death,...
The Ghoul
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his...
Give My Regards to Broad Street
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...
The Heiress
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...
Khartoum
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...
A Doll's House
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
O Lucky Man!
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've...
Time Bandits
Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife,...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
Richard III
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...
Q Planes
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
The Divorce of Lady X
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
The Wrong Box
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat...
The Day Will Dawn
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...
The King of Paris
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic...
Tales from the Crypt
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to...
The Looking Glass War
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...
The Lion Has Wings
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...
Moscow in Madrid
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
The Sound Barrier
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to...
The 300 Spartans
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...
School for Secrets
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...
The Citadel
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
On the Night of the Fire
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...
Bulldog Jack
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...
Outcast of the Islands
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
The Holly and the Ivy
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Thunder in the City
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...
The Silver Fleet
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
Bees on the Boat-Deck
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...
South Riding
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...
Hedda Gabler
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father...
Smiley
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas...
Charlie Muffin
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate...
Oscar Wilde
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...
No Man's Land
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Eagle in a Cage
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Midas Run
World War II propaganda film.
The Volunteer
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...
Java Head
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Invitation to the Wedding
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...
Twelfth Night
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Home at Seven
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Home
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy...
Rollerball
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...
Smith
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
Watership Down
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Lady Caroline Lamb
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Upon This Rock
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young...
The Passionate Stranger
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...
Dreyfus
Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
Johnson Over Jordan
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...
David Copperfield
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur....
Chimes at Midnight
Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the...
Cricket
Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."
Come Saturday
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Heart to Heart
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
Eagles of the Fleet
Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
Directed by William Wyler
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...
Friday the Thirteenth
Robert Powell stars in the epic 1977 drama chronicling the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. With Laurence Olivier, James Earl...
Jesus Of Nazareth