Cast: Brian Blessed

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Sian Phillips · John Hurt · George Baker

Synopsis This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Emperor. An aging Claudius...

Direction Richard Curtis · Rowan Atkinson · Martin Shardlow · Geoff Posner

Cast Rowan Atkinson · Stephen Frost · Tim McInnerny · Tony Robinson

Synopsis TV Series (1983-1989). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Derek Jacobi · Kate Winslet · Julie Christie

Synopsis When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father as a ghost, his suspicions are confirmed and Hamlet falls...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Emma Thompson · Robert Sean Leonard · Denzel Washington

Synopsis When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the village of Messina, romance, gaiety, and suspicion abound. The men have returned...

Direction James Clavell

Cast Michael Caine · Omar Sharif · Florinda Bolkan · Nigel Davenport

Synopsis Turgid epic set in the 23rd year of the Thirty Years War (year 1641). A thrilling epic about a regiment of soldiers who happen upon a secluded German valley that has gone untouched during the bloody Thiry Years War.

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Emma Thompson · Paul Scofield · Derek Jacobi

Synopsis The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious guest stars starring in...

Direction Kevin Reynolds

Cast Kevin Costner · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · Morgan Freeman · Alan Rickman

Synopsis After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father has been murdered by the...

Direction Peter Hunt

Cast Ned Beatty · Brian Blessed · Ernest Borgnine · Nicholas Clay

Synopsis This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face...

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Peter O'Toole · Sophia Loren · James Coco · Harry Andrews

Synopsis In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which...

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Peter O'Toole · Sian Phillips · Steven Spielberg · Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis The legendary actor Peter O'Toole brought a touch of danger to his art and a stroke of madness to his life yet inspired a generation of movie makers. This film is structured into four acts each introduced by a quote...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Vanessa Redgrave · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas

Synopsis After the fall of Troy to the Greek invading army, the Trojan women weep over their lost city, families, and honour, as they are taken away as Greek slaves.

Direction Douglas Hickox

Cast Michael York · John Gielgud · Ian Richardson · Finola Hughes

Synopsis The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Peter O'Toole · Susannah York · Michael Craig · Harry Andrews

Synopsis In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary...

Direction Douglas Hickox

Cast Ian Richardson · Donald Churchill · Denholm Elliott · Glynis Barber

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Bryce Dallas Howard · Kevin Kline · Alfred Molina · Janet McTeer

Synopsis Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick (who is younger brother to Duke Senior and took over his dukedom), with her cousin Celia (daughter to Duke Frederick). She falls in...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Oliver Reed · Peter Firth · Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis "Prisoner of Honor" documents the French Dreyfus Affair that saw a French Captain sent to Devils' Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. Richard Dreyfuss plays Colonel Picquart who is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence....

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Tom Selleck · Bess Armstrong · Jack Weston · Wilford Brimley

Synopsis A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Armand Assante · Brian McCardie · Patrick Malahide · Michael Kitchen

Synopsis Year 1751. When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Sam J. Jones · Melody Anderson · Max von Sydow · Topol

Synopsis Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both...