Cinematography: Patrick Duval

Direction Cesca Eaton · David Jeffcock

Cast John Eliot Gardiner

Plot John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician.

Direction Chris Rodley

Cast Steve Howe · Bob Harris · Arthur Brown

Direction Chris Rodley

Cast Syd Barrett · Joe Boyd · Bob Geldof · David Gilmour

Plot Traces the band's history from psychedelic 60s London to a reunion show at Live 8 in 2005, this is the story of a succession of musical and commercial peaks separated...

Direction Kate Haddock · Mike Ibeji · Melisa Akdogan · Stuart Everett

Cast Eddie McCann · Alisdair Simpson · Peter Harlowe · Brian Dobson

Direction Randall Wright

Plot Hockney sees the charismatic artist take director Randall Wright on an exclusive tour of his archives and into his studio, where he still paints seven days a week. The film,...

Direction Terence Davies

Cast Freda Dowie · Pete Postlethwaite · Angela Walsh · Dean Williams

Plot This is a bleak portrait (or rather, two portraits) of a British family just after World War II. The two segments are titled, appropriately enough, "Distant Voices" and "Still Lives."...

Direction Nigel Marven · Karen Kelly · Sid Bennett · Matthew Thompson

Cast Nigel Marven · Rod Arthur · Suzanne McNabb · David Jason

Direction Simon Chu · Louise Wardle · Jeff Morgan

Direction Nigel Miller

Cast Terry Jones

Plot Terry Jones hosts this series that looks at the real facts about the Middle Ages and its roots.

Direction Ron Peck

Cast Gail Levin · Ron Levin

Plot Filmmaker Ron Peck narrates this exploration of the world and work of Edward Hopper with Gail Levin, curator of the Edward Hopper Collection at New York's Whitney Museum of American...

Direction Clive Maltby

Cast Pierce Brosnan

Direction Philippa Lowthorpe

Cast Lesley Nightingale · James Larkin · Isabella Nightingale

Plot A bus stops and drops off a mother and daughter at a British holiday resort by the sea, which happens also to be a naturist resort. Mother is looking for...

Direction John Smith

Cast Echo and the Bunnymen

Plot ‘Shine So Hard’ is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 ‘Camo Tour’.

Direction Ray Yeung

Cast Chowee Leow · Steven Lim · Gareth Rhys Davis · Neil Collie

Plot Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross...

Direction John Smith

Plot Experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory and transformation. Filled with Smith’s signature witty wordplay and elegant visual punning, 'Slow...

Direction Hugo Blick

Cast Joanna Lumley · Denis Lawson · James Lance · Nicholas Jones

Plot A sitcom about affluent couple Al and Davina Jackson who live in metropolitan London. Along with their friends Al and Davina struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealously and try...

Direction John Smith

Plot 'Dad’s Stick' features three well-used objects that were shown to the artist by his father shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped in history that their original...

Direction Tim Dunn · Tim Kirby

Cast Richard Miles · Simon Russell Beale

Plot Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation in an epic series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the...

Direction Margy Kinmonth

Cast Alan Bennett · Tamsin Greig · Robert Macfarlane · Ai Weiwei

Plot ERIC RAVILIOUS - DRAWN TO WAR is the first major feature film about Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), the much loved but hugely underestimated British Official War Artist artist, killed in a...

Direction Randall Wright

Plot Philippe, Michel, Andre and Patrick were labeled 'idiots', locked away and forgotten in asylums, until the 1960s, when the young philosopher Jean Vanier took a stand and secured their release....