Screenplay: Charles Wood

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast David Hemmings · Tony Beckley · Tom Bell · Alan Dobie

Plot The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside.

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Pete Postlethwaite · Daragh O'Malley · Hugh Fraser

Plot Spain 1812. After Ciudad Rodrigo, Teresa tells Sharpe that they have a baby daughter. In Badajoz, the next siege target. Meanwhile, a new commander has taken over the South Essex,...

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Richard Burton · Laurence Olivier · Vanessa Redgrave · László Gálffi

Plot A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Kate Winslet · Judi Dench · Jim Broadbent · Hugh Bonneville

Plot Iris Murdoch (Winslet, Dench) was one of the most extraordinary women of her generation. A brilliant scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, she later became a noted philosopher and novelist....

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Ray Brooks · Jane Birkin · Rita Tushingham · Charlotte Rampling

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Trevor Howard · John Gielgud · David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Snobbery and bad politics lead to military disaster during the Crimean War.

Direction Richard Lester

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Plot After the worldwide success of A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles and director Richard Lester reunited for a follow-up film, Eight Arms to Hold You. Well, that wasn't the final...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Rita Tushingham · Ralph Richardson · Peter Cook · Dudley Moore

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Sean Connery · Brooke Adams · Jack Weston · Hector Elizondo

Plot A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman · Georgina Cates · Alun Armstrong

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Michael Crawford · John Lennon · Roy Kinnear · Lee Montague

Plot This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Liam Neeson · Laura Linney · Antonio Banderas · Romola Garai

Plot Peter (Liam Neeson) and Lisa (Laura Linney) are settled in the comfort of their long-term marriage. Lisa is a successful shoe designer and Peter runs his own company. It is...

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Robert Stephens · Virginia McKenna · Judith Howarth · Robert Urquhart

Plot When Italian composer Giacomo Puccini is accused of sleeping with his maid, the scandal threatens to destroy his life and career. This biopic intercuts with director Tony Palmer's efforts to...

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Carroll Baker · Virginia Balfour · Colin Blakely · George A. Cooper

Plot About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.

Direction Peter Barber-Fleming

Cast Darren Redmayne · Hannah Gordon · Brian Blessed · Anthony Calf

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Daragh O'Malley · John Tams · Jason Salkey

Plot TV Series (1993-2008). 7 Seasons. 16 Episodes. A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Colin Firth · Paul Rhys · David Calder · Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Plot This film is based on the true story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence M.C. (Colin Firth), a former British Army officer, who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War...

Direction Christopher Hodson · Marc Miller · Peter Moffatt · James Ormerod

Cast George Cole · Edward Woodward · John Stride · Susan Travers

Plot TV Series (1968-1969). 2 seasons. 13 episodes. An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Daragh O'Malley · Abigail Cruttenden · Hugh Fraser

Plot Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of...

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Samuel West · Patrick Drury · Nicholas Farrell · Robert Bathurst