Screenplay: Colin Welland

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Ben Cross · Ian Charleson · Nigel Havers · Cheryl Campbell

Plot This is the true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a...

Direction John Roberts

Cast Gregg Fitzgerald · Gerard Kearney · Darragh Naughton · Brendan McNamara

Plot The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble...

Direction Euzhan Palcy

Cast Donald Sutherland · Marlon Brando · Susan Sarandon · Janet Suzman

Plot Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Richard Gere · Vanessa Redgrave · William Devane · Rachel Roberts

Plot During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the...

Direction Bud Yorkin

Cast Gene Hackman · Ann-Margret · Ellen Burstyn · Amy Madigan

Plot Gene Hackman stars as an aging Steelworker mostly contented but with something missing who falls in love with a beautiful barmaid who also is attracted to him.

Direction John Jacobs · Marc Miller · Valerie Hanson · Barry Davis

Cast Michael Balfour · Madoline Thomas · Sandra Bryant · Diane Cilento

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast Julie Walters · Georges Corraface · John McArdle · Orlando Urdaneta

Plot A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Bill Maynard · Rosemarie Dunham · Marjorie Yates · Lori Wells

Plot A fifty-year-old factory worker leaves his wife of many years for another woman.

Direction Barry Davis · Alan Clarke · John Mackenzie · Philip Saville

Cast Alison Steadman · Nigel Hawthorne · Tony Caunter · David Daker

Plot TV Series (1970-1984). 14 Seasons. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and...