Soundtrack: Robert Lane

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Paul Giamatti · Laura Linney · Sarah Polley · David Morse

Synopsis Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, 'John Adams' taps into the uncertainty and intensity surrounding the birth of the American republic and its first 50 years. With the fervent support of his wife Abigail (Linney), and through a lifelong...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Helen Mirren · Oleg Menshikov · Ben Miles · Robert Pugh

Synopsis Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Gosford Park) is back as Inspector Jane Tennison in an eagerly awaited new episode of the Emmy award-winning series Prime Suspect on ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre. It's been seven years since Tennison put the handcuffs on a...

Direction Susanna White

Cast Ruth Wilson · Toby Stephens · Francesca Annis · Christina Cole

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2006). 4 Episodes. After a wretched childhood, orphaned Jane Eyre yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at Thornfield Hall, where she tutors a lively French girl named Adele. She soon finds herself falling in love...

Direction Julie Anne Robinson · Coky Giedroyc

Cast David Morrissey · Sarah Parish · Thomas Morrison · David Tennant

Synopsis Part musical, part thriller, part drama, Blackpool brings the glitz of Vegas to the English seaside town in a gripping and witty whodunnit. Ripley Holden (David Morrissey) is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art...

Direction David Attwood

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Tom Hardy · Nicola Duffett · Claire-Louise Cordwell

Synopsis When Stuart Shorter -a homeless alcoholic with a violent past- meets writer and charity worker Alexander Masters, they strike up an unlikely friendship. As Alexander asks if he can write his story, Stuart gradually recounts his life story in reverse....

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Michael Sheen · Timothy Spall · Colm Meaney · Jim Broadbent

Synopsis The Damned United (2009) follows the turbulent 44-day tenure of Brian Clough as manager of Leeds United in 1974. Ambitious and outspoken, Clough takes over the reigning champions, a team built by his bitter rival Don Revie. His abrasive style...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Jim Broadbent · Samantha Morton · Tam Dean Burn · Lindsay Duncan

Synopsis LONGFORD [Jim Broadbent] is a thought-provoking story inspired by real events in the life of British Lord Frank Pakenham, the 7th Earl of Longford, and his controversial headline-making friendship with one of England's most notorious criminals. Longford, a devout Catholic,...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Helen Mirren · Jeremy Irons · Hugh Dancy · Patrick Malahide

Synopsis Emmy®-winner Helen Mirren and Oscar®-winner Jeremy Irons star in Elizabeth I, a two-part HBO Films miniseries event that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I (Mirren) in the latter half of her reign, offering a...

Direction Vikram Jayanti

Cast Garry Kasparov · Anatoli Karpov · Joel Benjamin · Michael Greengard

Synopsis Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov's...

Direction David Blair

Cast Gemma Arterton · Eddie Redmayne · Ruth Jones · Hans Matheson

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2008). 4 Episodes. In the late 19th century, Tess Durbeyfield is sent off to visit a rich cousin, Alec D'Urberville, when her parents learn learn that they are distantly related. Tess takes a disliking to the man and...

Direction Richard Clark · David Evans · Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Cast Oona Chaplin · Hermione Norris · Marianne Oldham · Alex Wyndham

Synopsis One of the untold stories of World War 1. Kitty Trevelyan tries to put the past troubles behind her as she joins two other girls to volunteer at one of the busy war hospitals in northern France.

Direction Peter Cattaneo · Dominic Leclerc · Susan Tully

Cast Morven Christie · Lee Ingleby · Tommie Grabiec · Abby Ford

Synopsis The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then, their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family anymore.

Direction Nick Broomfield · Joan Churchill

Synopsis Nick Broomfield's second documentary on Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the state of Florida. This second installment includes the filmmaker's testimony at Wournous's trial. Wuornos' case was worldwide knwon...

Direction Benjamin Ross

Cast Hugh O'Conor · Tobias Arnold · Ruth Sheen · Roger Lloyd-Pack

Synopsis This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of...

Direction Coky Giedroyc

Cast David Tennant · Janet Montgomery · Radoslaw Kaim · Burn Gorman

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2013). 2 Episodes. A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.

Direction Hugh Laurie

Cast Hugh Laurie · Anna Chancellor · Benedict Cumberbatch · Sheila Hancock

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · David Morrissey · Penelope Wilton · Katherine McGolpin

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 3 Episodes. "Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her...

Direction David Attwood

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Victoria Hamilton · Sam Neill · Jared Harris

Synopsis It's 1812 and Edmund Talbot is travelling on board a decrepit wooden warship. He is on his way to Australia to take up a Government post secured for him by his rich and influential godfather. Edmund is young, witty and...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Hilary Swank · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Jamie Bartlett · Ian Roberts

Synopsis Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor), a member of the South African Parliament who can't remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant (Swank), meanwhile,...

Direction Ronan Bennett · Walter Bernstein · Niall MacCormick

Cast Philip Glenister · Thekla Reuten · Anna Chancellor · Michael Winder

Synopsis When a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago....