Film★ 6.31938The ChallengeDramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.Open details →
Film★ 5.61936Everything Is ThunderThe story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.Open details →
Film★ 7.81935The Guv'norThe Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.Open details →
Film★ 5.61935Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red BarnIn 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.Open details →
Film★ 5.51935Emil and the DetectivesErich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.Open details →
Film★ 5.51934The Secret of the LochA batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.Open details →
Film★ 8.01933Channel CrossingMoney isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.Open details →
Film★ 10.01932After the BallThe wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.Open details →
Film★ 8.01931The Perfect Lady'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)Open details →
Film1931P.C. JosserThe fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem himself by breaking up a ring of crooks who have been fixing horse-races by doping up the horses.Open details →
Film★ 8.01931Many WatersAn elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.Open details →
Film★ 7.01931DreyfusIn 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.Open details →
Film★ 10.01928BalaclavaA British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.Open details →
Series★ 8.01955The Adventures of the Scarlet PimpernelThe second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.Open details →
Film★ 4.51954John WesleyRescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.Open details →
Series★ 9.01952Pride and PrejudiceIn early 19th-century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.Open details →
Series★ 3.51950Sunday Night TheatreSunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.Open details →
Film★ 6.71949The Small Back RoomAs the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.Open details →
Film★ 5.91948The Monkey's PawA curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.Open details →
Film★ 6.01948DaybreakA mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.Open details →
Film★ 7.11947Fame Is the SpurA politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.Open details →
Film★ 5.61947FriedaAn RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.Open details →
Film★ 6.61941Atlantic FerryThe MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.Open details →
Film★ 9.01940Dangerous CommentA young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.Open details →
Film★ 6.71940Return to YesterdayRobert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.Open details →
Film★ 6.51940The Stars Look DownDavey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.Open details →
Film★ 6.41939The Lion Has WingsThis early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.Open details →
Film★ 7.41939Goodbye, Mr. ChipsThroughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.Open details →
Film★ 6.21939Let's Be FamousAn Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.Open details →
Gas LightFilm★ 8.01939Gas LightYears after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.Open details →
Film★ 6.61938South RidingWinifred 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 story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.Open details →
Film★ 5.61935The Phantom LightA series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.Open details →
Film★ 8.01930The W PlanA tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.Open details →
Film★ 6.11929High TreasonThe year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.Open details →
The Shadow of EgyptFilm★ 9.01924The Shadow of EgyptA European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...Open details →
Film★ 9.01922The Passionate FriendsAn armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.Open details →
A Romance of WastdaleFilm★ 9.01921A Romance of WastdaleA climber throws his fiancée's blackmailer over a cliff and finds all was a dream.Open details →
Film★ 7.01921A Woman of No ImportanceA widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.Open details →
The Amazing PartnershipFilm★ 9.01921The Amazing PartnershipA girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.Open details →
Belphegor the MountebankFilm★ 9.01921Belphegor the MountebankA rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.Open details →
Torn SailsFilm★ 8.01920Torn SailsBased on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.Open details →
The Twelve Pound LookFilm★ 8.01920The Twelve Pound LookA self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.Open details →
Film★ 10.01920Wuthering HeightsYoung orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.Open details →
Film★ 8.01919The Chinese PuzzleA Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.Open details →
Film★ 8.01917Little WomenFour sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.Open details →
Film1916The Man Without a SoulA scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.Open details →