Eric Porter

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated...

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm...

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original...

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius...

A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a...

David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan...

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play....

This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the...

Tag is a clever fox able to elude the dogs as well as the British hunters who pursue him. In his early years, Tag befriends a hound named Merlin, and...

A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland.

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of...

The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the...

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it...

Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict....

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy...

An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch....

TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.

A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions....

Running from 1969 until 1977, the BBC Christmas shows were usually on Christmas Day. These classic sketches revolved around famous guest stars, such...

A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who...

An ex-West End playwright, interviewed by a hack-journalist for a railway station biography. How can this turn into a love story?

The Final Solution is set against the backdrop of WW2. It follows a relentless detective racing against time to solve a complex conspiracy. The plot...

It was simple to live in the world in 1945 after the defeats of Germany and Japan. Did nearly 60 million people die for naught?

Against a background of archive film, the voices of some sixty men drawn from all theaters of war recall the stories and thoughts of fighting and...

History of Germany from 1933 - 1945

The love affair of Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell with a married woman, Katherine O'Shea.