Renée Asherson

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family...

A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals...

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at...

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese...

The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first...

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.

A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who...

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world...

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in...

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join...

A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.

Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

A sergeant returns from war to his contemptible fiancée, intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new...

At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to...

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The...

1960/61: The decline of the aristocracy.

Summer in Dover 1919: Christine's mother runs a boarding house, in which Christine feels like the dull aspidistras which clutter the rooms, until...

Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He...