Robert Powell

A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a...

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB...

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the...

Five partially-dramatized readings of classic M.R. James ghost stories by actor Robert Powell. Including "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-Tree", "The Rose...

The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground...

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

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...

Biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the controversial uncle of the Queen, who became the source of scandals during the 1930s involving The...

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly...

A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

A contemporary retelling of the Mary Shelley story, produced as a tribute to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on the 150th anniversary of his death.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a...

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the...

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Robert Powell takes a look at the story of the Titanic...

The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers,...

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

It was a time of bitterness and hatred, a war which pitched father against son, brother against brother in the bloody battle for the soul of the...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Robert Powell narrates this engrossing exploration of one of France and Britain's most thrilling and decisive conflicts: the Battle of Trafalgar. The...

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style,...

The ancient Aztec world inadvertantly welcomes its doom in the form of the Conquistadors.

It was to be Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest adventure; an invasion of Russia with an army of more than 650,000 men, the largest the world had yet...

Documentary in which the late impressionist's daughters get to the truth about their father's rise to fame and record-breaking success, and his...

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a...

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story...

Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce...

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying...

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose...

The life of the Virgin Mary from the Crucifixion (33AD) till her miraculous departure/death (44AD). It also describes the early years of the...

Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic...

The story of the Earl of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck, during the reign of King Henry VII.

Set in an exclusive boy's school, about a man who plans to kill off his wealthy teacher wife by encouraging her to drink and pushing her into...

When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a...

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared...

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very...

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...

A World Cup of shocks and surprises, making history from start to finish. It was the first World Cup in Asia and the first to be co-hosted by two...

The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been...

An experimental, autobiographical documentary presented by Alan Garner

Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902...

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the...

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its...

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's sense of drama was born out of his own experience...

Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980’s, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The...

Safari tour guide David Webb (Robert Powell) takes a job as head of security on the luxury train Pride of Africa and discovers that the wealthy...

The cast of a British soap opera are attacked by a mad fan who confuses them with their TV roles.

The War in Color draws on unique color material from German, British, Russian and American archives. For the first time, 35mm color footage of the...

With new interviews with the actors and production team, this documentary reveals the inspiration for stories, outlines how the team knew they were...

The story of Jesus Christ has been portrayed countless times throughout the history of cinema, from the chaste and embryonic staging of the silent...