Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Alisdair Simpson

1. Game of Thrones (2011–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.

Stars: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey

Votes: 2,294,811

2. MI-5 (2002–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.

Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones

Votes: 18,502

3. The Bill (1984–2010)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama

Long-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.

Stars: Graham Cole, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Simon Rouse

Votes: 4,127

4. EastEnders (1985– )

TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The everyday lives of working-class inhabitants of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. The square includes the Queen Vic pub and a street market.

Stars: Adam Woodyatt, Steve McFadden, Letitia Dean, June Brown

Votes: 9,257

5. Casualty (1986– )

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama

The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.

Stars: Derek Thompson, Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Ian Bleasdale

Votes: 3,705

6. Doctors (2000–2024)

30 min | Drama

The daily lives of staff at a Birmingham medical practice, including their often-dramatic involvements with their patients.

Stars: Adrian Lewis Morgan, Jan Pearson, Matthew Chambers, Diane Keen

Votes: 1,717

7. Whitstable Pearl (2021– )

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Local restaurant owner Pearl Nolan sets up a local detective agency after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She is soon embroiled in her first case when she discovers the body of her close friend Vinnie.

Stars: Howard Charles, Frances Barber, Isobelle Molloy, Sophia Del Pizzo

Votes: 3,495

8. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Drama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.

Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Tara Fitzgerald

Votes: 6,461

9. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

Drama following the life of the officers and men of the King's Own Fusiliers regiment, during their home lives, training exercises and battles.

Stars: Ben Nealon, Robson Green, Jerome Flynn, Rosie Rowell

Votes: 955

10. British Men Behaving Badly (1992–2014)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy

Two early thirties best friends live together while having completely different personalities. While their girlfriends try to help them take on more responsibilities the boys seldom respond well and usually end up drinking together.

Stars: Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin, Leslie Ash, Neil Morrissey

Votes: 8,677

11. A Private War (2018)

R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay

Votes: 21,050 | Gross: $1.63M

12. Teachers (2001–2004)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

Comedy drama that follows the exploits of school staff both inside and out of the classroom.

Stars: Ursula Holden Gill, Lloyd McGuire, Gillian Bevan, Ellen Thomas

Votes: 3,896

13. Final Fantasy XVI (2023 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

As a malady known as the Blight ravages the land of Valisthea and its realms plunge into war, Clive Rosfield, the firstborn son of the Archduke of Rosaria, sets out on a dark, dangerous journey to revenge following a tragedy.

Directors: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Hiroshi Takai | Stars: Ben Starr, Yûya Uchida, Yuma Uchida, Susannah Fielding

Votes: 1,720

14. Dream Team (1997–2007)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Sport

Series following the ups and down of fictional English Premiership club 'Harchester United' known more commonly as 'The Dragons'.

Stars: Lisa Burstow, Terry Kiely, Alison King, Danny Husbands

Votes: 987

15. Hotel Babylon (2006–2009)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

At a posh urban hotel, the love lives and whims of its wealthy guests are attended to by hard-working staff who have their own troubles with love.

Stars: Dexter Fletcher, Martin Marquez, Michael Obiora, Raymond Coulthard

Votes: 4,689

16. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.

Stars: Guy Walters, Alisdair Simpson, Jay Osborne, Michael Lynch

Votes: 5,088

17. 1000 Ways to Die (2008–2012)

TV-14 | 23 min | Documentary, Comedy, Horror

Several different deaths based on true stories.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Ron Perlman, Khyber Zaffarkhan, Boyd Flinders

Votes: 4,383

18. Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

TV-G | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

The bones of a giant are discovered. This turns Jack Robinson's life upside down as he learns the truth behind the fairy tale and how he can fix his greedy ancestor's mistakes.

Stars: Matthew Modine, Vanessa Redgrave, Mia Sara, Daryl Hannah

Votes: 4,075

19. Horizon (I) (1964– )

50 min | Documentary

British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.

Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach

Votes: 1,150

20. Natural World (1983– )

60 min | Documentary

Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.

Stars: David Attenborough, Barry Paine, John Shrapnel, Andrew Sachs

Votes: 779

21. Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures (1999 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

Full-cast audio drama series based on "Doctor Who (1963)" chronicling the further adventures of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors.

Stars: Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Sarah Sutton

Votes: 49

22. The Worst Week of My Life (2004–2006)

29 min | Comedy

Mel and Howard's wedding is one week away. Howard experiences a series of humiliating disasters in the week leading up to the ceremony.

Stars: Ben Miller, Sarah Alexander, Alison Steadman, Geoffrey Whitehead

Votes: 1,978

23. Hitmen (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime

Fran and Jamie are best friends and business partners - they just happen to kill people for a living. Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, the misfit duo are definitely not your typical killers for hire.

Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Katherine Parkinson, Asim Chaudhry

Votes: 1,247

24. Dispatches (1987– )

Documentary, News

Channel 4's long-running, award-winning investigative current affairs documentary series. Particularly noted for its undercover reporting.

Stars: Morland Sanders, Antony Barnett, Deborah Davies, Tazeen Ahmad

Votes: 238

25. The Diary of River Song (2015 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

Alex Kingston returns as River Song for all new adventures told throughout different points in River's life.

Stars: Alex Kingston, Salome Violetta Haertel, Tim Bentinck, Vineeta Rishi

26. Genghis Khan (2005 TV Movie)

58 min | Biography, Drama

Genghis Khan, ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vastest empire ever ruled by a single man, was both god and devil - not just in the Middle Ages, but for centuries to come.

Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Orgil Makhaan, Unubold Batbayar, Unurjargal Jigjidsuren, Erdenetsetseg Bazarragchaa

Votes: 658

27. Pompeii: The Last Day (2003 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History

A dramatized recreation of the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Director: Peter Nicholson | Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jim Carter, Jonathan Firth

Votes: 1,036

28. Sea of Souls (2004–2007)

120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A group of faculty and staff at a Glasgow university studies the paranormal.

Stars: Bill Paterson, Dawn Steele, Iain Robertson, Louise Irwin

Votes: 478

29. Unit - the New Series (2015 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

Following Kate Stewart, Osgood and the UNIT team as they defend planet Earth from alien threats.

Stars: Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave, James Joyce, Ramon Tikaram

30. Get Santa (2014)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.

Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Ewen Bremner

Votes: 4,766

31. Nazi Hunters (2009– )

650 min | Documentary

The hunt for Nazi war criminals after the Second World War.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Erich Goldhagen

Votes: 106

32. Doctor Who Unbound (2003–2025)

Sci-Fi

Doctor Who Unbound poses the question: What if...? A fascinating view of how the series and the character of the Doctor might have developed in eight different scenarios.

Stars: Nicholas Briggs, Colin Baker, Ian Brooker, Jez Fielder

33. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilizations collapsed.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Mary-Ann Ochota, Iszi Lawrence, Jeff Rose

Votes: 331

34. Myth Hunters (2012– )

Documentary, Biography, History

A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries.

Stars: Jonny Phillips, Alisdair Simpson, Chris Wilson, Guy Walters

Votes: 225

35. Broken News (2005)

Comedy

A quirky comedy comprised of numerous humorous news programmes spliced not-so-randomly together.

Stars: Claudia Christian, Duncan Duff, Sharon Horgan, Phil Nice

Votes: 257

36. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)

Documentary

A TV series that examines the truth behind the ostensibly true stories told in Hollywood films.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, David Galea, Stuart Whelan, Nathanjohn Carter

Votes: 44

37. Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures (2017 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

All new adventures for The First Doctor

Stars: David Bradley, Jamie Glover, Jemma Powell, Claudia Grant

38. The Whistleblowers (2007)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Ben Graham and Alisha Cole are two lawyers are about to witness something that will take them into a world of few moral certainties.

Stars: Richard Coyle, Indira Varma, Daniel Ryan, Paul Freeman

Votes: 149

39. Ancient Black Ops (2014)

Action, Drama, History

From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops. Each episode details the intricate complexity of the elite troops who performed the assassination missions and how they worked.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Sami Karim, Andrew Gough, Ken Jones

Votes: 120

40. The Royal Bodyguard (2011–2012)

Action, Comedy

A former soldier is brought out of retirement and put in charge of Royal security but he turns out to be the worst possible appointment as he is totally out of his depth.

Stars: David Jason, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Bentinck, Tim Downie

Votes: 580

41. Black Ops (2012–2014)

Drama, History, Mystery

Stories of operations by special forces with reenactments, archival footage, narration, and interviews with those who took part. Some operations are famous while others are lesser known.

Stars: Richard Cullen, Ross Donnelly, Danny Darren, Mark Ivan Benfield

Votes: 119

42. Evolution of Evil (2015)

50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi ... See full summary »

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Mohammed Atta, Luigi Boccanfuso, Frank McDonough

Votes: 143

43. The Man Who Stopped WW3: Revealed/The Man Who Saved the World (2012 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this is the untold story of how one man saved the world from nuclear apocalypse. From the producers of The King's Speech, this ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Green | Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Viktor Mikhailov, Olga Arkhipova, Andy Bradick

Votes: 32

44. National Geographic: Engineering the Impossible (2007– )

Documentary, Action, History

The incredible engineering stories behind three iconic ancient buildings: the Colosseum, the Great Pyramid of Giza and Chartres Cathedral. We tell the history of the people who built them: ... See full summary »

Stars: Eddie McCann, Alisdair Simpson, Peter Harlowe, Brian Dobson

Votes: 133

45. Secret War (2011– )

Documentary, History, War

Profiles of secret operatives for the Allies in World War II.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Jon Wennington, Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse

Votes: 31

46. No Bananas (1996– )

500 min | Drama

Add a Plot

Stars: Alison Steadman, Michael Elwyn, Rachel Power, Tim Matthews

Votes: 40

47. Nazi Collaborators (2010– )

51 min | Documentary, History

As shown on TV, Nazi Collaborators explores the fascinating and often shocking tales of how individuals from all walks of life: the privileged; the political elite; ordinary working men; ... See full synopsis »

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Greg Stebner, Rolf von Sydow, David Cesarani

Votes: 105

48. Lost Land of the Jaguar (2008– )

Documentary, Adventure

Discover the lost land of the Jaguar. In a bid to discover new species and help Guyana protect its environment, the expedition team ventures into some of the remote jungle on earth tracking... See full summary »

Stars: Steve Backshall, Alisdair Simpson, George McGavin

Votes: 67

49. The Churchill Years (2016 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

All new adventures with Winston Churchill as he encounters more Doctors and some of The Doctor's friends.

Stars: Ian McNeice, Emily Atack, Stewart Scudamore, Holly Earl

50. The Bigger Picture (2014)

8 min | Animation, Short, Drama

Two brothers whose ageing mother is dying, struggle to care for her.

Director: Daisy Jacobs | Stars: Anne Cunningham, Christopher Nightingale, Alisdair Simpson

Votes: 696