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1. Free to Choose (1980– )
Documentary
This was originally a book, made into a ten part television series broadcast on PBS by economists Milton and Rose Friedman that advocates free market principles. The thrust of the series is... See full summary »
Stars: Milton Friedman, Robert McKenzie, Thomas Sowell, Peter Jay
Votes: 331
2. Bloody Ivory (1978)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
This unique historical film follows the struggle in Kenya's Tsavo National Park against bow and arrow poachers who kill elephants and rhino, and the story of hand-rearing elephant and rhino orphans whose mothers were killed by poachers.
Director: Simon Trevor | Stars: Daphne Sheldrick, David Sheldrick
Votes: 10
3.
All for Love (1982–1983)
Episode:
Mona
(1982)
Romance
Masterpiece Episode: "All for Love: Mona" Season 14, Episode 23 Episode Synopsis: "All for Love: Mona" concerns a teenager (Deborah Stokes) who takes care of a former soldier (Frank Finlay)... See full summary »
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Frank Finlay, Deborah Stokes, Fanny Rowe, Rosemary Martin
Votes: 9
4. Nature (1982– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Family
Documentary series exploring various global wildlife issues and subjects.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, George Page, Chris Morgan, David Attenborough
Votes: 842
5.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
How to Cure Inflation
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
Inflation results when the amount of money printed or coined increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money is a "token" of the wealth of a nation. If more tokens are ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Milton Friedman, Robert McKenzie
Votes: 15
6.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
How to Stay Free
(1980)
Documentary
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Milton Friedman, Robert McKenzie
Votes: 15
7.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
Roll on Four O'Clock
(1970)
60 min | Drama
Set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.
Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: George A. Cooper, Bill Dean, Colin Edwynn, Frank Heaton
Votes: 32
8. Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)
Documentary, Biography
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann... See full summary »
Stars: Eileen Atkins, Douglas Hodge, Anthony Burgess, George Steiner
Votes: 46
9. The Palestinian (1977 TV Movie)
66 min | Documentary
Director: Roy Battersby | Star: Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 214
10.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
The Tyranny of Control
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by "approved" or "authorized." Friedman ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Jadish Bhagwati, Richard Deason, Milton Friedman, Helen Hughes
Votes: 18
11. Frontline (1983– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
Stars: Will Lyman, Sarah Childress, Priyanka Boghani, Arun Rath
Votes: 2,301
12.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
The Spongers
(1978)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Set against the backdrop of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the play depicts a single mother's struggles in this highly polemical and unremittingly bleak diatribe against government welfare cuts from the poor and disabled.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Christine Hargreaves, Bernard Hill, Peter Kerrigan, Paula McDonagh
Votes: 73
13.
Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)
Episode:
A Leg Up for Christmas
(1995)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy
A depressed Howard tries to build himself up but, under Foggy's instruction, ends up breaking his leg. Auntie Wainwright has Smiler testing a Triumph Motorcycle, after she rents him the ... See full summary »
Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Brian Wilde, Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman
Votes: 39
14. Chronicle (1966–1991)
50 min | Documentary, History
Series tracing new developments in historical research.
Stars: Magnus Magnusson, John Julius Norwich, David Drew, Barry Cunliffe
Votes: 17
15. Right to Work March (1972)
42 min | Short, Family
Stars: Tony Anscombe, Jane Val Baker, John Bales, Wendy Bales
Votes: 64
16.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
The Power of the Market
(1980)
Documentary
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Barber B. Conable Jr., Frank Fazelli, Milton Friedman, Robert Galvin
Votes: 19
17.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
Who Protects the Consumer?
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, stifle beneficial innovation, and become agents for the ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Joan Claybrook, Robert Crandall, Milton Friedman, Ted Hacker
Votes: 14
18.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
Who Protects the Worker?
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its employees and special groups of workers at the expense of other ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Milton Friedman, Robert McKenzie
Votes: 15
19. Robin Hood (1984–1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A forest mystical being appoints two men in succession as the legendary outlaw defender of the oppressed.
Stars: Peter Llewellyn Williams, Ray Winstone, Mark Ryan, Clive Mantle
Votes: 4,997
20. Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric (1974 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Dave Allen meets a man named Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a railway box in a suburban garden; a former robot-maker for TV who is married to Jill but pretends to fly Lancaster ... See full summary »
Director: Robin Brown | Stars: Dave Allen, Edward H. Blackmore, Ivor Cutler, Snowy Farr
Votes: 21
21. Intimate Reflections (1975)
86 min
The film shows the parallel lives of two middle-class couples - one pair middle-aged and the other younger.
Director: Don Boyd | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton, Jonathan David
Votes: 19
22.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
Created Equal
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman explains that this did not mean all persons should or will have equal talents or income. Equal opportunity to ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Milton Friedman, Peter Jay, Robert McKenzie, Francis Fox Piven
Votes: 16
23.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
Anatomy of a Crisis
(1980)
Documentary
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: George Eccles, Milton Friedman, Peter Jay, Robert Lekachman
Votes: 17
24.
Robin Hood (1984–1986)
Episode:
Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
(1984)
TV-PG | 100 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
His family massacred by Norman soldiers, Robin takes on the mantle of the Hooded Man, a champion long prophesied. His first challenge is to free Maid Marion from the clutches of the evil, powerful Baron de Belleme.
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Wayne Michaels, Toby Lee, Geoffrey Greenhill, Betty Francis
Votes: 642
25.
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)
Episode:
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
(1988)
Documentary, Biography
Joseph K. is to go on trial. But what's he done?
Director: David Thomas | Stars: David Barrass, John Bennett, Michael Bryant, Tatyana Colombo
Votes: 7
26. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 3,431 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chief Inspector Morse has an ear for Western classical music, a taste for beer, and a nose for crime. He and Detective Sergeant Robert Lewis solve intriguing cases in and around the Oxford area.
Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Grout, Peter Woodthorpe
Votes: 14,395
27. The World About Us (1967–1987)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary series with a broad remit of geography, anthropology, and natural history subjects.
Stars: Hugh Falkus, David Attenborough, Barry Paine, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 36
28.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
What's Wrong with Our Schools?
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is a U.S. tradition and is consistent with a free society. Centralized government control has eroded freedom and ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Gregory Anrig, Don Ayers, Regina Barreca, Caroline Bell
Votes: 14
29. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham
Votes: 616,970 | Gross: $3.90M
30. 35 Up (1991 TV Movie)
123 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
Votes: 2,729 | Gross: $0.92M
31. Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' (1981 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Family
Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.
Directors: Peter Berry, Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Julie Andrews, Charles Aznavour, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte
Votes: 138
32. The Silent Witness (1978)
PG | 55 min | Documentary
A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.
Director: David W. Rolfe | Stars: Kenneth More, Richard Hamer, Sarah Twist, Angela Ellis
Votes: 30
33. Spinning Candyfloss (2000)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Anna Pernicci | Stars: Daz Crawford, Tiff Stevenson, Shaka Bunsie, Judith Shekoni
Votes: 17
34.
The Comic Strip Presents (1982– )
Episode:
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
(1984)
38 min | Comedy
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Spiers | Stars: Keith Allen, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall
Votes: 269
35.
The Comic Strip Presents (1982– )
Episode:
Bad News Tour
(1983)
35 min | Comedy
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service ... See full summary »
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson
Votes: 464
36.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Driven to Distraction
(1990)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two beautiful women are stabbed to death a month apart by the same killer, the only connection between the pair is their car dealership.
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Julia Lane, Tariq Yunus
Votes: 885
37.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1985)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1985)
26 min | Comedy, Family
Struggling to come to terms with his mother's departure, Adrian wears red socks to school, which sees him sent home by the headmaster, Mr. Scruton. His furious father complains to Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Stephen Moore, Bill Fraser
Votes: 16
38.
Free to Choose (1980– )
Episode:
From Cradle to Grave
(1980)
57 min | Documentary
The welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people's money. Such attempts always fail because: Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as his own. Welfare is ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Massey | Stars: Helen Bohen, Richard Brown, Lawrence Davenport, James R. Dumpson
Votes: 16
39. The Battle for The Battle of Britain (1969 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
From July 10 to October 31, 1940, England stood alone against Hitler'S Germany. The Battle of Britain does an excellent depiction of the first battle In history fought totally as an air war prior to U.S. entry into WWII.
Directors: Paul Annett, Christopher Doll | Stars: Michael Caine, Winston Churchill, Harry Saltzman, Benjamin Fisz
Votes: 49
40. Gay Life (1980–1981)
35 min | Documentary
Documentary surrounding gay life and history related to this.
Stars: Michael Attwell, John Alcock, Marilyn, Chubby Oates
Votes: 10
41. Legacy: The Origins of Civilization (1991– )
52 min | Documentary
What can the past teach us about the present? Come along as charismatic historian Michael Wood (The Story of India) travels the globe to trace the origins of six great civilizations: Iraq, ... See full summary »
Star: Michael Wood
Votes: 128
42. Drake's Venture (1980 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama, History
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: John Thaw, Charlotte Cornwell, Paul Darrow, Terence Budd
Votes: 35
43. Titanic (1997)
PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Votes: 1,282,612 | Gross: $659.33M
44. The Secret World of Polly Flint (1987)
30 min | Fantasy
A young girl escapes her loneliness by retreating to The Magical World of Another Time, which can only be reached by using your imagination.
Stars: Michael Hordern, Kate Reynolds, Susan Jameson, Don Henderson
Votes: 30
45. The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985)
29 min | Short, Drama
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Brenda Fricker, Peter Caffrey, Eamon Kelly
Votes: 23
46. The Time of Our Lives (1994)
80 min | Documentary
This is my Grandad Richard Harris, I would love to Watch the documentary again, if anyone can help.
Director: Michael Grigsby
Votes: 8
47. Better Dead Than Gay (1996 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Simon Harvey was a gay man unable to reconcile his gay feelings with his strict christian upbringing. At the age of 26 he killed himself. Simon's father said "To discover my son was gay was... See full summary »
Director: Christopher O'Hare | Stars: Robert Amess, Gay Bartlam, Matthew Delamere, George Harvey
Votes: 10
48.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1985)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1985)
26 min | Comedy, Family
A school trip to the British Museum in London ends in disaster when the children go out of control and Barry Kent ends up arrested for theft. Adrian's phone calls to Pandora in Tunisia come... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Beryl Reid, Bill Fraser
Votes: 15
49. The Comic Strip Presents (1982– )
Comedy
A series of self contained television movies starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous movies, literature, and generally everyone in sight.
Stars: Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Planer
Votes: 1,637
50. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988 TV Movie)
Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth.
Director: Brian Mills | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Raymond Adamson, Alastair Duncan
Votes: 5,853