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- After finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?
- After life-changing heart surgeries, good friends Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse embark on a relaxing yet epic journey around Britain, eating great food and attempting to catch some of the nation's iconic fish.
- Follows the adventures of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol, particularly the crew of its most advanced combat submarine called Stingray.
- After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.
- A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them is found murdered.
- Sonny and his kangaroo Skippy live in Waratah National Park in New South Wales. Matt Hammond, Sonny's father is the park ranger. Skippy saves the day in many adventures.
- Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
- From Christopher Guest ('Best in Show, ' 'A Mighty Wind') comes this comedy series that follows one man's quest to track down his genealogy.
- The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.
- A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
- After hitting rock bottom, former youth-boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team: gym owner Bill and corner-man Eddie.
- Feature documentary about the spectacular fall from grace of media mogul Harvey Weinstein. With a cast of characters including survivors, friends and colleagues, this is a portrait of power and its abuses, spanning over forty years.
- Spoof documentary series set in the offices of a talent agency. Impressionist Morgana Robinson plays owner Vincent Mann and all of his celebrity clients - male and female.
- In an unstable South American country, capable Nostromo, a person of trust and a legend among his shipmates, is ordered to secure a shipment of silver and stop any revolutionaries who might try to take it. But even the bravest can be foolish.
- The misadventures of three young football players at a fictional Premier League club.
- A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.
- A competitive programme that searches for Britain’s most talented amateur interior designer.
- Ralph witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage through adultery and alcohol during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland in 1969. Ralph finds his new step-mother is the only one who understands his inner turmoil.
- As part of the BBC2 50th-anniversary celebrations, comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the channel. It parodies the channel, its content, and the history documentary.
- A documentary that looks at the World War 2 deception of 1943. British Naval intelligence devised a plan so ludicrous that Churchill loved it, the German High Command fell for it, and Allied forces acted on it, allowing them to invade southern Europe via Sicily. A plot so far fetched, you'll think it was fiction. Not since the Trojan horse has a military deception had such an impact on the world.
- Royal Marines defend Government House from Argentine invaders during the events that triggered the Falklands War.
- In 1938 mixed race baby Shirley Bassey, her mother and eight siblings are living in a poor area of Cardiff after her father is imprisoned for sexual offences. The teen-aged Shirley will help the family finances bringing her big, impassioned singing voice to local clubs and, in 1954, aged seventeen, she moves to London, impressing agent Mike Sullivan. To further her career however she must give up her illegitimate daughter Sharon to be raised as her own child by Shirley's sister Iris. After winning over the famously hostile Glasgow Empire audience Shirley has arrived. Impresario Jack Hylton stars her in the West End and she has hit records. She rides out gutter press interest in Sharon and, after a row with Mike, takes fledgling film producer Kenneth Hume as her agent and husband. Not only does he fail to further her career but he turns out to be a homosexual. Yet Shirley is a born survivor, weathering her divorce from Ken in 1965 and, decades later, still every inch a star, belting out the autobiographical song 'My Life'.
- The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.
- In March 2018, Julie Reilly was reported missing. The skilled investigators of Police Scotland's Major Investigations team take up the case.
- In the near future, the greenhouse effect has plunged the world into recession, and the unscrupulous Stark Corporation is making as much money as it can from the crisis.
- Not Only...But Also, most famously showcased Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in there so-called 'Dagenham dialogues' in which Pete (a nasal know-all who has utter confidence in his surreal and ill-informed philosophies on life) and Dud (credulous, dim-witted and scruffy) discuss all manner of subjects, bedecked in cloth caps and Macs.
- An interview with Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of KZ Auschwitz, by Thomas Harding. Research from this interview was used for the book "Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz". The interview took place at Brigitte Höss home, in N. Virginia, USA.
- Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. The story is told through the testimony of people who lived together for centuries, but were forced out of their homes as one of the largest and most ethnically diverse nations in the world was divided. Dramatised reconstructions evoke some of the mistrust, violence and upheaval that ensued.
- In 1996 Marc Dutroux was arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls aged between 8 and 19, four of whom died. His widely publicized trial took place in 2004. Dutroux was convicted of all charges, along with the murder of a suspected former accomplice, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Dutroux's accomplices included Michelle Martin, Michel Lelièvre, Jean-Michel Nihoul, and Bernard Weinstein. Martin was convicted and sentenced as an accomplice to 30 years in prison, while Lelièvre was sentenced to 25 years. Nihoul, a Brussels conman, pub-owner and familiar face at sex parties, was initially tried as an accomplice to the kidnappings, but was acquitted of these charges due to insufficient evidence. He was instead convicted of involvement in a gang that participated in human and drug trafficking and was sentenced to five years in prison. Weinstein was never tried, as he was murdered by Dutroux.
- The action moves along quickly in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is sought by Riley, a lover from 17 years in the past. In turn, the IRA has sent two members after Riley because he shot an IRA soldier and must pay the consequences. The two IRA operatives looking for Riley come across a really nasty biker who wants vengeance on Eve for setting his car on fire -- and the three men finally track her and Chrissie to the wine-growing country of Barossa Valley. The final denouement is about to explode, as Riley also arrives on the scene. With under-par acting and a patchy plot, this film was never released theatrically.
- Louis Theroux visits a small group of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers.
- Terry Pratchett looks at the highly controversial issue of assisted suicide.
- BBC 2 aired "The Vault of Horror", a hosted horror movie show on Halloween night till the early hours of the morning; that was hosted by Guy Henry as "Dr Walpurgis".
- Televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
- When Martin 's adopted daughter is kidnapped from their English home by a mysterious figure from Ireland, Martin decides to go in pursuit and finds himself across the water exploring his own background as a Protestant in Ulster. The film is both a chase thriller and David Rudkin 's personal view of the situation in Northern Ireland.
- Tout commence quand Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), célèbre constructeur du trottoir roulant de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, sauve la vie de la belle Alice Avellano (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), que son mari, devenu fou, tentait d'étrangler. Lucien Lachenay est lui-même menacé par un groupe d'anarchistes qui ont chargé un jeune travailleur, Alphonse (Benno Fürmann), de le supprimer. Alphonse bousille le travail, mais Lucien, impressionné par l'énergie inépuisable et la soif de connaissance de celui-ci, accepte d'être son mentor au lieu de le livrer à la Police. Au cours des années qui suivront, Lucien, Alphonse, Alice et la jeune et séduisante Laure (Isabelle Carré) se mesureront au jeu de la rivalité, de la trahison et de la réconciliation.
- A very informative documentary on the making of Peter Jackson's gore classic Bad Taste. Highlights include behind-the-scenes footage, detailed explanations of the special effects, an interview with Peter's mom and dad, and interviews with the cast and crew.
- This definitive documentary on the life of Gandhi examines his relationship with his wife, his controversial views on race and his role on the path to Indian independence. On the world stage, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama and a myriad of peace movements have marched in Gandhi's footsteps. But while he remains, unquestionably, India's revered father, the 'Father of a Nation', there is another and less well known side to him. This series charts Gandhi's Establishment beginnings, his move into politics and his campaign to bring independence to India.
- Ex-crack-head Carl John revisits his home city of Liverpool to make a documentary about how this terrible drug is destroying the lives of people he knows. In the "Crack House" BBC documentary one is given a unique insight into the lives of crack addicts in the UK and how this problem is not going away. We see prostitutes and shoplifters and pregnant hookers in action and people smoking crack and what kind of places they inhabit.
- The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since their release.
- The inside story of a family dynasty at the heart of one of the world's biggest problems.
- Documentary series exploring social history via the family trees of ordinary families, tracing the family forward through history to their modern descendants.
- On 8th November 1918, an Englishman, a Frenchman and a German gathered in secret on a train carriage in a forest near Paris. Their meeting would last for three days. It's aim: bring peace to Europe, and an end to four long years of brutal war.
- Historian Lucy Worsley visits the places and houses in England. where Jane Austen spent time and which served as inspiration for the settings of her novels.
- The Ruins Of Empires is an innovative performance piece by Hip Hop Artist and writer Akala. It is an abridged version of his epic poem of the same name and is a personal interpretation of history as told through the 'knowledge seeker' performed by Akala himself. He follows the course of mans evolution, via astral travel and multiple reincarnations, in an attempt to discover the cause of the rise and fall of Empires. It is driven by a musical score by Mala and Paul Gladstone-Reid and combines innovative animation techniques and emerging technology with some of the most ground breaking creative talents in the industry, under the creative guidance of Andy Serkis and The Imaginarium.
- Dramatized story shot like a documentary about an alpha she-wolf and her six cubs who must navigate the treacherous Alps in order to find a safe place to live after her alpha mate is killed by a bear.
- Louis travels to Phoenix, Arizona - the capital of dementia care.
- Celebrity chef Rick Stein takes as meandering journey through the waterways of France, sampling the very best of the country's cuisine, as he takes the long route to a favourite Marsailles eatery.
- Lagos has expanded to a Megacity of 16 million people in less than 50 years. It contains some of the most extreme urban environments in the world. In this series, some of the inhabitants of this restless city take us into their lives.
- The first part of Bogdanov's drama trilogy A Light in the Valley...On the Hill...In the City. A daring summation of how we had arrived and from where we had come. They won prizes inside and outside of Wales including BAFTAs and Royal Television Society Awards. Performed not only by distinguished professional actors but also with the residents of the Rhondda Valley. A Light on the Hill was broadcast in November 2000 and the final part, A Light in the City in February 2001. All three 90 minute films were shown on BBC2.