The Sweeney: Series 2 (1976)

Starring: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan

Regan and Carter are back with more hard-boiled, flares-and-sideburns action. In the second series, the relationship between the two strengthens when... Read more

Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 3 (1959)

Starring: Tony Hancock, Sid James, Patricia Hayes

The late, great Tony Hancock is at his best in these ten episodes from 1959, with Sid James as the perfect foil. Collected from Series 5, Tony and Si... Read more

Indiscreet (1958)

Director: Stanley Donen

Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs J...

Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant are perfectly cast in this witty comedy, adapted by Norman Krasna from his own stageplay, 'Kind Sir'. Bergman is a weal... Read more

Space Race (2005)

Director: Mark Everest, Christopher Spencer

The BBC used a combination of real footage, commentary and dramatization for this four-part series about one of the most exhilarating times in history... Read more

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 2 (1990)

Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Another ripping series of satire and silliness with two of Britain's foremost comic actors. Nothing is sacred as the eighties takes a well-deserved l... Read more

Beowulf and Grendel (2005)

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson

Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Gerard Butler, Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Sarah Polley

Adapted from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem, and shot amidst the bleakly stunning vistas of Iceland, this fantasy adventure stars Stellan Skarsgard as a ki... Read more

The Backwoods (2006)

Director: Koldo Serra

Starring: Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Virginie Ledoyen, Lluis Homa...

A young English couple (Paddy Considine and Virginie Ledoyen) are going through a rough patch and decide to spend some time in the Basque country with... Read more

Judgement Day: Images of Heaven and Hell (2004)

Director: Ben Harding

Starring: Tim Marlow

A three-part series exploring the relationship between art and the afterlife, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, to Stanley Spencer's vision of heave... Read more

Who Wrote the New Testament? (2005)

It's the most popular book of all time yet we don't have a single page or the smallest scrap of the original to refer to. Filmed in Israel, Egypt, Tu... Read more

Eragon (2006)

Director: Stefen Fangmeier

Starring: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garr...

Based on the best-seller by Christopher Paolini (he was just 17 when his family published it) in which a young orphaned farmboy finds a mystical stone... Read more