Who Do You Think You Are?: Series 3 (2006)

Britain's best-loved celebrities trace their family tree to reveal the surprising, extrordinary and often moving stories of their ancestors. One of t... Read more

A Matter of Life and Death ( aka Stairway to Heaven ) (1946)

Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring

One night over Europe, a crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead except for the young pilot (David Niven) d... Read more

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)

Director: John Erman

Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, Huub Stapel, Eleanor Bron

July 6th 1942 is a date Miep Gies will never forget, the day that Otto Frank, his business partner and their families went into hiding. The day her li... Read more

The King's Speech (2010)

Director: Tom Hooper

Starring: Colin Firth, Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Jenn...

Four Academy Awards-including Best Picture, Director, and Actor-went to this biopic of 1930s Britain's King George VI. Colin Firth shines as the monar... Read more

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Director: Robert Bolt

Starring: Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton, Pame...

She was the darling of English society in 1805 when she married the country's most distinguished peer. Then she rocked the gentry and threatened her h... Read more

Longitude (1999)

Director: Charles Sturridge

Starring: Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Ian Hart

Once out of sight of land, mariners had no reliable way of telling their exact position in the world's seemingly endless oceans, so in 1714 Parliament... Read more

Marie Curie (1977)

Director: John Glenister

Starring: Jane Lapotaire, Nigel Hawthorne

This daring portrait gives viewers a rare insight into the heartbreak and scandal that rocked Curie's early years following the death of her husband w... Read more

Rumpole of the Bailey: Series 4 (1987)

Starring: Leo McKern

London's most disheveled barrister returns for a fourth series of the genre-defining 'Rumpole of the Bailey'. Flawless writing by John Mortimer and st... Read more

Michael Palin: Pole to Pole (1992)

Director: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance

Starring: Michael Palin

Michael's journey along the 30-degree east line of longitude encompasses 17 countries and both hemispheres - from Greenland in the north to Kenya, Sou... Read more

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

Director: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance

Starring: Michael Palin

In 1989 Michael Palin recreated the famous voyage made in 1873 by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's epic tale "Around the World in 80 Days". This BBC docu... Read more