Daphne

Daphne 2007

6.00

Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon's wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.

2007

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 2021

6.20

In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next decades, Collins would go on to build an empire writing books where female agency came first. Jackie Collins’ women were unapologetic about their needs and their sexual desire, and to her devoted readers, Collins became a symbol of the effortless power that defined her heroines.

2021

Fear Itself

Fear Itself 2015

6.10

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us – and why we let them.

2015

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story 2023

6.40

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret. Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball. Narrated by Alan Cumming. With Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Barnaby Thompson.

2023

London: The Modern Babylon

London: The Modern Babylon 2012

6.50

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

2012

Strasbourg 1518

Strasbourg 1518 2020

5.80

Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.

2020

M.R. James: Ghost Writer

M.R. James: Ghost Writer 2013

8.70

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to Eton, Cambridge and France, venturing into ancient churches, dark cloisters and echoing libraries along the way.

2013

Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain

Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain 2014

1

As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise of Sir George Gilbert Scott to the very heights of success, the fall of his son George Junior and the rise again of his grandson Giles. It is a story of architects bent on a mission to rebuild Britain. From the Romantic heights of the Midland Hotel at St Pancras station to the modern image of Bankside power station (now Tate Modern), this is the story of a family that shaped the Victorian age and left a giant legacy.

2014

How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court

How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court 2014

1

Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

2014

Fruity

Fruity 2021

10.00

A lonely lesbian plagued with thoughts of fruit whenever she attempts to masturbate begins to develop her own sexual prowess.  Everything changes when Mina meets confident Georgia in the fruit aisle of a supermarket. With this newfound lesbian companion, a quick prayer to her “Celesbian” icons, and a flurry of new feelings inside of her, Mina starts to clear the oranges, pomegranates, melons, and apples from her brain.

2021

The Birth of the Telephone

The Birth of the Telephone 2021

1

Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of this account. We uncover a different type of birth occurring. Here is a device that, beneath the camouflage of instrumentality, raises questions about connection, anxiety and death.

2021

Charli XCX: The F-Word and Me

Charli XCX: The F-Word and Me 2015

7.00

While touring to promote her second studio album "Sucker", Charli XCX tackles what feminism ('the f-word') really means to women in the music industry in a series of interviews with other pop artists.

2015

Prisoner C33

Prisoner C33 2022

7.00

Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable to wash properly, is a brilliant writer, husband and father of two, once the most beloved artist in Victorian London. His real name is Oscar Wilde.

2022

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas 1970

1

Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of pop art, an outdoor museum of American culture. What is the story behind the neon lights and fantastical buildings? What will its future be in these tough times? Alan Yentob takes a mob tour and talks to producers and performers about the golden days when Sinatra and Dino held the stage, and the wise guys called the shots.

1970

Voodoo in My Heart

Voodoo in My Heart 2021

1

Emily’s boyfriend has turned into a zombie overnight. She has successfully tied him to the bed frame with a phone charger, but not before he was able to bite her. With nothing to aid her other than a phone and a musical keyboard, a weak and tired Emily must figure out how to prevent herself becoming a zombie before it’s too late.

2021

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles 2023

8.00

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller.

2023

Giselle

Giselle 2006

7.00

Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Its title role, one of the most technically demanding and emotionally challenging in the classical repertory, is here danced by Alina Cojocaru, partnered by Johan Kobborg as Count Albrecht. This tale of the transcendental power of love over death is evocatively portrayed through Peter Wright’s sensitive staging and John Macfarlane’s designs, which beautifully contrast the human and supernatural worlds – mastered from a High Definition recording and true surround sound. Conductor : Boris Gruzin Orchestra : The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

2006

War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme 2014

9.50

The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is often overlooked, however, is the literary importance of the Somme: more writers and poets fought in it than in any other battle in history. Narrated by Michael Sheen, War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the battle. The work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg and JRR Tolkien (who arrived at the Western Front with ambitions to be a poet) was informed and transformed by the battle. Taken together, their experiences allow us to see this dreadful historical event through multiple points of view. The film uses animation, documentary accounts, surviving artefacts, battalion war diaries and the landscape itself to reconnect this literature to the events that inspired it.

2014