Nyckelord British Politics

Under det första året av den tyska ockupationen av Frankrike bevittnar Shosanna Dreyfus nazistöversten Hans Landas avrättning av hennes familj. Shosanna undkommer nätt och jämnt med livet i behåll och flyr till Paris där hon skapar sig en ny identitet som biografägare. På en annan plats i Europa samlar löjtnant Aldo Raine en grupp judisk-amerikanska soldater för att utföra en rad snabba och skoningslösa hämndaktioner. Raines grupp, som senare blir kända som ”The Basterds” av sina fiender, slår sig samman med den tyska skådespelerskan och infiltratören Bridget von Hammersmark i ett försök att störta Tredje rikets ledare. Allas öden sammanstrålar under en biopremiär där Shosanna har förberett att iscensätta sin alldeles egna hämnd.

En verklighetsbaserad berättelse som utspelar sig i början av andra världskriget, under Winston Churchills första tid som premiärminister. Nyss tillträdd ställs Churchill inför ett av hans mest avgörande val: att försöka mäkla fred med Nazityskland, eller att stå upp för sina ideal och tron på sin nations suveränitet.

London 2008. I sin vackra våning förbereder den åldrade före detta premiärministern Margaret Thatcher frukost till sin man Denis, precis som hon har gjort varje morgon av sitt gifta liv. Men Denis lever bara i hennes fantasi. Fångad i en frustrerande passiv tillvaro och kämpandes mot sin sviktande hälsa, överöses Margaret med minnen. Fragment av privatliv och karriär trängs i hennes hjärna och hon återupplever dem med levande intensitet. Medan hon kämpar för att behålla kontakten med verkligheten, retas och kivas Denis med henne. Kampen, triumferna, sveken – vad åstadkom hon till slut? Och var det värt de uppoffringar hon fick göra?

En skildring av Churchills uppväxt och unga år, från skoltiden och verksamheten som journalist i Afrika till invalet i underhuset.

1943. Under ett stormöte i Berlin framläggs en djärv idé som ska kunna förändra hela världskrigets utgång. Man ska kidnappa Winston Churchill! Via sina infiltratörer har man nämligen fått reda på att premiärministern ska tillbringa en helg i den engelska kustbyn Norfolk - utan bevakning. Hitler gillar idén och beordrar Himmler att sätta planen i verket.

En romantisk dramakomedi om Sir Robert som verkar ha allt; titel, pengar och en vacker fru. Han är allmänt beundrad men en vacker dag hotar den okända fru Cheveley att avslöja en mörk hemlighet från Sir Roberts förflutna. I panik ber han sin vän Lord Goring om hjälp. Filmen bygger på en pjäs av Oscar Wilde.

Storbritanniens premiärminister Winston Churchill fick 1953 en stroke som nästan dödade honom, en händelse som kunde ha fått historiska följder. Den efterföljande sjukdomen doldes inte bara för nationen, utan även för själva regeringen. Pressen var lojal och höll tyst in i det sista.

Nordirland år 2006. Efter åratal av konflikter möts representanter från varsin sida av den politiska skalan för att förhandla. I den ena ringhörnan Ian Paisley, den djupt konservativa ledaren för Democratic Unionist Party. I den andra Sinn Féin-ledaren Martin McGuinness. Under en biltur genom den skotska landsbygden börjar de båda männen att se varandra mindre som fiender och mer som människor - ett genombrott som lovar att äntligen skipa fred i regionen.

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.

In a televised version of the popular podcast, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, and guests chat about the stories behind the news.

Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

A British intelligence officer races against time to uncover a UK politician's potential ties with the Kremlin, risking her reputation and family, as a murder and election loom.

The Politician's Wife is a British television political drama written by Paula Milne, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995 and starring Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson. The story centres around high-flying politician Duncan Matlock, Families Minister for the UK Government, who becomes embroiled in tabloid scandal as it is discovered that he has been having an affair with a former escort turned parliamentary researcher. Duncan's wife Flora becomes the focus of media attention as her reactions to the revelations are played out. Initially she plays out the part of the loyal wife, but as an aide of her husband feeds her details about the affair and various other political scandals that could be made to happen. She begins to sabotage her husband's integrity and reputation through a campaign of leaks and misinformation to the press and British Conservative Party stalwarts. After a series of increasingly sensational and damaging stories in the press, her husband is forced to resign in humiliation. The last episode closes with the results of the by-election being announced on TV. Flora Matlock wins with the support of her party whilst her husband is exiled to a minor post in Belgium.

A 1994 war television miniseries which portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, and concluding with the Tehran Conference.