Hollywood - Season 1

The epic story of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who fought for their place on the page, behind the camera and on the screen. From...

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood is a 2011 BBC documentary series written, directed and presented by Paul Merton. The three-part series traces the...

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary,...

A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on...

Paul Merton profiles some of the great stars of silent comedy, examining their lives and works, and uncovering seldom-seen material

Spanish documentary series.

Mammamia! is an Italian television series that aired between 2003 and 2004 , written and directed by Maurizio Nichetti. The series unfolds in thirty...

A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by...

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which...

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, everyone has rebelled against modern technology (electricity, engines, trains etc) and reverted to a pre-Industrial...

A documentary series examining the film making methods and techniques of Charles Chaplin. Featuring previously unseen footage from Chaplin's private...

Wealthy developer Jack Robinson is stunned when a gigantic human skeleton is discovered on his building site. According to a mysterious woman, it is...

In this two-part miniseries adaptation of the classic adventure novel, young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can direct a schooner to an island known...

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people....

There is nowhere more powerful and unforgiving yet more beautiful and compelling than the ocean. Join us and explore the greatest yet least known...

Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name...

Follow new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - dishevelled and...