Movies: Nigel Hawthorne

This special one-off documentary celebrates the past and present of hit sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Exploring the shows in some depth, the programme will feature the thoughts of some of the biggest names in politics, including Lord...

This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission....

Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity....

Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no me...

Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play....

A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today....

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Ed...

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works....

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community....

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham....

Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her money?...

Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided n...

This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman. Altogether, this movie portrays the events of a weekend party at an English country house....

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime....

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel....

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby....

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone....

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election and later discovers his financed by the corporation that has dispossessed him of his business....

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe....

The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus...