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

Eye of the Needle (1981)

Director: Richard Marquand

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove

Englishmen know him as Faber, but to the Fatherland, he's the loyal and lethal spy known as "The Needle". On his way back to Germany, Faber is shipwre... Read more

Dracula (1979)

Director: John Badham

Starring: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Sylvester McC...

Dracula returns in the 1979 retelling of the classic tale as directed by John Badham. This rendition, which was similarly adapted from the Broadway pl... Read more

Accident (1967)

Director: Joseph Losey

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard, Stanley Baker

The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this diffi... Read more