Gambitt's Move 1975
Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past.
Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past.
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?
BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.
Describes the natural resources of Haida Gwaii and its relationship with the Haida. The video opens with a creation myth and develops in a chronological manner. Each section deals with a resource area and how the Haida have lived in balance with it. It briefly discusses current forestry issues and land rights
Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in the local community.
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
In the documentary, the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the War of Independence and the developments in the first years of the Republic of Turkey are told in parallel. The documentary prepared by Michael Adams consists of recordings made by the BBC in 1970 in Çanakkale, Samsun, Amasya, Sivas and Ankara, as well as historical footage.
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.
On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth.
British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.
Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.
As wealthy Johann Schultz lies close to death in an Irish monastery, his heirs gather round.
In 1985, cameras take a look inside the Berkshire Music Center, the most prominent pre-professional classical music academy in the US. Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin and others work with the next generation younger conducting talent.
Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He complains to her about the state of modern society, but his own problems are about to worsen...
BBC TV documentary
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.