John Gielgud
Aithnichte airson: Acting
Co-là-breith: 1904-04-14
Àite breith: South Kensington, London, England, UK
Cuideachd aithnichte mar: Arthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, A Gentleman, Джон Гилгуд
Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur....
Saoradh : 1965.12.22Popularity : 9.64
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
Saoradh : 1982.12.01Popularity : 19.084
Frankenstein
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Saoradh : 1984.06.17Popularity : 3.922
Frankenstein: The True Story
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
Saoradh : 1974.09.19Popularity : 7
To Be Hamlet
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...
Saoradh : 1985.01.19Popularity : 1.326
Hamlet: The Actor's View
One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title character with which he used to be intimately...
Saoradh : 1954.05.16Popularity : 0.93
The Elephant Man
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...
Saoradh : 1980.10.09Popularity : 32.955
David
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to...
Saoradh : 1997.03.23Popularity : 11.582
Secret Agent
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to...
Saoradh : 1936.05.31Popularity : 8.14
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Saoradh : 1974.11.22Popularity : 22.063
Appointment with Death
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed...
Saoradh : 1988.04.15Popularity : 10.295
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
Saoradh : 1978.12.27Popularity : 6.614
Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the...
Saoradh : 1998.09.13Popularity : 14.957
Prospero's Books
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this...
Saoradh : 1991.08.30Popularity : 6.533
Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...
Saoradh : 1969.03.10Popularity : 6.53
First Knight
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to...
Saoradh : 1995.07.07Popularity : 15.447
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie...
Saoradh : 1984.01.01Popularity : 4.997
The Formula
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a...
Saoradh : 1980.12.19Popularity : 6.069
Shining Through
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World...
Saoradh : 1992.01.31Popularity : 15.364
DragonHeart
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last...
Saoradh : 1996.05.31Popularity : 17.674
Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...
Saoradh : 1981.05.15Popularity : 17.209
Caligula
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and...
Saoradh : 1979.08.14Popularity : 46.951
The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold...
Saoradh : 1986.11.21Popularity : 11.112
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way...
Saoradh : 1988.07.08Popularity : 9.534
Lion of the Desert
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a...
Saoradh : 1981.04.17Popularity : 11.169
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using...
Saoradh : 1979.02.01Popularity : 9.809
Arthur
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Saoradh : 1981.07.17Popularity : 14.451
The Power of One
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet....
Saoradh : 1992.03.27Popularity : 14.095
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...
Saoradh : 1966.12.28Popularity : 8.348
Plenty
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Saoradh : 1985.09.20Popularity : 3.456
The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...
Saoradh : 1968.04.10Popularity : 9.179
Julius Caesar
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the...
Saoradh : 1970.06.04Popularity : 9.489
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
Saoradh : 1955.12.13Popularity : 10.223
Becket
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...
Saoradh : 1964.03.11Popularity : 18.201
Aces High
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate....
Saoradh : 1976.05.19Popularity : 11.989
The Scarlet and the Black
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families....
Saoradh : 1983.02.02Popularity : 10.118
The Loved One
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable...
Saoradh : 1965.10.11Popularity : 17.221
Time After Time
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his...
Saoradh : 1986.01.26Popularity : 1.427
Sphinx
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love,...
Saoradh : 1981.02.11Popularity : 7.33
The Canterville Ghost
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the...
Saoradh : 1986.12.31Popularity : 5.737
The Human Factor
A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his...
Saoradh : 1979.12.18Popularity : 9.683
The Leopard Son
The true story of the birth, growth and coming of age of a leopard cub in Africa's Serengeti plain. The journey of "The Leopard Son" begins at his...
Saoradh : 1996.09.27Popularity : 3.957
Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Saoradh : 1953.06.04Popularity : 19.341
Gold
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by...
Saoradh : 1974.06.08Popularity : 14.488
Haunted
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family....
Saoradh : 1995.10.27Popularity : 15.929
Priest of Love
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico....
Saoradh : 1981.10.11Popularity : 1.981
Quest for Camelot
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants...
Saoradh : 1998.05.15Popularity : 22.35
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...
Saoradh : 1982.02.02Popularity : 7.406
The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University.
Saoradh : 1977.04.10Popularity : 1.341
Catastrophe
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic...
Saoradh : 2001.09.01Popularity : 2.289
Providence
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing...
Saoradh : 1977.01.25Popularity : 5.792
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the...
Saoradh : 1981.03.08Popularity : 6.594
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
Saoradh : 1973.01.03Popularity : 2.104
Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one...
Saoradh : 1954.09.01Popularity : 4.97
The Shooting Party
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal...
Saoradh : 1985.02.01Popularity : 7.903
Lost Horizon
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue...
Saoradh : 1973.03.14Popularity : 4.522
The Good Companions
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Saoradh : 1933.02.28Popularity : 1.031
Quartermaine's Terms
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly...
Saoradh : 1987.03.29Popularity : 2.383
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...
Saoradh : 1962.04.17Popularity : 1.399
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the...
Saoradh : 1980.03.30Popularity : 3.649
Saint Joan
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many...
Saoradh : 1957.05.08Popularity : 5.522
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Saoradh : 1964.09.23Popularity : 1.663
The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
Saoradh : 1983.04.21Popularity : 6.91
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...
Saoradh : 1977.09.01Popularity : 1.961
A Diary for Timothy
A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.
Saoradh : 1945.12.31Popularity : 4.528
To Die in Madrid
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the...
Saoradh : 1963.04.18Popularity : 3.117
Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance...
Saoradh : 1968.05.01Popularity : 6.4
The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England...
Saoradh : 1984.01.31Popularity : 1.114
A Man for All Seasons
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his...
Saoradh : 1988.12.21Popularity : 3.912
Scandalous
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Saoradh : 1984.01.29Popularity : 1.875
No Man's Land
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...
Saoradh : 1978.10.03Popularity : 2.181
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Saoradh : 1957.01.16Popularity : 4.234
Galileo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion...
Saoradh : 1975.01.27Popularity : 6.181
Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...
Saoradh : 1984.12.11Popularity : 2.845
Eagle in a Cage
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Saoradh : 1972.01.09Popularity : 4.801
Probe
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner,...
Saoradh : 1972.02.21Popularity : 1.118
Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...
Saoradh : 1977.03.09Popularity : 2.966
Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...
Saoradh : 2011.11.01Popularity : 5.572
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother upon his death.
Saoradh : 1941.06.05Popularity : 1.863
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and...
Saoradh : 1968.05.10Popularity : 0.844
The Critic
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical...
Saoradh : 1982.08.28Popularity : 0.844
A Summer Day's Dream
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in...
Saoradh : 1994.11.26Popularity : 3.97
Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
Saoradh : 2005.10.15Popularity : 0.596
Swan Song
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre. The film was nominated for an Oscar...
Saoradh : 1992.01.01Popularity : 8.147
The Best of Friends
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun),...
Saoradh : 1991.01.01Popularity : 2.281
Ages of Man
Performance of extracts from The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a collection of speeches in Shakespeare's plays....
Saoradh : 1966.01.23Popularity : 0.456
Invitation to the Wedding
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Saoradh : 1983.01.01Popularity : 4.732
11 Harrowhouse
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is...
Saoradh : 1974.09.26Popularity : 3.407
Richard II
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet...
Saoradh : 1978.12.10Popularity : 2.125
Romance on the Orient Express
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who...
Saoradh : 1985.03.04Popularity : 2.408
Looking for Richard
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of...
Saoradh : 1996.10.11Popularity : 9.451
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Saoradh : 1996.12.25Popularity : 17.609
Home
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Saoradh : 1972.01.06Popularity : 1.469
Sebastian
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian...
Saoradh : 1968.01.24Popularity : 5.737
The Prime Minister
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Saoradh : 1941.03.04Popularity : 0.913
Getting It Right
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady...
Saoradh : 1989.05.05Popularity : 2.041
The Portrait of a Lady
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill...
Saoradh : 1996.10.17Popularity : 16.246
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero...
Saoradh : 1992.01.01Popularity : 1.467
Insult
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Saoradh : 1932.07.27Popularity : 1.469
Shine
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Saoradh : 1996.08.15Popularity : 11.881
Inside the Third Reich
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based...
Saoradh : 1982.05.09Popularity : 2.065
The Mayfly and the Frog
When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.
Saoradh : 1966.12.21Popularity : 1.214
The Conductor
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned...
Saoradh : 1980.02.27Popularity : 5.02
Heredity in Man
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
Saoradh : 1937.01.01Popularity : 2.008
The Immortal Land
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
Saoradh : 1958.01.01Popularity : 0.715
A TV Dante
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos...
Saoradh : 1990.06.13Popularity : 1.479
Leave All Fair
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The...
Saoradh : 1985.06.24Popularity : 0.78
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.
Saoradh : 1992.03.01Popularity : 1.77
The Shoes of the Fisherman
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...
Saoradh : 1968.11.14Popularity : 14.993
Around the World in Eighty Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...
Saoradh : 1956.10.17Popularity : 12.62
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet,...
Saoradh : 2016.07.18Popularity : 2.386
Strike It Rich
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
Saoradh : 1990.01.26Popularity : 4.262
The Picture of Dorian Gray
In Victorian England, handsome Dorian Gray makes a Faustian deal that his portrait painted by Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett) will age while he remains...
Saoradh : 1976.09.19Popularity : 4.416
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done by...
Saoradh : 1987.10.12Popularity : 1.177
Romeo and Juliet
BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
Saoradh : 1967.03.12Popularity : 0.964
Who Is the Man?
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother ,...
Saoradh : 1924.09.01Popularity : 0.593
Romeo & Juliet
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil...
Saoradh : 1978.12.03Popularity : 10.485
The Clue of the New Pin
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
Saoradh : 1929.03.01Popularity : 0.858
The Tichborne Claimant
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American...
Saoradh : 1998.08.01Popularity : 3.078
Heartbreak House
Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge...
Saoradh : 1977.05.19Popularity : 0.661
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
Saoradh : 1986.09.16Popularity : 1.111
Theban Plays: Antigone
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of...
Saoradh : 1986.09.19Popularity : 5.669
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark...
Saoradh : 1976.12.12Popularity : 5.137
October Revolution
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock...
Saoradh : 1967.10.11Popularity : 1.224
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...
Saoradh : 1991.10.28Popularity : 9.554
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Semi-Biographical film documenting the life of The Reverend Wilbert Awdry, creator of the beloved Thomas The tank Engine Stories
Saoradh : 1995.02.25Popularity : 2
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews. John Gielgud reads from...
Saoradh : 1998.01.01Popularity : 0.714
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...
Saoradh : 1991.03.06Popularity : 1.038
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
Saoradh : 1988.09.20Popularity : 1.842
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Saoradh : 1990.10.22Popularity : 5.152
Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...
Saoradh : 2018.05.02Popularity : 4.658
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.
Saoradh : 1953.01.01Popularity : 2.011