Michael Pennington Movies

As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's...

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Cast: Michael Gambon

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shannon

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Peter Vaughan

A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagines the two 19th century impressionist painters...

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Cast: Michael Pennington

A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sandip Ray

Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Calista Flockhart

In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Pennington

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...

Genre: History

Cast: Aleksandr Medvedkin

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mark Hamill

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicol Williamson

The RAF sprang to life during the First World War. It took off into a dangerous adulthood during the Battle of Britain and the bombing of Germany,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Ian Cusick

When millionaire businessman Guy Taylor takes up with the beautiful Rachel Bell, two years married to a struggling sculptor, he starts to question...

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Cast: Rudolph Walker

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Jayston

A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?

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Cast: Ian Bannen

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian Richardson

Shakespeare's Richard II recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Shakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

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Cast: Ben Bazell

First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Shakespeare's Richard III, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

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Cast: Ben Bazell

Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.

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Cast: Sinéad Cusack

Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Margaret Colin

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Genre: History

Cast: Meryl Streep

The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Fraser

The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Eddington

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Stratton

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Pennington

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Johnson

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Tennant

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Omar Sharif

A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robbie Coltrane

Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's...

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Cast: Jack Shepherd