Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as h...

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. ...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing wo...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...