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.

When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers boards a magical train at Christmas, he discovers ...

Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety sh...

As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitr...

The true story of Bosco, a young musician orphaned and blinded by the 1993 Burundian genocide, is ta...

14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication ce...

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s...

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll....

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and N...

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...

Members of a racially mixed cast of self-confessed murderers is transformed by acting in a play abou...

Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everyt...

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and...

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, ...

At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, befor...

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

Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost so...

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...

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