Carl Davis Movies

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...

TV play by Jim Hawkins based on real events in Russia and the USA just after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of...

In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is...

L. S. Lowry, one of the most celebrated English painters from the mid 20th century, liked to call himself just a "simple man". But was he?

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster...

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks...

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been...

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in...