Life Begins is a British television drama first broadcast on ITV between February 2004 and October 2006, starring Caroline Quentin and Alexander Armstrong, Anne Reid and Frank Finlay.
Family life is turned upside down when it's revealed that the daughter's pregnant by her teacher.
Following their marriage, Ian and Lisa move back to the village where she grew up, a village still dominated by her family. In order to try to fit in, Ian takes a job as the village photographer, a profession for which he is not really cut out.
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
During the WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive. The movie tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist living in Warsaw during World War II. As the war breaks out, the situation for the Jewish population in Warsaw becomes increasingly bleak. Wladyslaw, along with his family, is forced to move to the Jewish ghetto and endure harsh living conditions. Despite the hardships, Wladyslaw manages to find work as a pianist in the ghetto, which allows him to continue playing music and bring some solace to those around him. However, as the war progresses, the situation becomes more dangerous and Wladyslaw must go into hiding to avoid capture. He spends months living in various hiding places, relying on the help of others to survive. Ultimately, he is discovered by a Nazi officer who recognizes his talent as a pianist and helps him evade capture. Wladyslaw survives the war, but many of his family members do not. The movie ends with Wladyslaw triumphantly playing the piano in a concert, a symbol of his resilience and survival.
Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertakers run by his uncle. However, his resolve to stay out of the criminal world is tested by temptations based on the seven deadly sins.
Another Bouquet, Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the tangled sexual and emotional relationships of a middle-class family as it is torn apart by its own tangled sexual relationships.
A four-part miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979.
The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.
In The Key, a woman finds her husband's diary and becomes obsessed with his past, uncovering a world of erotic fantasies, voyeurism, and sexual exploration. As she delves deeper into his secrets, she becomes entangled in a web of lust, betrayal, and obsession.
During a mission to investigate Halley's Comet, a crew discovers an alien spaceship filled with desiccated corpses. They bring one of the corpses back to Earth, unknowingly unleashing a space vampire that starts feeding on human energy, leading to a city-wide apocalypse.
Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save his own existence.
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
Professor Norman Wedgwood is the head of an experimental rocket group on remote Buchan Island in Scotland. His children, Geoff, Valerie and Jimmy visit him to watch the launch of his latest rocket, along with journalist Conway Henderson. When the pilot is taken ill, Jimmy finds himself taking his place on a mission to the Moon along with his pet hamster, Hamlet. After several harrowing hours in space, Jimmy, Hamlet and the rocket are finally brought down to Earth.
In 17th century France, a country bumpkin named D'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the Musketeers. He becomes friends with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and together they embark on a series of adventures and duels to protect the king and queen from the treacherous Cardinal Richelieu.
Inspector Clouseau, an incompetent but enthusiastic detective, is assigned to solve a high-profile crime. With his clumsy and unorthodox methods, he hilariously stumbles through a series of misadventures, causing chaos and confusion wherever he goes.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 movie about a group of ageing mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped diplomat in Africa. They face various challenges and obstacles as they navigate through the dangerous landscape of a war-torn country.
In this second installment of the trilogy, the Four Musketeers find themselves entangled in a web of political intrigue as they navigate the dangers of courtly life in France. With love triangles, sword duels, and an ensemble cast, they must protect their king and queen from treacherous forces.
Murder by Decree is a period drama that follows Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the Jack the Ripper murders in 19th century London. With a conspiracy involving Freemasons and British royalty, Holmes uncovers a web of deceit and danger.