This was Tibby Clarke’s last Ealing screenplay, the central premise being not unlike his Passport to Pimlico. Here, however, it isn’t the bureaucracy of suburbia that...
‘Yet Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind,’ wrote Byron and his words were taken as the motto for...
Absorbing comedy-drama, Train of Events, which surveys what happens to a variety of people caught up in the crash of a train travelling from Euston to...
Here’s a chance to see how Heathrow looked in the ’50s… Michael Relph and Basil Dearden’s first class Ealing drama Out of the Clouds follows the...
Sir Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton in this delightfully wicked satire of British industry. Stratton is a textile laboratory drone whose life is lacking excitement until...
The detonation of a Second World War bomb in Pimlico uncovers evidence that the neighbourhood was annexed by, and remains a part of, Burgundy. It dawns...
Robert Hamer made his feature film debut as director (after uncredited work on the classic San Demetrio, London) with absorbing period crime melodrama Pink String and...
A seminal film from the Ealing Studios that set out to show ‘fairly and realistically the work of the London police,’ as producer Michael Balcon wrote...
San Demetrio London is a highly regarded Ealing Second World War drama praising the never-say-die spirit of the Allied everyman. Based on a real event, this...
William Rose’s Academy Award-nominated screenplay cast Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus, the rather sinister ‘musician’ who takes lodgings with elderly widow Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). In...
Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert’s significant influence on British culture, governmental policy and even international relations in his short...
Game show in which two pairs of complete strangers team up, each battling to outdo the other by listing as...
Episode 2: George pursues the fruits of his new alliance, but his lingering grief has unexpected consequences, and as Ned...
Kingdom Of The Kims: For decades, Korea and its people laboured under Japanese imperialist rule. But in 1912, in a...
Rove McManus and his crew, Alex Lee, Alex Jae, Justin Hamilton and the unmistakable voice of Judith Lucy, welcome guests...
The Long Walk Home: When 18-year-old Jennifer Teague goes missing while walking home on September 8, 2005, in Ottawa, Ontario,...
For Better or Wurst: The chefs endure a ferocious battle to finish on time in the Wildfire Round, then it’s...
Upstairs Battle: The stairwell and upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms in Rob’s rundown Wellington neighborhood property are in serious need of...
Saving a Family’s Legacy: Robert Irvine comes to the rescue of a Maryland seafood restaurant that has been in the...
Tomb Raiders: An archaeological team makes a discovery that exposes a state-sanctioned looting scandal, while in Cairo, experts in antiquities...
Heaven’s mother Leigh had to escape from Farthinggale Manor and the secrets she harbored. Falling into the arms of Luke,...
Now You See Her: When a magician’s assistant is killed, Frankie goes undercover to find the culprit. But can she...
