Britain Movies

3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments continue...

Cult favourite Matt Berry offers his unique take on Brexit, in this one-off comedy special to mark the passing of the Article 50 deadline. Reuniting...

Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration int...

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

Twenty-six-year-old Shani Warren was found drowned in Taplow Lake, Buckinghamshire, with her hands tied and feet bound together in 1987. Revealing how...

In the blistering hot summer of 1984, a sadistic predator is terrorising rural Britain. This is the story of the desperate police manhunt for The Fox,...

Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year. While politicians argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, we ask t...

Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the sight of bulky men in latex and the most masculine m...

As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank chart...

After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs are for the first time seeing the light of day. In t...

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are no...

Shown as part of the BBC's Modern Times series. Think of England shows Parr talking to the many people he encountered in the summer of 1999. He innoce...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

This BBC Three film follows the first all Asian girls’ cricket team over the summer holidays as they train for their last ever tournament together. Th...

A history of the American War of Independence.

A short animation using the individual entries from within The Archive of the Irish in Britain as a new entry on each frame of the character's journey...

British animation short from Paul Vester.

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest In...