Movies

A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however,...

A documentary about cutting film... the way it used to be done.

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a...

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st...

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete...

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and...

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living...

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.