Brass is a British comedy-drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was…
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world’s greatest army and liberate her country from…
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent– he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett’s remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt…
The time is the late ’80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National…
Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class…
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for…
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter…
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world’s greatest army and liberate her country from…
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle’s stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces…
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering…
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor…
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel…
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down’s syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls…
