Filmo „Tamsiausia valanda“ veiksmas žiūrovą nukelia į Antrojo pasaulinio karo pradžią, kuomet į premjero postą įžengęs W. Churchillis turi priimti sunkiausią gyvenimo sprendimą. Tarsi viesulas po Vakarų Europą riedanti nacių armija jau netrukus pasieks Anglijos krantus. Suvokdamas, jog įsiveržimas – neišvengiamas, premjeras susiduria su aibe kliūčių – skeptiškai karo atžvilgiu nusiteikusiu karaliumi, nepasiruošusia visuomene, nesutarimais partijos viduje ir spaudimu eiti į derybas su nacistine Vokietija. Ką sunkiausią britams valandą nuspręs W. Churchillis – pamynus savo įsitikinimus stos į derybas su Hitleriu ar iš paskutiniųjų gins savo šalies piliečių teises ir laisvę? Ar patirdamas partijos ir karaliaus spaudimą vyras sugebės priimti vienintelį teisingą sprendimą, pakeisiantį jo šalies istoriją?
Henrikui VIII nusibodo senstanti žmona Kotryna Aragonietė, kuri nesugebėjo pagimdyti jam sūnaus. Jo akys pastebi žavią Aną Bolein, ką tik grįžusią iš viešnagės Prancūzijos karaliaus rūmuose. Gražuolė įsimylėjusi Harį Persį ir nėra lengvas grobis. Jai netinka karaliaus sugulovės, kuria anksčiau buvo jos sesuo, dalia. Kardinolas Volzis pradeda derybas su popiežiumi dėl karaliaus skyrybų. Popiežius griežtai atsisako išskirti Henriką su Kotryna, todėl Henrikas nutraukia ryšius su Romos katalikų bažnyčia ir pasiskelbia anglikonų bažnyčios galva.
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Halas, paklydėlis princas ir Anglijos sosto paveldėtojas, yra karūnuojamas Karaliumi Henriu 5-uoju, po jo tirono tėvo mirties. Dabar jaunasis karalius turi vykdyti rūmų politiką, ieškoti taikos kare, kurį jam paliko tėvas ir kovoti su asmeniniais sentimentais praeičiai.
1940 m. Karališkosios oro pajėgos stoja į žūtbūtinę kovą su Liuftvafės galybe, kad užvaldytų dangų virš Didžiosios Britanijos ir užkirstų kelią nacių invazijai į Didžiąją Britaniją.
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has been abandoned on the coast of Aotearoa NZ by the East India Company, alongside his sealing gang. When Dasa finds himself in the middle of a conflict between his abusive British superior and two Māori traders, he is faced with a choice: bend the knee or take a stand.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British history. Constructed using primary source documents about the taking of Zhoushan, Britain's first choice for a seaport, in the late 1830s,this movie uses Captain Charles Elliot's reluctance to brutalize the Chinese to reflect on the cyclical nature of history and the power structures that move it. The long takes used throughout function to illustrate the dramatically different ways in which people who lived in the mid-19th century perceived time. Additionally, it represents the psychological effect of living on an island regardless of what era you were born in.The last third of the movie focuses on a young woman whose strange day job has taken her far away from the island of Zhoushan generations after Captain Charles Elliot was last there. "Captain Elliot's Circle" was shot on location in Zhoushan and Hangzhou.
Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the authority of the church and state.
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course of English history. An account of the life of the extraordinary Norman warrior who became king.
At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a mission to understand the roots of this strange, intensely problematic cultural form: where did the show come from, and what made it popular for so long? With the help of historians, actors and musicians, David uncovers how, at its core, blackface minstrelsy was simply an attempt to make racism into an art form - and can be traced back to a name and a date.
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.