Movies: Richard Attenborough

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead hi...

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together....

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid....

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers....

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginni...

This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions...

A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show but premiered in its entirety at the Royal Festival Hall...

A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work wi...

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — name...

Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as actor stretches from Brighton Rock to Jurassic Park, while as director he has been responsible for Oh! ...

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen....

Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career....

Close friends, family and world leaders profile the life of the princess. Narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough....

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents....

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee....

The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' features video clips of surviving cast and crew, including Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, and Neile Adams, the former Mrs. Steve McQueen. The program's 65 minute runtime, which is divided into six featurettes o...

A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname....

A look at Charlie Chaplin and his rise to fame....

Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the words of the film's subject himself, "the only portrait which really understood me." Sellers was an icon of comedy and a true innovator, but a look inside...