Carl Davis Movies

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and...

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in...

Based on the 1907 autobiography "Father and Son" by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter adapted only one section...

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

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC...

Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been...

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is...

TV play by Jim Hawkins based on real events in Russia and the USA just after the Bolshevik Revolution.

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

L. S. Lowry, one of the most celebrated English painters from the mid 20th century, liked to call himself just a "simple man". But was he?

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate...

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.