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- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsJohn HurtJoanne WhalleyBridget FondaBased on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
- StarsSophie CooksonJames NortonEllie BamberStory of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.
- DirectorRobert SpaffordStarsYvonne BuckinghamJohn Drew BarrymoreAlicia BrandetA teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsMalcolm McDowellDavid WoodRichard WarwickIn this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsRay WinstoneMick FordJulian FirthAn uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsMichael RedgraveTom CourtenayAvis BunnageA young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
- DirectorLexi AlexanderStarsElijah WoodCharlie HunnamClaire ForlaniA wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
- DirectorPeter CattaneoStarsRobert CarlyleTom WilkinsonMark AddySix unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisPete PostlethwaiteAlison CrosbieAn Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
- CreatorPeter MorganStarsClaire FoyOlivia ColmanImelda StauntonFollows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsHelen MirrenMichael SheenJames CromwellAfter the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsBob HoskinsHelen MirrenPaul FreemanAn up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason StathamBrad PittStephen GrahamUnscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
- DirectorTom HooperStarsColm MeaneyHenry GoodmanDavid RoperThe story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsFrances McDormandMaurice RoëvesRobert PattersonWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsJames NesbittTim Pigott-SmithNicholas FarrellA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsHarrison FordSean BeanAnne ArcherWhen CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
- CreatorKatie BoxerPolly GreethamRachel Kay-WilliamsStarsNorman TebbitMichael HeseltineBernard InghamAn in-depth examination of Margaret Thatcher, her rise to power, and the changes brought forth by her years in leadership. Told without narration, the story uses archive film and the testimonies of those who knew her personally, and most of all, politically.
- DirectorTim SullivanStarsSylvia SymsBruce AlexanderHenry AyrtonThe events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister in 1990.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard AttenboroughJack HawkinsFlora RobsonAnachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
- DirectorStephen DaldryStarsJamie BellJulie WaltersJean HeywoodA talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDave JohnsHayley SquiresSharon PercyAfter surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsEileen ThompsonJulian Tudor HartDai WaltersA documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKierston WareingJuliet EllisLeslaw ZurekAfter being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.
- DirectorNigel ColeStarsSally HawkinsBob HoskinsAndrea RiseboroughA dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsHugh BonnevilleGillian AndersonManish DayalThe final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
- StarsLekaa El KhamisyFadi GhaliMagdy KamelThe biography of Egyptian political leader Gamal Abdel Nasser .
- DirectorÉlie ChouraquiStarsJJ FeildSaïd TaghmaouiMaria PapasA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsWilliam HoldenSusannah YorkCapucinePolitical and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
- StarsClaire FoyChristian CookeItay TiranA young British girl travels to Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
- DirectorPhyllida LloydStarsMeryl StreepJim BroadbentRichard E. GrantAn elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsMichael SheenDemetri GoritsasAdam GodleyA dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
- DirectorTrevor NunnStarsJudi DenchSophie CooksonStephen Campbell MooreThe story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.
- DirectorDominic CookeStarsBenedict CumberbatchMerab NinidzeRachel BrosnahanBusinessman Greville Wynne is asked by a Russian source to try to help put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- DirectorGavin HoodStarsKeira KnightleyMatt SmithMatthew GoodeThe true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- DirectorMick JacksonStarsRachel WeiszTom WilkinsonTimothy SpallAcclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
- StarsBen MacintyreDavid OakesWilliam BeckThe story of Kim Philby, one of the famous Cambridge spies, who was a double agent for the KGB while working in a position of trust for the British secret service. The person he betrayed more than anybody else was his close friend and superior in the British secret service, Nicholas Elliott.
- StarsTom HollanderToby StephensRupert Penry-JonesThe true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMichael CaineKarl MaldenEd BegleyBritish spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsThomas TurgooseStephen GrahamJo HartleyA young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsAlbert FinneyShirley Anne FieldRachel RobertsA rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsMichael CaineShelley WintersMillicent MartinAn unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsAlan BatesJune RitchieThora HirdAfter his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRichard BurtonClaire BloomMary UreA disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsTom CourtenayJulie ChristieWilfred PicklesA lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsLaurence OlivierSimone SignoretRoland CulverA British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
- StarsNaomi AckieGary BeadleKhali BestSmall Axe is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsJim BroadbentHeather CraneyStephen RashbrookIn 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
- DirectorBiyi BandeleStarsChiwetel EjioforThandiwe NewtonAnika Noni RoseSisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
- DirectorKunle AfolayanStarsSadiq DabaKayode OlaiyaAdemola AdedoyinAs Nigeria prepares for independence from the British in 1960, a seasoned police detective rushes to find the serial killer slaughtering its native young women.
- CreatorJohn RidleyStarsBabou CeesayNathaniel Martello-WhiteDaniel MaysA pair of activists in 1970s London set out to free a political prisoner and wage a resistance movement.
- CreatorLeon GriffithsStarsGeorge ColeGlynn EdwardsDennis WatermanRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. Can his ex-boxer bodyguard Terry stay level-headed whilst working for the King of Dodgy Deals?
- DirectorVincent WoodsStarsStephen TompkinsonGillian KearneyRonnie FoxAmongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime-ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes involved in. saving what little decency and community life exists. It's the winter of 1974: power cuts and coal strikes cripple the country, which is reduced to a three-day working week alongside police 'centralisation'. Everything, it seems, is falling apart -- along with the community's only hope and protector, the nearly retired Detective Sergeant Barry Harrigan.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsSteve CooganLennie JamesJohn ThomsonIn 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
- DirectorDavid RobertsonStarsArthur BakerMark 'Bez' BerryTim Booth
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsTim RothTerry RichardsBill StewartAfter being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsEschel RhoodieMike TerryA documentary about the covert work carried out by South African intelligence agencies on British soil.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsCharles BoltonBilly HamonRoland CulverThe true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.
- DirectorKen HornStarsRobert DawsAlex McGettiganPeter LorenzelliA factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during, and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the River Thames in August 1989, killing over 50 people.
- CreatorCraig PearceStarsToby WallaceAnson BoonSydney ChandlerBased on the memoir of Steve Jones, the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist who helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain.
- DirectorSonia AndersonStarsNeal BarryPaul CookSteve DiorDuring the past 3 decades, the sex pistols have gone from a rebellious and highly controversial musical phenomenon to national treasures, igniting the Punk movement in Britain and influencing pop and rock music ever since. Hear the band tell their story with rare insights of their highs and lows, from their humble beginnings to the pinnacle of their success to the suspicious death of Nancy Spungen.
- DirectorNikos GiannikasAntonis SpinoulasStarsPavlos KontoyannidisNikos GiannikasAntonis SpinoulasNever Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (or simply Never Mind The Bollocks) is the only studio album by the highly influential and controversial English punk rock band The Sex Pistols. Fans and critics alike generally regard it as an extremely important album in the history of rock music, citing the lasting influence it has had on subsequent punk rock musicians, as well as other musical gen
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsCharlie WattsA career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.
- StarsRobin EllisAlec Douglas-HomeSisir Kumar BoseSeries looking at the end of British imperial rule in various states.
- StarsPeter Dickson
- StarsBen MilesMohamed AudaTalaat BadrawiA British documentary focusing on the Suez Crisis of 1956.
- DirectorLouise HooperStarsAndrew BicknellTrevor BishopCrispin Bonham-CarterThe story of the Suez Crisis, how Britian invaded Egypt 50 years ago, making President Nasser a national hero and British prime Minister Anthony Eden a national disgrace.
- DirectorMichael DarlowStarsMichael GoughRobert StephensRichard VernonIn 1956, the British Prime Minister Anthony Eden grapples with the Suez Crisis, which brings an end to his political career.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGary KempMartin KempBillie WhitelawThis fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsRoger DaltreyAdam FaithCheryl CampbellJohn McVicar was a notorious London criminal known as "Public Enemy No. 1" for armed bank robberies. He was captured and imprisoned in a high security facility, but continued attempting escapes.
- DirectorNick LoveStarsDanny DyerFrank HarperTamer HassanAn insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.
- DirectorDominic AncianoRay BurdisStarsSadie FrostJonny Lee MillerJude LawA north London postman gets involved with a gang of criminals.
- DirectorJustin HardyStarsIain GlenNigel LindsayJemma RedgraveWith the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, safety did not come to its 60,000 prisoners right away. Starring Iain Glen, this award-winning movie recalls the actual events that transpired at Belsen as the British fought typhus, starvation and their own humanity. Brought to you by XiveTV.
- StarsRosamund PikeKate WilliamsEd OwensThe Windsors: Inside the Royal Dynasty. The series tells the incredible, dramatic and emotional tale of the British Royal Family known as The Windsors. Using stunning archive and interviews with insiders and experts, the series weaves together the true story of the Windsor dynasty.
- DirectorAdrian ShergoldStarsTimothy SpallJuliet StevensonEddie MarsanThe life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
- DirectorDaniel GordonStarsGeorge BestAngie BestCalum BestThe rise and fall of football superstar, George Best.
- DirectorMary McGuckianStarsJohn LynchIan BannenJerome FlynnPulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed the fifth Beatle for his glamorous lifestyle and good looks.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsDaniel BrühlChris HemsworthOlivia WildeThe merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
- DirectorEdward McGownStarsSusanna ReidColin SuttonFor 17 years, a serial rapist known as 'The Night Stalker' terrorised the elderly population of South London. In this film, senior officers from the case tell the extraordinary story of how a 17 day stakeout - one of the largest the Met police has ever staged - finally brought him to justice.
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsMartin ClunesJude AkuwudikeSara GregoryDCI Sutton is tasked with reviewing a 17-year ongoing serial rape case, Operation Minstead.
- DirectorEdward McGownStarsSusanna ReidColin SuttonFor 17 years, a serial rapist known as 'The Night Stalker' terrorised the elderly population of South London. In this film, senior officers from the case tell the extraordinary story of how a 17 day stakeout - one of the largest the Met police has ever staged - finally brought him to justice.
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsMartin ClunesMatt BardockMatthew GravelleColin presents his review findings to DCS Hamish Campbell and suggests a strategy called 'Minstead Lite', but Hamish wants Colin to stay on to see this new approach through. Meanwhile, DC Spier's informant suggests that she has found one of the pieces of jewelry that was stolen from a Minstead victim.
- StarsGuy PearceDamian LewisAnna Maxwell MartinIn England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union.
- StarsMatthew MacfadyenSimon GreenallKevin McNallyA British politician fakes his own death.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsJohn HurtLiz GebhardtPatricia HodgeThe life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.
- DirectorAysha RafaeleJoseph BullmanStarsAimee-Ffion EdwardsPoppy Lee FriarCraig ParkinsonIn a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, Megan presses a pregnant colleague to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her fetus at risk.
- StarsStephen GrahamAndrew EllisLeanne BestA journalist tries to uncover the plans of a neo-Nazi organization that has been involved in the murder of an MP.
- StarsToby JonesMonica DolanJulie HesmondhalghOne of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
- DirectorDavid WheatleyStarsKathy BatesColin FirthCiarán HindsThis is the story of Peggy Say and her battle to free the hostages in Beirut. Witness the cruel abduction of innocent citizens thrown into the dark, insect infested cells and abandoned by their homelands.
- DirectorBen TaylorStarsThomasin McKenzieCharlie MurphyBill Nighy3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon. facing opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world's first 'test tube baby', Louise Joy Brown.