Nigel Davenport

İngiltere'nin en iyi atletleri 1924 Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda zafer maceralarına başladılar.... Kazandıkları başarı uluslarına gurur getirdi. İki koşucu bu, kişisel bir onur ve mücadeleleri yürekten gelen bir mücadeleydi... 1981 Akademi Ödülleri'nde en iyi film ödülü dahil olmak üzere 4 dalda ödül kazanan Ateş Arabaları'nda, İngiltere'ye en büyük spor zaferlerinden birini getiren, Harold Abraham, Eric Liddell ve takımlarının gerçek hikayesinden esinlenilmiştir...

Vahşi güzelliğiyle seyirciyi derinden etkileyen bu destansı film, ergenliğini Afrika'nın gorilleriyle geçirip daha sonra aristokrasideki yerini almak için İngiltere'ye dönen, iki ayrı dünya arasında sıkışmış Tarzan'ın hikayesi.

Michael Powell'in kariyerini mahveden kötü şöhretli filmi Peeping Tom'da (Röntgenci), kameranın saldırgan bir obje olarak kullanımı filme rahatsız edici bir hava katmıştır. Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) isimli bir genç, kendisini kadınlara belgesel yönetmeni olarak tanıtır. Ancak kamerasının içinde, filme aldığı kişiyi öldürmek için kullandığı sivri uçlu bir metal vardır. Bu durumu, filmin başında kameranın vizöründen görerek tanık olduğumuz sinir bozucu cinayet kaydıyla öğreniriz.

Gece Şahini, Paris ve Londra’da başlayan gerilim ve entrikanın New York sokaklarında doruğa ulaşacağı sert ve eskimeyen bir hikaye anlatıyor. Avrupa’nın en acımasız teröristi Wulfgar New York’ta olduğunu duyurur ve bomba etkisi yaratır. Sivil polisler, Deke DaSilva ve Willis Fox’a neredeyse imkansız olan Wulfgar’ı yakalama ve durdurma görevi verilir.

Başka bir kadınla evlenmek için karısını boşamak isteyen 8. Henry ile bu duruma ister istemez karışan Sir Thomas More'un öyküsü En iyi film, yönetmen ve aktör (Paul Scofield) dahil alti dalda Oscar kazanan "Her Devrin Adami", Leo McKern ve Orson Welles'li kadrosuyla gerçek bir klasik.

Andrew Braddock, denizin ortasında bir gemi kazası geçirir. Günlerce kürek çekerek sürüklenen bir filikadan sonra, başka bir kazazede ile birlikte bilinmeyen bir adaya vurur. Bu adanın, bilim insanı Dr. Paul Moreau'ya ait olduğu ortaya çıkar. Moreau, Braddock'u misafir olarak karşılar ancak onunla ilgili çok farklı planları vardır. Braddock, adadaki diğer sakinlerle ilgili tuhaf şeyler olduğunu keşfeder. İlk bakışta insan gibi görünen bu varlıkların gerçek doğası çok farklı ve ürperticidir. Dr. Moreau'nun Adası, yazar H.G. Wells'in en ünlü kitap uyarlamalarından biridir.

Cimri Ebenezer Scrooge, Noel arifesinde ruhlar tarafından uyandırılır ve ona kendi sefil varoluşunu, gençliğinde ne gibi fırsatları kaçırdığını, şu anki acımasızlıklarını ve eğer yaşam tarzını değiştirmezse onu bekleyen korkunç kaderi anlatırlar. Scrooge, giderek artan acımasızlık ve kötülüklerle dolu bir hikâyeyle karşı karşıyadır ve geleceğinin ne getireceğine karar vermelidir: Ölüm mü yoksa kurtuluş mu?

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Kuzey Afrika'da İtalyan askeri kılığına girmiş bir grup İngiliz komandosu, düşman hatlarının gerisine geçip hayati önem taşıyan bir Alman petrol deposunu yok etmek zorundadır.

Watson ve "sahte" Holmes (Kincaid), İngiliz ekonomisini çökertmek isteyen kötü adam Profesör Moriarty'nin peşine düşer. Watson gerçek beyin olarak çözüm üretirken, sakar ve hazırlıksız aktör Kincaid de halkın karşısında "büyük dedektif" rolünü oynamaya çalışır. Bu durum birçok komik sahneye yol açar.

Unutulmaz afiş ve açılış jeneriklerine imza atmış, 20. yüzyılın ikonik grafik tasarımcılarından Saul Bass. Kısa filmi ile Oscar kazandıktan hemen sonra, ilk uzun metrajını çekmek için kollarını sıvadığında saygı hak ettiğini düşünebilirsiniz. Ama 1974’te stüdyo yöneticileri için öyle değildi: Bass, karıncalar üzerinden zeki ve stilize bir bilimkurgu yapmak isterken Paramount, filmi klişe bir gişe canavarına çevirmek istiyordu. Bass’in kurgusu onay almadan değiştirildi, montaj sekansından oluşan final kesildi ve film gişede başarısız olunca da kısa sürede unutuldu. Neredeyse 40 yıl sonra, kayıp finalin 35mm makarası bulununca restore edilen film, nihayet hak ettiği değeri hızla geri kazandı.

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.

The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.

The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.

The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.

Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.

Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.

Shirley's World is a British television sitcom initially aired on ABC during the U.S. 1971-72 television season, then by ITV in the United Kingdom. Co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard, the short-lived series stars Shirley MacLaine as photojournalist Shirley Logan and John Gregson as her editor Dennis Croft.