Ann Scott-Jones

Bir petrol firmasının multimilyoner sahibi Happer (Burt Lancaster), Mac (Peter Riegert) adlı genci İskoçya’ya rafineri kurması amacıyla gönderir. Ancak bu rafineriyi kurabilmesi için küçük Ferness kasabasının tamamını almak zorundadır. İşin ilginç tarafı ise, köy sakinleri yaşadıkları yeri elden çıkarmaya dünden razıdır. Satır aralarında, dünyadaki her yerde ve tüm halklar üzerinde inisiyatif kullanabilme hakları olduğunu varsayan Amerikan davranış biçimini "ti"ye alan film, yönetmen Forsyth’e festivallarde pek çok ödül kazandırdı.

Belle & Sebastian adlı müzik grubunun üyesi olan Stuart Murdoch tarqafından yönetilen film, Eve isimli genç kadının kişisel problemlerinden arınmak ve hayatını düzene koymak için müziğe sığınmasını ele alıyor. İskoçya'nın Glasgow kentinde geçen hikayede, genç Eve geçirdiği ağır ruhsal problemler ve depresyonlar nedeniyle hastanede tedavi altına alınmıştır. Burada terapi görmekte olan Eve, günlük problemlerini aşmak için besteler yapmaya başlar. Müzikle bütünleşmesi tedavi sürecini hızlandırır ve nihayetinde taburcu edilir. Hastaneden çıktıktan sonra müzikle ilgilenmeye devam eden genç kadın, James ve Cassie ile tanışacağı şehre giderek yeni bir maceraya atılır.

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchhiker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.

A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals.

"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.

Following the death of her mother, Sarah, a Californian teenager, is sent to live with her father in the Scottish Highlands. After a riding accident she is befriended by a fascinating old hermit named Fergus, who has spent his life living in the mountains and whose home is a haven for wounded animals. Through her friendship with Fergus, Sarah discovers the beautiful legendary Princess Stallion and embarks upon the adventure of a lifetime.

The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.