Andrew Keir

MÖ. 48'de, Roma İmparator'u Sezar Mısır'a sefere çıkmaya karar verir. Ptolemy Sezar'ın güvenini kazanmaya çalışırken, kurnaz eski Kraliçe Kleopatra Sezar'a küçük bir oyun oynar ve Ptolemy'i devredışı bırakır. Sezar çok etkilendiği Kleopatra'yı kendisine eş olarak alır ve onu Mısır'ın tek hakimi ilan eder. Beraberliklerinden Caesarion adını verdikleri bir de oğulları olur. Ama Sezar'ın Roma'ya geri dönmesi gerekmektedir. Beraberinde Kleopatra'yı da götürür. Yeni kraliçe için görkemli bir karşılama töreni düzenlenir. Fakat kısa süre sonra Sezar suikaste uğrayınca güzel kraliçe de ülkesi Mısır'a geri döner.

Tanrı bile bu gemiyi batıramaz sözleriyle suya indirilen ve daha ilk seferinde küçük bir buz dağına çarpıp batan ünlü Titanik gemisinin yaşadığı trajediye anlatan Titanik Faciası,. Walter Lord’ un eserinden uyarlanan ve Goldeen Globes’da En İyi Yabancı Film ödülünü alan film hakında bazı ilginç ayrınıtılar; Titanik faciasından kurtulanlar arasında filmin yapımcısı William Mac Quitty’de vardı. Quitty faciadan kurtulduğunda altı yaşındaydı. Bazı söylentilere göre Titanik’in batma sahneleri, 1943 yılında çekilen ünlü Nazi propaganda filmi Titanicden alınmış. 35 feet boyundaki dev gemi maketinin 15 feet derinlikteki bir havuza nasıl sığdırıldığı hala bir sır.

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.

Sihirli güçleriyle bilinen Mısır prensesinin (Queen Tera) tabutu Londraya getirilir. Bu arada arkeolojik ekibin başındaki Profesör Julian Fuchs'un kızı Margaret garip kabuslar görmektedir. Genç kızın bedeninde prensesin ruhunun zuhur bulmasıyla korkunç olaylar olmaya başlar...

Gerçek olaylara dayanan bu biyografik epik filmde, 1929 yılında İtalya’da iktidarda olan Faşist diktatör Benito Mussolini’nin Büyük Roma İmparatorluğu’nu yeniden kurma planlarının bir parçası olarak Libya’yı sömürgeleştirmek üzere bu Kuzey Afrika ülkesine gönderdiği güçlü ordularının, Ömer Muhtar liderliğindeki Libya halkının inatçı direnişi karşısında hiç ummadıkları ağır kayıplara uğramaları anlatılmaktadır.

Bu ihtiraslı ve gerilim dolu hikayede Rob Roy 18. yüzyılın İskoç kahramanı Robert Roy McGregor'in (Liam Nelson- Schindler's List) hayatını anlatır. Nefes kesici güzelliğine karşın kabile hayatının acı gerçeklerine, Rob Roy ve karısı Mary (Jessica Lange-Cape Fear) kendi şereflerini korumak için vahşiliğe ve hainliğe karşı destansı bir savaş açarlar. 18. yüzyılın İskoçyası'nda geçen bu film doğa güzellikleriyle dolu sahneleriyle de sizi etkileyecek...

Londra Metrosu'nda kazı yapan işçiler bir çok insan kemiğine rastlarlar, bunun üzerine hemen polise haber verilir. Polis, konuyu araştırması için Profesör Bernard Quatermass ve Dr. Mathew Roney'e haber gönderir. Bilim adamları çalışmaya başladıktan bir müddet sonra metro inşaatında kazılar esnasında 5 milyon yıl önce dünyaya düşmüş bir ufo bulurlar. Bundan sonra konuya askerler el koyar ve ufodan kaynaklanan garip olaylar patlak vermeye başlar.

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...

Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.

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 group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.

A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into a village on the British coast for repairs. The village is small and isolated and the Spanish convince the villagers that the English fleet has been defeated and that they, the Spanish, are now their masters. This results in the villagers' sullen cooperation, but rumors and unrest begin to spread and soon the Spanish pirates find themselves facing a revolt.

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

The film depicts an account of Allied Combined Operations Headquarters commandos executing a daring raid on the German-occupied French coast during the Second World War. The story is based on the commando raid on the French port of St. Nazaire.

Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.

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).

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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.

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.

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

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 adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel 4. Initially broadcast from 12 August to 4 November 1994, the series is narrated by English actor and frequent Hammer collaborator Oliver Reed.

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 life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.

Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

A ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel of the same name, which follows the careers and personal lives of a quartet of fictional Parliament members from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister.

The First Lady is a British television drama produced for BBC One, starring Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby, set around the fictional Lancashire borough of Furness. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First Lady was a down-to-earth series exploring the inner workings of local government.