Alan Bennett Movies
- 1996
In Love and War
In Love and War61996HD
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful ol...
- 2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?4.82004HD
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performer...
- 1964
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe71964HD
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortune Theatre, May 1961) and Broadway (Octo...
- 1976
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Pleasure at Her Majesty's6.51976HD
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at He...
- 1982
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball61982HD
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese,...
- 1995
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook01995HD
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. “marvelous, engrossing tribute” Allison Pearson, The Observ...
- 1996
The Willows in Winter
The Willows in Winter71996HD
Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully an...
- 1995
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows7.11995HD
Kenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted readers for nearly a century. Now, this enduring belove...
- 2022
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War02022HD
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942....
- 1991
Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler71991HD
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop...
- 2022
Stewart Lee: Tornado
Stewart Lee: Tornado7.12022HD
The Bafta-winning Stewart Lee performs his latest touring show, focusing on a bizarrely erroneous description of his work on Netflix and a mind-boggli...
- 2011
Books: The Last Chapter?
Books: The Last Chapter?02011HD
Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books and their readers? Alan Yentob discusses the subj...
- 1982
Intensive Care
Intensive Care01982HD
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sur...
- 1979
Afternoon Off
Afternoon Off01979HD
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in...
- 1988
Talking Heads
Talking Heads51988HD
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopefu...
- 1994
The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George6.7641994HD
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...
- 2013
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time62013HD
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream, Sno...
- 1987
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit6.51987HD
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...
- 1966
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland7.31966HD
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th...
- 2003
The Young Visiters
The Young Visiters5.12003HD
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadverten...