BBC Arts Popular Movie

This groundbreaking documentary unlocks the hidden psychology of J.M.W. Turner through his 37,000 private sketches, drawings, and watercolours...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Timothy Spall

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

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Cast: Michael Gambon

Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Geraldine Somerville

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noël Coward

Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating world of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Yentob

Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable to wash properly, is a brilliant writer, husband and father of two, once the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toby Stephens

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Gatiss

Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

Genre: History

Cast: Stephen Smith

The Ruins Of Empires is an innovative performance piece by Hip Hop Artist and writer Akala. It is an abridged version of his epic poem of the same...

Genre: History

Cast: Akala

In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jackie Collins

Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic Cabaret. Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liza Minnelli

Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Andrey Berezin

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Gatiss

The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Sheen

While touring to promote her second studio album "Sucker", Charli XCX tackles what feminism ('the f-word') really means to women in the music...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charli xcx

A mother finds photos of the life her son would have lived if he didn't pass away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tracy Ifeachor

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martha Kearney

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us –...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Amy E Watson

Documentary, performance, social commentary, and, of course, fashion. Ffasiwn, the film explores all of these forms but belongs to none. Clementine...

Genre: Documentary

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An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ali Mylon