John Hurt Movies

This 54 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the...

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the...

An documentary recounting the story with interviews of cast, crew and production team and including producer Barry Navidi, who had worked for six...

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can...

A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

An elderly widower sets in motion series of events to veil his disappearance from a nursing home. After gathering necessities he heads to the local...

Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

The 500-year-old book UTOPIA takes us on a journey through the world of today. A quest that will reveal how Thomas More's vision lives on in...

This compelling drama/documentary details the events leading up to, and surrounding the resignation of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1976.

A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and...

The actor of John Merrick answers questions about the work on "The Elephant Man"

England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests...

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains...

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity...

Short film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.