A beautiful, witty depiction of a fantastic female poet. Terence Davies gives Dickinson the treatment she deserves, exploring how her personal life and character burst onto the page in the form of beautiful, lyric poetry. Wonderfully portrayed by Cynthia Nixon with a stellar supporting cast, it's a pure joy to watch. find out more...

William Thatcher is a poor peasant squire, but he finds he has an aptitude for the world of jousting and having successfully passed himself off as a knight he sets about taking the world of the medieval privileged by storm. A Knight's Tale is a completely irreverent take on the swashbuckler movies of old and history in general, but it's a highly entertaining adventure comedy, with a good heart and an endearingly executed lack of originality, while a down on his luck Chaucer is constantly in dang find out more...

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her? BBC doing the full text. As only they can do. Apparently. find out more...

Shakespeare's delightful romantic comedy is given the usual high class treatment by the BBC. find out more...

Set in 19th Century Japan, but shot here with a largely Brit cast, Kenneth Branagh's much criticised adaptation of The Bard's comedy of errors. 'All the world's a stage...' find out more...

Martin Lawrence gets transported back to the 14th Century where he helps the good guys defeat an evil knight and bring peace to the land. It's a comedy, but he gets to come back to our time.....now what's funny about that? Loosely based on Mark Twain's 'A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'. find out more...

Woody Allen has fun with his affection for long Russian novels, the films of Ingmar Bergman and metaphysical abstraction. One of his funniest! find out more...

Another faithful and compelling adaptation from the very watchable BBC collection. find out more...

War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, an unfairly dismissed governess, in desperation filches a client's card from her agency and reinvents herself as a social secretary. This sheltered lady finds herself in an unaccustomed world of champagne, parties and sex and her new boss, Delysia, juggling three different men, a young West End producer, a nightclub owner and a piano-playing ex-con, and Miss Pettigrew herself is at ease with fashion impresario Joe. If she can sort out both their love lives find out more...

Laura Henderson has just lost her husband, but while others might grieve she decides to refocus her considerable energies and on an apparent whim buys London's Windmill Theatre. A firm believer of demonstrative eccentricity, Mrs Henderson soon finds herself in trouble with the law when she decides to boost the theatre's faltering ticket sales by introducing nudity to the stage - a stroke of genius that is not without its pitfalls, particularly since her decision coincides with the arrival of WWI find out more...