The seemingly happy marriage of Tony and Brenda, a rich and socially-connected country couple, is shattered by the arrival of penniless bounder John and the death of their beloved only son. A tale with a sinister twist in its tail. find out more...

A beautifully made costume drama set in rural Yorkshire 1920. Two returning servicemen, each in their own way shattered by their experiences, try to rebuild their lives. Intelligent, charming and a pleasure to see. find out more...

First three episodes of the famous TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic book. The year is 1939 and Captain Charles Ryder is billeted in Brideshead Castle, an event that takes him back to his days as an Oxford undergraduate and his friendship with the wild, eccentric Lord Sebastian Flyte.... find out more...

Episodes 4 to 7; Sebastian Against The World, A Blow Upon, A Bruise, Julia and The Unseen Hook. More of Evelyn Waugh's tale of upper-class manners with Seb's drinking problem predominating. find out more...

The final episodes (the episodes on our VHS tapes are numbered from 1-15 but contain exacltly the same material) 8 to 11; Brideshead Deserted, Orphans Of The Storm, A Twitch Upon The Thread, Brideshead Revisited. The years pass Charles becomes an artist and loses contact for 10 yrs. Following a change meeting, Charles and Julia start a long suppressed affair, but she won't marry him. Lady Marchmain is dying and asks Charles, who is painting in Paris, to help find Seb. Rex and Julia are having pr find out more...

David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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Schoolteacher John Scopes is placed under close arrest for advocating Darwin's theory of evolution to his pupils in violation of a stifling Tennessee law banning anything that 'denies the divine creation of man as taught by the Bible'. The case is taken up by a cynical newspaper-man who takes an interest when the champion of the Fundamentalists and three-time presidential candidate is named prosecutor. A fascinating and absorbing dramatisation of the famous 1925 'Monkey Trial'. find out more...

Trapped in a passionless marriage to an invalid husband, in whose country estate she is isolated, the aristocratic young Constance finds unlikely solace in the taciturn form of gamekeeper Parkin and, despite their diametrically opposed backgrounds, they unlock in each other a profound and previously undiscovered desire. 'Lady Chatterley' may be about sex, but it should not be confused with previous adaptations which have abused the soft core template of the novel. This is a beautifully shot evoc find out more...

Beautiful, but spoiled, Fanny has married Jewish stockbroker Job to save crooked brother Trippy's arse and for his money, but she soon denies Job access to the marital bed. Trippy disappears to get himself killed in WW1 and Fanny eventually divorces Job, who also goes to Europe, with their daughter.
Years later; the daughter has returned to the USA but Job has been whisked off to a concentration camp, where he goes blind. Fanny catches diphtheria and loses her beauty while her daughter find out more...

Competent period drama based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. Taking place one day in 1923 with MP's wife Mrs Dalloway taking a trip down memory lane as she prepares for a posh dinner do. Her middle-aged reflection takes her back to the summer of 1890, her old flame Peter Walsh, and a series of events that were to shape the rest of her life. Simultaneously we hear about the struggles of a troubled young war veteran. Redgrave is excellent as the soul-searching society lady working through regret a find out more...