Jonathan Miller's terrific all star cast adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel made as one of the sixties 'Wednesday Play' series. find out more...

All of Batman's greatest foes combine in a dastardly plot to wreck the noble United Nations. Will civilized life as we know it survive? Can Batman and Robin win through? Holy mackerel... I love it, it's glorious and unashamed tackiness will make it a SMASH HIT with anyone! find out more...

A revelation for television drama this early work, a 'Wednesday Play', by Ken Loach is everything we've come to expect from one of Britain's finest directors. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and, eventually, her child through the inflexibility of the welfare state, and is a searing attack on the said state and an incredibly humane observation of those at the sharp end. The DVD also has a commentary by Loach and extracts from the writer Jeremy Sandford's memoirs. T find out more...

Another striking DVD release from the BFI archives that gives a contemporary twist to a dramatic re-construction of the battle of Culloden in 1746; a conflict acknowledged by many for ending Clan unity within the Scottish Highlands. Filmed in black and white and made back in 1964 Culloden remains a striking depiction of a particularly brutal event in history. find out more...

Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius As I Knew Him', we follow the last five years of the composer, by now blind, paralysed, embittered and at war with the world, as Fenby helps him formulate into music the compositions he still has whirling around his mind. 'Delius - Song of Summer' is a powerful and moving story. find out more...

The first of the 7 "Doctor" films, full of med student jokes, innuendo but generally more sophisticated than the Carry On films with which they have much in common. In this, the best of them all, Sparrow begins his 5 years at medical school and is picked up by 3 students doing retakes. Very English. find out more...

Tom Baker (now the second best Doctor ever) in his fourth tale as the universal altruist Doctor Who. The Doctor re-visits the war-torn planet of Skaro on a mission from the Time Lords themselves. Their intention is to put a halt to mad scientist Davros' plan to mutate aliens into a breed of lethal silver composters (Daleks) with tracheotomies, a poor sense of humour and a rage issue with anywhere that doesn't provide wheelchair access; "Pity? I have no understanding of the word. It is not regist find out more...

The genesis of the original Doctor Who series serves as a necessary introduction. William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, you mean the police had their own phone boxes? Yep. And with him three companions, two bemused London schoolteachers and a teenage girl from somewhere in space and time. find out more...

William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, you mean the police had their own phone boxes? Yep. find out more...

William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, thwarting evil where ever it rears its slightly unwieldy latex head. find out more...