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A journey through some of the National Trust’s huge collection of gardens. Presented by Alan Titchmarsh, the featured gardens include: Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire; Rowal Lane, County Down; Blickling Hall, Norfolk; Powis Castle, Wales; Hinton Ampner Garden, Hampshire and Stourhead in Wiltshire.

Alan Titchmarsh visits eight of England’s lesser-known gardens. The small gardens on display include: Hestercombe House in Gloucestershire; Brook Cottage in Oxfordshire; Cobblers on the Kent/Sussex border; the Kensington Roof Garden; Calke Abbey’s kitchen gardens; and the Salcombe estuary estate.

Alan Titchmarsh takes the viewer on a tour of ten historic English houses: Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire; Chatsworth in Derbyshire; Harewood House in Yorkshire; Castle Howard; the Beaulieu Estate in Hampshire; Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire; Warwick Castle; Wilton House; Leeds Castle in Kent; and Longleat in Wiltshire.

This programme features the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ness Gardens, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Wisley RHS Gardens, Chelsea Physic Gardens, Kew Gardens, Westonbirt Arboretum and Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Alan Titchmarsh visits another six of the country’s loveliest gardens: Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire; Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire; Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire; Knightshayes in Devon; Mount Stewart in County Down; and Studley Royal in Yorkshire.

Alan Titchmarsh visits six of England’s most beautiful gardens, including Killerton in Devon, Barrington Court in Somerset, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, Dunham Massey in Cheshire, Cragside in Northumberland, and Sheffield Park in Sussex.

Follow the fascinating story of the Land Rover’s development.

This documentary is a true celebration of the Mini, the most popular British car ever built and a classic icon.

The MG car company was founded in the 1920s by Cecil Kimber. The MG name was in production for over 50 years, creating some of the most iconic and much-loved sports cars in motoring history.

This special interest documentary features meetings with owners of Classic BSAs across the UK. BSA was probably one of the best known British motorcycle manufacturers in the world, turning out more different models than any other company.

A series celebrating the hobbies and leisure pursuits of the British during the last century. This episode looks at Britons getting away from it all.

A series celebrating the hobbies and leisure pursuits of the British during the last century. This episode looks at Britons enjoying their planes, trains and automobiles.

A series celebrating the hobbies and leisure pursuits of the British during the last century. This episode looks at Britons’ fun and games.

In this episode, we see a collection of biographies of several revered sports: Stanley Matthews, Amelia Earhart, Bobby Jones, Juan Fangio, Donald Campbell, Charles Lindbergh.

In this episode, we see a collection of biographies of several revered actresses: Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor.

In this episode, we see a collection of biographies of several revered cultural icons: Dalí, Fontaine & Nureyev, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, Edward & Mrs Simpson, Yuri Gagarin, and Mary Quant.

In this episode, we see a collection of biographies of several leaders: Emmeline Pankhurst, Ronald Reagan, Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Fidel Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev.

In this episode, we see a collection of biographies of several revered actors and musicians: Chaplin, Elvis, Laurence Olivier, Louis Armstrong, Laurel and Hardy, Maurice Chevalier, John Lennon, Richard Burton, and Bob Hope.

This lovely film shows us the wonders of Northern Ireland in the 1960s, featuring great scenic shots and local characters.

Fabulous documentary made to educate American businessmen on the peculiar ways, customs, etiquette and traditions of the British as they were in 1974.

Filmed Lady Gregory play. Incredibly funny story about two grumpy men who live in an Irish workhouse.

This feature-length documentary, newly divided into two parts, is a unique collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and British Pathé, made up entirely of newsreel footage about the Caribbean filmed during the period 1922-1970.

This feature-length documentary, newly divided into two parts, is a unique collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and British Pathé, made up entirely of newsreel footage about the Caribbean filmed during the period 1922-1970.

Police lieutenant Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is ordered to stop investigating gangster boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because of lack of results. Unwilling to let it go, Diamond changes strategy in his hunt for evidence by going after Brown’s girlfriend, Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace).

Young heiress Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) just wanted to run off with her friend Sam (Van Heflin) but ended up involved in a murder. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha, who is now a powerful figure married to Walter (Kirk Douglas), an alcoholic district attorney. Eventually, Sam is drawn into a web of plotting.

By the late 1930s, Pathé had refined its way of filming performers by mixing in evocative filmed locations such as London, Port Talbot, Ireland, Scotland and even the Queen Mary. Pathé also filmed real workers who became professional singers and miners who trained to be a team of high-wire walkers! Sit back and enjoy this time capsule celebration of a long-lost classic era of British variety!

The East Side kids bump into a mysterious man named Nardo (Bela Lugosi). Full of imagination, the children believe Nardo is the “monster killer” they have heard about. They set out to try to capture Nardo before he can kill anyone else.

Based on the true story of Agnes Newton Keith (Claudette Colbert) who endured several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of World War II. Separated from her husband and caring for her young son, she has to face many challenges.

Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford), a prostitute, lives it up with American soldiers stationed on the island of Tutuila. Soon, Sgt. Tim O’Hara (William Gargan) falls in love with her. But missionary Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston) will try to convert her wild ways.

An aggressive businessman, Dan Armstrong (Edward G. Robinson), goes to England to learn more diplomatic sales techniques. However, while in the UK, he gets involved in the exploitation of Rhodesian mines while competing with Manningdale (Ralph Richardson) for the heart of Lady Patricia (Luli Deste).

Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon is where we meet several colourful characters who come to his bar, some looking for work, for love, for business or just a place to while away the hours.

A former G.I. is framed for the robbery of an armoured car. During his detention, he is beaten up and tortured by police. When he is finally released due to lack of evidence, he embarks on a journey to Mexico in order to discover who set him up and what their motivations were.

Meg has been raised by Pete and Ellen ever since she was abandoned by her birth parents. One day, Meg and her friend Nath get close to a lonely cabin in the woods which Pete warns them is a place of terrible danger. As Meg and Nath start falling for each other, they find themselves drawn to the dangers hidden in that red house.

Jimmy admires his boss Matt Kelly. When he refuses to implicate Kelly in a bootlegger case, Jimmy ends up in a brutal reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart disease, and manages to escape to tell the world about the horrible conditions of the school.

Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow (Edmond O’Brien) travels to San Francisco before settling down with his fiancée Paula (Pamela Britton). After a night out, he wakes up to learn that he has been given a toxin which has no antidote. With one week left to live, he aims to find out who poisoned him and why.

Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) betrays his partner in crime Rio (Marlon Brando), taking their loot and leaving him to be captured. Years later, Rio, seeking revenge, escapes from prison and goes after Dad, who is now a respectable sheriff.

Before discovering her husband has been murdered in Paris, Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the charming Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). Regina and Peter will have to give chase to three men who are after the money they all stole during World War II. But is Peter the man he claims to be?

Jimmy (James Stewart) is the owner of a failed music shop who works with his uncle. He becomes close to a family of Irish music lovers who happen to be his uncle’s worst enemies and finds himself helping their band get gigs while trying to reconcile the two parties. Meanwhile, Jimmy falls for the beautiful Molly (Paulette Goddard).

George Fowler (Steve McQueen) joins a gang planning to rob a bank in St. Louis, hoping to use the money to help pay for his college tuition. But the gang’s leader John Egan (Crahan Denton) does not trust him and the robbery does not go as planned.

Former Nazi Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) lives undercover in Connecticut, working as a teacher and married to the headmaster’s daughter (Loretta Young). But when one of his old German associates arrives in town, bringing a federal investigator (Edward G. Robinson) with him, Kindler will have to take desperate measures to keep his secret.

A young actress arrives in Hollywood to become a star. After many disappointments, she meets an older, alcoholic actor who takes her under his wing and they fall in love. She will have to choose between pursuing her dream and looking after him.

After getting out of prison, recovering drug addict Frankie Machine decides to straighten up, trying to get work as a drummer. However, when his former employer Schwiefka and Frankie’s old drug dealer, Louis, re-enter his life, Frankie struggles to stay clean and finds himself straying back into old habits.

George Washington McLintock, “G.W.” to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He is surprised by the arrival of his estranged wife Katherine who has returned to take their daughter away with her. Balancing his wife, his headstrong daughter, and some crooks, G.W. tries to do what is best.

“The Great Gabbo” is an egocentric ventriloquist who treats his assistant Mary with brutality. Tired of being mistreated, she quits. However, two years later, she ends up performing as a dancer in a stage show that features him.

When his boss demands that he return to work, ambitious lawyer John Mason (James Stewart) is forced to leave a honeymoon with new wife Jane (Carole Lombard). Regardless, his boss gives the partnership he has been angling for to someone else. To make matters worse, tragedy then strikes their new family.

In 1820s Maine, beautiful Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) knows she can always get her own way with the men around her. She marries an old local businessman who grants her an important position, but she continues to play around with men, including her husband’s son and the foreman of his company.

Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) abandons his artistic aspirations when he meets Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), a waitress and a femme fatale. Although she abuses him, Philip becomes obsessed with her. When he finally seems ready to move on, Mildred reappears and does not let him escape.

Using hypnosis and telepathy, sinister music maestro Svengali (John Barrymore) is able to control women. When he meets the beautiful Trilby O’Farrell (Marian Marsh), she falls under his spell. However, her true love, Billee (Bramwell Fletcher), fights to win her back and uncover Svengali’s deception.

A reporter writes a column about “John Doe”, an unexciting man who plans to kill himself in protest against America’s neglect of the little people. The newspaper then hires Gary Cooper to pose as this fictional John Doe, who captures the public’s imagination in a series of radio addresses.

Ellen Benson is a widow and pacifist whose peace is disturbed by the unsuccessful courtship of the town’s sheriff, Todd Shaw. But everything changes when the U.S. president passes through town. Gangster John Baron (Frank Sinatra) picks the Benson home as an ideal spot from which to launch his attempt on the president’s life.

This sequel to “Father of the Bride” (1950) follows newly-married Kay Dunstan, who announces that she is going to have a baby. This leaves her dad in the position of having to accept he will very soon become a grandfather.

In 1948, the Allied powers bring the entire city of Berlin under their control. Against this backdrop, US Sergeant Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) cannot change his hatred for Germans, while Sergeant Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) pursues an attractive German war widow.

Four rogues are stranded in Italy awaiting the repair of their steamer when they meet an ordinary couple. The six of them head for Africa with the goal of gaining wealth through the buying of (supposedly) uranium-rich land. Other travellers join them with similar intentions.

Harry Street (Gregory Peck) is a writer dying from a hunting wound during an African safari. As he lies convalescent, he reflects on his failures at love and writing, telling of his writing ambitions and the story of his one true love, Cynthia (Ava Gardner), to his wife (Susan Hayward).

New York newspaper editor Walter Burns finds out that his ex-wife, reporter Hildy Johnson, is about to marry an insurance agent. He tries to entice her back into the newsroom by having her write about the story of convicted murderer Earl Williams. When Hildy discovers Williams might be innocent, her enthusiasm for the job reawakens.

Starving artist Christopher Cross falls in love with the beautiful Kitty March. However, Kitty is interested in Johnny, a crook. When they find out that art dealers are interested in Cross’ work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Blinded by love, Cross allows it at first, but even he has a limit.

While enjoying the success of his latest and most complex Broadway musical “Show Boat”, composer Jerome Kern recalls his own life and the events that led him to this moment. The story of a man who changed the face of American stage musicals forever.

In Algiers, the thief Pepe le Moko hides from police in the maze-like Casbah. He is soon a target not only for a policeman and an inspector, but also jealous thief Regis. Pepe meets the beautiful American Gaby and becomes obsessed with her. Regis’ plan to bring Pepe into the open fails, until Pepe realises that he may never see Gaby again.

What makes Agatha Christie such a successful writer? On the 75th anniversary of the creation of her immortal character Miss Marple, this documentary introduces viewers to new fields of scientific inquiry using sophisticated computer analyses of Christie’s every written word, her sentence structure, story arcs, poisons used, red herrings, clues and more.

A married American woman must choose whether to break off her affair with a young Italian and return home to her husband or to stay with her new flame.

Frederic (Gary Cooper), an American ambulance driver working for the Italian Army during World War I, falls in love with British Red Cross nurse Catherine (Helen Hayes). His jealous commanding officer, Major Rinaldi, transfers Catherine to a different hospital. But an injury on the battlefield takes Frederic to Catherine’s new hospital in Milan.

A 1953 motor racing adventure in which the Burton Family must win an Alpine car rally’s prize money in order to afford to keep the family petrol station – but a big garage profiteer seeks to sabotage their chances.

Documentary covering the 1955 Le Mans endurance race – the one with the terrible crash that influenced the future of motor racing.

The archetypal Marxist revolutionary, Che was also a physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. We go to Dublin to meet Jim Fitzpatrick who met Che and designed the classic commercially-renowned image of the famous Argentine.

Actress, model and singer Marilyn Monroe was the original blonde bombshell who found international success in motion pictures during the 1950s. In this episode, we meet the photographer Elliot Erwitt, who took the classic “Seven Year Itch” image, and Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson who worked with Marilyn on “The Misfits”.

Anne Frank is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, has been the basis of several plays and films, and is an inspiration to young people. In this episode, we meet Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s step-sister, and visit the Anne Frank museum.

Not only considered among the greatest heavyweights in boxing history but arguably the greatest sports personality of all time. We meet George Lois, the man behind the legendary Esquire cover, and Lawrence Lusting who photographed many of Ali’s fights.

For more than half a century, film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of British life, but it also captivated audiences with enthralling stories from overseas.

While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular “cinemagazines”, which entertained cinemagoers for decades.

For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world. Covering everything from major world events and exotic foreign locales to the pageantry of state occasions and gritty social issues, the company amassed a unique documentary record of 20th-century life.

The voice that was synonymous with Pathé, above all others, belonged to Bob Danvers-Walker. His son Michael and film historian Ian Christie recall the man who got Britain through the Blitz and beyond.

Musical and comic turns include The Beverley Sisters, Flanagan & Allen, Gracie Fields, Tommy Trinder, The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey, Laurel & Hardy, Bob Hope, Richard Hearne (Mr Pastry), Max Miller, Anna Neagle, Richard Murdoch, Wilfred Pickles, Vera Lynn and many, many more. The 1940s American film star and comedian, Danny Kaye, is seen here in rehearsal for his 1948 Royal Command Performance.

A nostalgic celebration of a rich diversity of variety entertainers. There are balancing acts, jugglers, dance bands, jazz bands, organists, strongmen, comedians, musicians, dancers – modern and ballet, roller-skaters, actors, singers and even a Bird Circus.

A programme full of performances by the morale-boosting variety acts and singers of the Second World War. Artists who helped frontline troops and home front civilians alike to keep smiling through the dark days of war. Including Flanagan & Allen, Gracie Fields, Robb Wilton, Sydney Burchall, Tommy Trinder, Peter Sinclair, Vera Lynn, Cyril Fletcher, Tommy Handley and Mantovani, among many more!

This programme includes performances by The Peters Sisters, Leslie Henson, The Hillbillies, Douglas Byng, Issy Bonn, Lorenzi, The Four Aces, Sydney Burchall, Mr Penny, Eric Woodburn, Billie Hale, Ronald Frankau and many, many more. Come 1939, war with Germany was looming, but, as the famous phrase goes, “The show must go on!” – and it did!

We hear from the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Mike Leigh and many others about the festival as it is today. Cannes is the most prestigious film festival where all the world’s greatest directors want to show their films.

The French New Wave directors, including François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, cause massive controversy and manage to get the event cancelled in 1968. Sophia Loren becomes the new queen of the festival and the Golden Boys of American cinema, including Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman, become regular winners of the Palme d’Or.

The festival is established as a response to Mussolini’s control of the Venice Film Festival. It becomes an inspiration to a generation still recovering from the impact of WWII by attracting the biggest stars of the time including Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and director Orson Welles. Its reputation spreads worldwide alongside that of its most famous regular visitor, Brigitte Bardot.

Famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathé in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were presented by much-loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour.

Famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathé in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were presented by much-loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour.

Famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathé in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were presented by much-loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour.

Famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathé in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were presented by much-loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour.