Simon Callow Movies

In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII...

Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

The story of an honest Lincolnshire farmer, hit hard by the credit crunch, squeezed by a greedy supermarket and struggling to survive. All his...

A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her...

A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.

The story of Henry Purcell.

Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.

A dying woman recalls the happier days of her past.

Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...

Simon Callow's one-man show about Charles Dickens.

Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the...

Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up...

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")

Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.

A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.