Carl Davis Movies

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC...

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of...

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading...

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion...

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks...

In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is...

Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been...

L. S. Lowry, one of the most celebrated English painters from the mid 20th century, liked to call himself just a "simple man". But was he?

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in...

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster...