Lawrence d'Arabie
Dec 11, 1962Le destin hors du commun de l’officier britannique T. E. Lawrence, qui mena la révolte arabe contre l’oppresseur turc au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale.
Adventure
Zia Mohyeddin
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La Mort au bout du canon
Jul 23, 1994Peu avant la guerre du Golfe, lorsque l'Irak et les Etats-Unis étaient encore alliés, Gérald Bull, un génie en balistique, conçoit une arme meurtrière pour Saddam Hussein. Grâce à des fonds secrets de la C.I.A, Bull commence à réaliser son projet... une arme capable de faire pleuvoir des tonnes de feu et d'acier sur les pays voisins.
History
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Jan 01, 1967Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
Drama
Plus féroces que les mâles
Feb 12, 1967L’agent des services spéciaux britanniques Bulldog Drummond reçoit pour mission d’arrêter un génie criminel qui utilise de jolies filles pour perpétrer ses meurtres...
Action
Ils sont venus d'au-delà de l'espace
May 01, 1967Les scientifiques qui enquêtent sur une pluie inhabituelle de météorites dans un champ rural sont possédés par une force extraterrestre attachée à un but ultérieur.
Science Fiction
Khartoum
Jun 09, 1966L'histoire a lieu en 1885, à la suite du massacre d'un régiment britannique dans le désert du Soudan par l'armée d'un résistant religieux, le Mahdi (signifiant en français, l'Attendu) qui lance une insurrection islamiste au Soudan contre l'occupant égyptien et son allié britannique. Le Premier Ministre britannique envoie le général Charles George Gordon, surnommé Gordon Pasha, à Khartoum pour assurer la protection des ressortissants britanniques encore présents.
History
Shalom Salaam
Apr 26, 1989Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.
Bombay Talkie
Nov 18, 1970An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.
Drama
Partition
Aug 19, 1987The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
Drama
A Passage to India
Nov 16, 1965The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.
Ashanti
Feb 21, 1979David et Anansa Linderby se trouvent en Afrique dans le cadre d'une mission de l'OMS. Ils visitent le village où se déroule la campagne de vaccination. Alors que David prend quelques photos, Anansa partie nager seule, est enlevée. Les rumeurs circulent qu'elle serait victime d'un trafic de femmes, un certain Suleiman chercherait à la vendre au prince Hassan. David se tourne alors vers les autorités, mais face à leur déni du phénomène d'esclavagisme, se résout à mener les recherches seul.
Adventure
King of the Ghetto
May 01, 1986An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end
Immaculate Conception
Sep 11, 1992Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at conceiving a child. Over time, the desire to have a child begins to consume Hannah and she persuades a reluctant Alistair to go with her for three days to a fertility shrine. After a ceremony during which Hannah converts to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same, she becomes pregnant. But Hannah’s joy at the discovery of her pregnancy is overshadowed by worsening relations with Alistair who has started an affair with their friend Samira and tensions begin to mount when eunuchs from the shrine start to harass the couple.
Drama
Et vint le jour de la vengeance
Aug 14, 1964Vingt ans après la fin de la guerre civile espagnole, Artiguez, un ancien partisan républicain exilé en France, revient au pays au péril de sa vie. On lui a appris que sa mère se meurt et il veut la revoir. Ce dont il ne se doute pas, c'est qu'il s'agit d'un piège tendu par le redoutable chef de la police espagnole, Viñolas
Drama
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Sep 15, 1968Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Comedy
The Assam Garden
Jun 04, 1985An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
Drama
Ghazi Shaheed
Sep 06, 1996The film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.
Sammy Going South
Mar 18, 1963Après être devenu orphelin à la suite d'un raid aérien sur Port-Saïd pendant la crise de Suez, un jeune garçon tente de se rendre seul du canal de Suez à Durban en Afrique du Sud, où vit sa plus proche parente, tante Jane. En chemin, il rencontre diverses personnes qui facilitent ou entravent son voyage, notamment un trafiquant de diamants vieillissant.
Adventure
Last Remarks
Jan 01, 2012As the sun sets on the British Empire, the British rulers of the Indian subcontinent prepare to divide the region into two independent states: India and Pakistan. For the diverse native population, freedom comes at a cost and ethnic violence sweeps the region. On the eve of Pakistani independence in 1947, Arastu Jan, a troubled and isolated native servant to a British master, takes a dose of poison and finds himself with ten minutes to record the confession of his brief lifetime.
Some Lover to Some Beloved
Jan 01, 1970Inspired by John Gielgud, veteran Pakistani actor Zia Mohyeddin ('Lawrence of Arabia', 'A Passage to India') recites readings from now fading Urdu literature every year. In 2010, he makes a deviation from his thirty-year tradition and reads solely from the work of one author - legendary revolutionary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. As contemporary Pakistan devolves into violence and instability, Zia's readings of Faiz's poetry find new resonance and leads Zia on an introspective journey into his extraordinary past and uncertain future.
Documentary
The Day of the Fox
Sep 06, 1961"In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation. The political themes explored remain incredibly prescient." - BFI
Nice
Oct 19, 1984A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.
Drama
Bergerac
Mar 09, 1991Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
Drama
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
Les Champions
Apr 30, 1969Les Champions (The Champions) est une série télévisée britannique en 30 épisodes de 50 minutes, créée par Monty Berman et Dennis Spooner et diffusée entre le 25 septembre 1968 et le 30 avril 1969 sur le réseau ITV. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 17 juillet 1971 sur la deuxième chaîne de l'ORTF et rediffusée en 1993 sur M6.
Craig, Richard et Sharon, trois agents secrets appartenant à une organisation appelée Nemesis, s'écrasent en avion dans l'Himalaya lors d'une mission. Recueillis par des moines tibétains, qui sont en réalité des êtres issus d'une civilisation très avancée, les trois héros se retrouvent dotés de pouvoirs surhumains qu'ils vont mettre au service du renseignement britannique et, ainsi, affronter des ennemis hors du commun.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Expert
Nov 26, 1976The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976.
The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases.
The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
Drama
L'Homme à la valise
Apr 17, 1968Richard Bradford est McGill, un ancien agent de la CIA qui est "désavoué" après avoir été nommé bouc émissaire d'une mission ratée. Il voyage en Europe et travaille comme enquêteur pour compte d'autrui. McGill entre souvent en conflit avec les personnes qui l'engagent en raison de son sens de l'honneur et de son intégrité sans compromis.
Action & Adventure
BBC Play of the Month
Sep 12, 1983Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
Drama
The Hidden Truth
Oct 15, 1964
Sir Francis Drake, Le corsaire de la reine
May 20, 1962Au XVIème siècle, le corsaire Francis Drake est envoyé sur les mers par la Reine Elizabeth 1ère pour chasser les galions et navires espagnols.
Action & Adventure
Minder
Mar 10, 1994This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Comedy
BBC Play of the Month
Sep 12, 1983Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
Drama
