Robin Sebastian

1953. Londres panse encore ses plaies après la seconde guerre mondiale. Mr. Williams, fonctionnaire chevronné, est un rouage impuissant dans le système administratif de la ville qui doit se reconstruire. Il mène une vie morne et sans intérêt, mais tout change lorsqu’on lui diagnostique une maladie grave qui l’oblige à faire le point sur son existence. Rejetant son quotidien banal et routinier, Mr. Williams va alors se dépasser et enfin vivre pleinement sa vie.

In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.

This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.

Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes et de son acolyte de toujours, le docteur Watson, sont transposées au XXIème siècle...

Terry Jones explores the history of the Crusades.

En 1986, dans l'Illinois, Cary Grant, venu à la rencontre de son public, se remémore son enfance en Angleterre. En 1911, à Bristol, l'acteur, de son vrai nom Archie Leach, grandit entre les disputes de ses parents. La grande pauvreté dans laquelle vit sa famille, la mort de son frère John, l'internement de sa mère puis son placement chez sa grand-mère sont des épreuves qui forgent son caractère...