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- James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
- A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
- A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
- In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their backs
- British Home Secretary Stella Simmons drives home one night while engaging in an affair with the Prime Minister. A mysterious man remotely hijacks her self-driving car, forcing her on a rampage through London.
- When teenagers, Harry and June, run away from their repressive families to be together, they're derailed by an extraordinary discovery--June's ability to shape-shift. A scientist tries to capture her and discover the key to her power.
- Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
- A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
- An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
- How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr. Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super-gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U.S. cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies.
- When a strait-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a detective (Topol). The wife notices she is being followed, and maintaining their distance she and the detective explore London for 10 days in a game of follow-the-leader without ever exchanging a word.
- Ros Tyler wakes from a drugged sleep to find that her flatmate is dead and she herself has been viciously sexually assaulted. She has also suffered acute memory loss and has no recollection of events of the previous night. The DI leading the investigation finds himself falling for Ros and becomes convinced of the killer's identity, but his world is turned upside down when the CPS decide not to prosecute. After deciding to lie, Ros tells the court that she can identify her attacker. He protests his innocence but the decision goes against him. Soon she starts to receive anonymous letters from someone who knows that she has lied. Her relationship with Will changes and the pressures begin to show. She soon discovers that the truth can be more dangerous than a lie.
- A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.
- The National Gallery of London is one of the world's greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and on whom? The power of great art lies in its ability to communicate with anyone, no matter their art historical knowledge, their background, their beliefs. This film gives voice to those who work at the gallery - from cleaner to curator, security guard to director - who identify the one artwork that means the most to them and why. An assortment of people from all walks of life who have a strong connection to the gallery make surprising choices of both well-known and lesser-known artworks. Finally, some well-known celebrities explain what they head for when they visit the gallery. These stories are used as a lens through which to explore the 200-year history of the National Gallery and what the future may hold for this spectacular space.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- The life and work of Michelangelo, one of the most important artists of the Italian High Renaissance, are brought to life in this documentary through an exhibition in the National Gallery that also explore his relationship with da Vinci.
- Rebellious yet disciplined; traditional yet irreverent: the Carracci revolutionized painting and changed the course of art history. This film departs from the usual model both in subject and style: rather than asking viewers to absorb the art historical consensus on Italian painting, it invites them to discover something new; and it is full of unexpected treasures to entice the eye and provoke the mind. Marco Riccòmini, an art advisor of international fame, shares his knowledge in a search for the key to understanding and appreciating the lives, the works - and the magic - of the brothers Agostino and Annibale Carracci, and their cousin Ludovico Carracci, who were working together at the end of sixteenth century. Here for the first time the legend of the Carracci - well known to art historians but less familiar to the general public - is told on the screen.
- Waldemar Januszczak sets out to correct the misconceptions that have arisen about the art of Rubens.
- A cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery's exhibition Goya: The Portraits.
- A girl (Palmer) has a pigs heart flung at her chest by a mumbling old lady (Jackman) on the subway, she thinks she's been cursed. She slowly goes crazy and ends up killing someone. Was she really cursed or was she always crazy?
- A colorful travelogue of London's most historic buildings and the residual damage still left from WWII.
- Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.
- An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists' village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
- Silhouette Secrets is a one-hour TV documentary in which a modern-day silhouette artist takes a journey back in time to explore the history of his shadowy art, asking the question "Where did it come from?". On the way he meets the world's fastest silhouette artist, who challenges him to a duel of scissors! The journey takes him from a windswept seaside pier - on the north coast of Wales - to an Audi showroom in Houston, Texas, and finishes with an intriguing answer to his question.