Carl Davis Movies

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

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...

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is...

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

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

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

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink...