Movies: Martin Jarvis

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain present an abridged version of Shakespeare's play, with explanatory links and introductions by Martin Jarvis. Following the presentation of the play, members of the company are shown in a workshop with acto...

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election....

A writer begins to discover that his femme fatale character has come to life in the real world....

When a couple lose their son in a factory accident, they use a magical monkey's paw to bring him back to life with horrific results......

The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life....

Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close t...

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers....

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickl...

An innocent game during an opulent weekend at a Scottish castle annoys the sinister housekeeper and causes several family skeletons to rattle in their cupboards....

A quarter of classic horror stories presented by actor Martin Jarvis....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe....

Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl....

Marking 40 years in show business, legendary comedian and entertainer Ken Dodd presents this comedy extravaganza, entertaining a host of celebrities including Frank Carson, Samantha Fox and Warren Mitchell....

One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs....

Look at life in an estate of tower blocks in Bristol where the city council have built over a hundred in recent years....

A visit to the Isle of Man to discover why it wants greater independence....

A look into the natural world of the butterfly and the reasons for the apparent shortage of them....

A look at the increasing mechanisation of hop picking....

The work of Britain's traffic wardens, through the eyes of one of them. Apart of "Look at Life" documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their ...

A look at the efforts being made to prevent Venice from sinking into the mud....