Movies: Jeremy Irons

This is the glorious story of the Hittites - the most powerful people in the Near East of their time. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, "The Hittites" brings the fascinating history of this mighty empire to life with expert interviews, s...

Four years after the devastating Gorkha earthquake, the people of Nepal still live everyday with the problems the world left behind....

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An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)...

This mockumentary is narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons and tracks the “migration” of a plastic bag from a grocery store parking lot to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in the Pacific Ocean....

This is the story of a one-legged tin soldier who goes through many perilous adventures in the outside world to get back to his true love, the ballerina....

An investigation into the making of Adrian Lyne's 1997 film Lolita....

The documentary relates the decisive moments, the turning points and the rollercoaster ride of a brilliant, eventful international career and the extraordinary life of a great Italian artist. From his origins as an illegitimate child with no name to ...

The legacy of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution....

Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system. The film highlights the...

Kha, architect and builder of tombs for the pharaohs, must undertake the journey to the Underworld. Telling us the story of his voyage is Jeremy Irons, in the guise of a narrator. His words take us inside the secret world of Egyptian mythology, relig...

The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him....

An ex-soldier attempts to clear his name while being relentlessly tracked down for the murder and rape of a well-to-do woman....

A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting....

Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local woman, Tara, as a housekeeper, whom he has met three times yet forgotten all about. While he remembers nothing of their previous meetings, she remember...

A look at the work of Slí Eile — a live-in centre for sufferers of mental illnesses in Cork, Ireland—and the dedication of founder Joan Hamilton to establishing a support community in the wake of her own daughter's mental health issues....

The film reveals the story of conflict between lions and hyenas, relatively unknown or even suspected in the scientific world before this. The intense relationship and enduring rivalry between the two species play out in a battle of survival....

The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918....

National Geographic filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert set out to create a film on leopards but never imagined they would be seduced by a small, eight-day-old cub named Legadema. Eye of the Leopard follows Legadema’s journey from a playful cub to ...

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past....