BBC MOVIES, a list by Autistically.Driven

8.3

/63185/

80

/2015/

78

/1113/

4.3

/134341/

100

/28/

92

/730/

age 7+

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

85

7.9

/7981/

76

/256/

76

/180/

4.1

/10073/

93

/14/

89

/111/

4.0

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.

85

7.9

/26820/

77

/1271/

76

/376/

4.2

/65273/

100

/15/

92

/391/

92

/5/

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

85

8.1

/47546/

78

/1663/

75

/896/

4.2

/79673/

100

/21/

92

/481/

age 7+

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

85

7.7

/60785/

76

/1818/

73

/930/

3.9

/44894/

100

/159/

87

/3528/

89

/31/

4.0

age 13+

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

84

8.2

/2731/

81

/75/

77

/53/

4.0

/1878/

98

/45/

92

/123/

81

/23/

3.5

Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and proved to be a tough, quixotic opponent to the power structure that wanted to depose him. When he was forcibly removed from office on 11 April 2002, two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace.

84

8.2

/7854/

81

/613/

77

/208/

4.0

/9677/

96

/23/

92

/52/

Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

83

7.7

/59061/

75

/1237/

73

/1009/

4.0

/63140/

94

/146/

90

/2478/

91

/35/

3.5

age 12+

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

85

82

8.1

/4846/

80

/630/

78

/62/

4.0

/3225/

100

/27/

94

/26/

87

/7/

age 9+

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

81

7.7

/473/

75

/31/

75

/2/

3.7

/808/

91

/35/

78

/2/

93

/4/

3.5

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they interpret principles of democracy in discourse and in practice?

81

7.5

/81787/

73

/1853/

71

/1024/

3.9

/62971/

91

/76/

81

/1233/

81

/28/

4.0

age 16+

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.

81

7.9

/3346/

75

/156/

68

/49/

4.0

/6415/

100

/74/

75

/10/

86

/17/

3.5

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.

81

7.4

/793/

77

/44/

71

/18/

3.5

/543/

96

/50/

83

/14/

80

/19/

4.0

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

81

7.9

/5471/

79

/216/

75

/75/

3.9

/3254/

94

/65/

85

/143/

77

/24/

3.5

age 16+

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?

80

7.8

/6659/

74

/120/

73

/77/

3.8

/3420/

97

/32/

92

/169/

82

/20/

3.0

The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.

79

7.3

/10781/

76

/1348/

73

/147/

3.8

/80483/

100

/12/

81

/46/

Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.

79

7.3

/1827/

73

/63/

73

/31/

3.7

/4964/

100

/52/

80

/10/

84

/13/

3.0

age 11+

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

79

7.4

/3353/

77

/167/

68

/57/

3.7

/4334/

98

/89/

76

/31/

85

/19/

3.5

age 13+

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

80

79

7.6

/7760/

76

/450/

74

/139/

3.7

/3364/

94

/16/

86

/54/

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

78

7.4

/385/

81

/15/

68

/13/

3.6

/326/

100

/23/

69

/3/

88

/8/

3.0

An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe's dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option.

78

7.5

/5204/

75

/117/

69

/75/

3.9

/5489/

90

/20/

86

/148/

83

/12/

3.0

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

78

7.3

/8328/

72

/551/

69

/169/

3.8

/45613/

100

/8/

78

/47/

For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.

79

78

7.8

/4438/

74

/416/

68

/84/

3.8

/2679/

100

The aim: to select the ideal mode of transport for each leg of a pilgrimage from Venice, Italy to Pau in France – home to a legendary street circuit and the origins of Grand Prix racing. On the way we prepare by taking to the track at Monza – the home of Italian Formula One. We try to get noticed on the road course in Monaco in a Bugatti, a Lamborghini and a Model T Ford. After cruising the canals in Venice we take to the tarmac and things look good - thanks to the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and Mercedes SLS Black. Throw in a Pagani Huayra, Porsche Cayman S and a GT3 as well as the Aston Martin Vanquish centenary edition, Bentley V8 convertible, Rolls Royce Phantom coupe and the face-bending BAC Mono all seems pretty perfect to us.

78

7.9

/14928/

78

/696/

76

/359/

3.9

/6936/

87

/94/

82

/2428/

72

/26/

3.0

age 6+

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.

77

7.1

/14026/

71

/615/

69

/213/

3.6

/14478/

95

/118/

73

/476/

80

/34/

3.5

age 13+

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor.

77

7.6

/8743/

74

/289/

69

/127/

3.7

/6234/

85

/98/

83

/813/

73

/28/

3.5

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

77

7.2

/68679/

70

/1022/

68

/635/

3.6

/33008/

81

/123/

83

/1552/

74

/36/

4.0

age 16+

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

76

7.8

/21982/

77

/1440/

82

/684/

3.7

/85692/

75

/8/

76

/58/

75

/5/

age 5+

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

76

6.9

/1469/

72

/54/

70

/31/

3.6

/3495/

89

/37/

57

/3/

85

/9/

4.0

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.

76

7.5

/2956/

73

/125/

68

/42/

3.6

/3677/

83

/69/

75

/15/

76

/23/

3.5

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

76

7.2

/695/

69

/40/

73

/15/

3.5

/339/

100

/19/

76

/11/

3.0

For her latest industrial exposé, Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis) gained unprecedented access to Africa's oil companies. The result is a gripping account of the costly personal tolls levied when American corporate interests pursue oil in places like Ghana and the Niger River Delta. Executive produced by Steven Shainberg and Brad Pitt, Big Men investigates the caustic blend of ambition, corruption and greed that threatens to exacerbate Africa’s resource curse.

76

7.2

/16311/

71

/281/

67

/182/

3.5

/4511/

92

/51/

79

/354/

71

/22/

3.5

age 11+

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.

77

76

7.6

/15973/

76

/427/

73

/216/

3.8

/22293/

85

/88/

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

86

75

8.2

/5620/

81

/650/

79

/118/

3.9

/4595/

100

/11/

96

/11/

age 8+

Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop.

75

7.3

/4522/

66

/46/

62

/53/

3.6

/1419/

89

/62/

88

/118/

75

/25/

3.0

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.

75

7.6

/2129/

69

/52/

69

/28/

3.5

/764/

95

/57/

78

/58/

72

/23/

3.0

This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter.

75

7.4

/28951/

73

/824/

71

/364/

3.6

/14324/

84

/115/

81

/2249/

75

/33/

3.0

age 17+

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

74

7.2

/5323/

67

/132/

62

/76/

3.5

/2939/

85

/48/

78

/327/

78

/16/

3.5

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

74

7.2

/8039/

68

/137/

68

/76/

3.5

/3228/

82

/39/

81

/365/

82

/16/

3.0

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

78

74

7.3

/7330/

72

/211/

72

/174/

3.7

/14459/

100

/5/

82

/79/

On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.

74

7.0

/24071/

67

/634/

66

/307/

3.7

/25610/

89

/106/

70

/647/

82

/33/

3.0

age 15+

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

73

6.6

/826/

66

/47/

61

/42/

3.5

/788/

91

/34/

74

/7/

73

/12/

3.5

This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.

73

7.0

/2250/

73

/134/

70

/70/

3.8

/2709/

95

/40/

70

/15/

75

/12/

2.5

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

80

73

7.7

/4355/

80

/238/

74

/122/

3.9

/8440/

97

/34/

88

/26/

72

/10/

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

72

6.7

/1194/

69

/35/

70

/43/

3.4

/2255/

93

/46/

76

/4/

75

/7/

2.5

A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius, both of his life and of his monumental work: through his own eyes, drawn by his own hand, painted with his own brush.

77

72

8.2

/6149/

77

/277/

71

/112/

3.9

/5998/

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.

72

7.1

/8137/

66

/150/

67

/82/

3.4

/2005/

92

/37/

68

/213/

3.0

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.

72

6.9

/20779/

70

/389/

65

/221/

3.4

/11479/

78

/32/

78

/560/

74

/26/