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Persuasion is a BBC Screen Two 1995 period drama film directed by Roger Michell and based on Jane Austen 's 1817 novel of the same name. In her theatrical film debut, Amanda Root stars as protagonist Anne Elliot, while Ciarán Hinds plays her romantic interest, Captain Frederick Wentworth. The film is set in early 19th-century England, eight ...
Network. BBC One. Release. 27 December. (2011-12-27) –. 29 December 2011. (2011-12-29) Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens ’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, [1] Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as ...
January 8. (1980-01-08) –. April 1, 1980. (1980-04-01) Hollywood (also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film) is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the ...
14 May 2006. (2006-05-14) Hannibal (also known as Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare) is a 2006 television film, presented as a dramatised documentary, made by the BBC. [1][2][3][4] It is narrated by Kenneth Cranham. The film is chiefly centred on the Italian campaign of Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War.
16 February 1994. (1994-02-16) Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot. Produced by the BBC on BBC2 in six episodes (seven episodes in the worldwide TV series), it is the second such adaptation for television of the novel. It was directed by Anthony Page from a screenplay by Andrew Davies ...
The Coronation (2018) Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen is a 2022 television documentary film of home movies shot by the British royal family. [1] The film aired on BBC One on 29 May 2022, in commemoration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The film was compiled from 400 reels of previously unseen footage, [2] that depict the Queen prior to her coronation.
12 December 1954. (1954-12-12) (see text) Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed ...
— Co-producer Graham Broadbent on the film's story In 2004, screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Douglas Rae and Robert Bernstein of Ecosse Films with the intention of creating a film about the life of Jane Austen, a popular nineteenth century English novelist. Williams had recently read Becoming Jane Austen, a 2003 biography that largely pieced together several known facts, such as Austen ...