Samuel West Movies

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home...

Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks...

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006.

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe...

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.

Documentary from the UK's Channel 4 investigating the death of INXS lead vocalist Michael Hutchence, which exclusively revealed information presented...

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to...

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which...

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has...

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from...

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of the events that followed. 1945: Germany is beaten...

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi...

Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to...

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is...

Season 1 Christmas Special - James still has feelings for Helen and is struggling to cope as she prepares to get married to Hugh. On Christmas Eve...

Season 6 Christmas Special - Christmas 1945 marks the first peaceful holiday since the war. James must handle the Darrowby Nativity play while Helen...

Season 5 Christmas Special - Skeldale House prepares for Christmas and Jimmy's first birthday, but everyone is rocked by news that Edward's ship has...

Season 4 Christmas Special - Faced with a daunting future, James longs to see Helen, but an injured bird stands in his way. Siegfried and Carmody try...