David M. Thompson Movies

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly...

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's...

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from...

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...

Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

An undertaker forms an awkward bond with the daughter of a man he has to bury.

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action,...

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid...

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are...

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin is hurtling through space. Down below, 7-year-old Billy Wilson keeps watching the skies, itching for an encounter...

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the development of the theme of the dispersion of light by...

Five black men in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What...