Known for
8.0Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.
Television
1985
6.8Intimate portrait of the daily life of the British Royal Family drawn from 18 months of filming within Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
Royal Family
1969
A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.
Shellarama
1965
10.0A journey through five continents and an impression of the impact of television on peoples of different civilisations.
Television and the World
1961
NRCasting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.
On Call to a Nation
1958
NRHe is a man who lives half his life in France and half in Britain. Follow the Breton onion-sellers - the distinctive "Onion Johnnies," with their bicycles, berets and strings of onions, from their homes in Roscoff, Brittany to the doorsteps of houses throughout Britain.
Onion Johnnie
1957
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6.8Intimate portrait of the daily life of the British Royal Family drawn from 18 months of filming within Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
Royal Family
1969
A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.
Shellarama
1965
10.0A journey through five continents and an impression of the impact of television on peoples of different civilisations.
Television and the World
1961
10.0A journey through five continents and an impression of the impact of television on peoples of different civilisations.
Television and the World
1961
NRCasting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.
On Call to a Nation
1958
NRCasting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.
On Call to a Nation
1958
NRCasting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.
On Call to a Nation
1958
NRHe is a man who lives half his life in France and half in Britain. Follow the Breton onion-sellers - the distinctive "Onion Johnnies," with their bicycles, berets and strings of onions, from their homes in Roscoff, Brittany to the doorsteps of houses throughout Britain.
Onion Johnnie
1957
NRHe is a man who lives half his life in France and half in Britain. Follow the Breton onion-sellers - the distinctive "Onion Johnnies," with their bicycles, berets and strings of onions, from their homes in Roscoff, Brittany to the doorsteps of houses throughout Britain.
Onion Johnnie
1957
7.0An impression of twenty-four hours in the life of the British Broadcasting Corporation
This Is the BBC
1960
7.0An impression of twenty-four hours in the life of the British Broadcasting Corporation
This Is the BBC
1960
A BAFTA award nominated BBC feature following American evangelist Billy Graham on his Greater London crusade, centred on Earl's Court in June 1966
I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat
1966
