Jim Carter Movies

A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance with him if he presents her with a red rose. The...

Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming...

A documentary that investigates the phenomenon of Scandinavian crime drama and its worldwide success.

Beryl Bainbridge on Samuel Johnson and her novel According To Queenie - Johnson through the eyes of Queenie Thrale, the eldest daughter of Henry and...

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's...

The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

This is the story of Alton Towers today and yesterday. We take a privileged journey through images dating back to the 1870s - through film dating...

Documentary about the pre-Beatles rock era, when a series of British acts created a unique copy of American rock 'n' roll

It's Britains greatest prehistoric monument but for millennia the origins of Stonehenge have remained a mystery. Now, archaeologist Mike Parker...

A feature-length tribute to the age and spirit of Punk, which begins as a gentle ramble through the pasture of popular culture and spirals into a...

Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

Juliet Stevenson stars as prosecutor Helen West from the popular crime novels by Frances Fyfield. Helen and her significant other, Chief...

In 1939, visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis designed a very special bomb that would bounce across water and destroy German dams. The raid in...

Exploring various aspects of history and the human species including war, love & sex, all with a playful, tongue-in-cheek humour.

Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".

Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now...

Hugh Williams is a father trapped in an endless nightmare of repetition and ritual as family life continues around him. This observational...