Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide

When Rosemary Barton dies during an anniversary party everyone assumes the poison to have been self-administered. But a sleuth dispatched to solve the mystery soon begins to suspect murder...

Ancient Rome - The Rise And Fall Of An Empire

Bertie And Elizabeth (Wide Screen)

A portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship with the future George VI, the abdication crisis, the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret and the war years finally leading to Bertie's early death...

Cotton Mary (Wide Screen)

Set in 1954 India, a British woman who has recently given birth to a sickly child, becomes overly dependent upon an Anglo-Indian hospital worker.

Gosford Park

The action takes place in an old country house in England in the 1930s where friends have been invited for a shooting weekend by the man of the house - William McCordle. He is benefactor to many of his friends and relatives but it seems now that a...

Handful Of Dust, A

The story of a devoted couple who inadvertently invite an idle socialite to stay. He triggers off a series of events which will change the course of all their lives, starting with the husband running off to the Amazon where he is held prisoner by a...

Howard's End

E.M. Forster's 1910 novel is adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory Productions in this masterful Edwardian Age romance directed by James Ivory. The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret a...

Island At War

Dramatisation of the events surrounding the capture of the Channel Islands during World War II and three of the families that struggle to come to terms with life under a new, dictatorial regime.

Maurice

E.M. Forster's provocative 1914 novel, published posthumously in 1971, is brought to the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully photographed film. Set in pre-World War I England, the film concerns the coming of age of two young men who...

Minette Walters Collection (Box Set)

Four features: 'The Ice House', 'The Scold's Bridle', 'The Echo', 'The Dark Room' and 'The Sculptress' which tells the story of convicted murderess, Olive Martin, who was nicknamed 'The Sculptress' because of the way she killed and dismembered her...

Trial And Retribution - The First Collection

Gritty television drama which centres around a crime and the police investigation which follows.