BBC Four Popular Movie

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable and unique work of art that has survived for almost 1,000 years. Made in the 11th century, it tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Gil Scott-Heron was one of the most influential musicians and poets of the last 50 years. In Don Letts's documentary, Gil tells his own story for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gil Scott-Heron

Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos and eye witness accounts - this is the inside...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Deam

An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Sheen

Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katherine Ryan

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Sheen

Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Doris Day

The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dawn French

Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 45 years that Horizon, and he, have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Johnny Ball

Deep Purple is one of the most influential and important guitar bands in history, one of the godfathers of the heavy metal genre, with over 100...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ian Gillan

Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we shouldn't...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Al-Khalili

Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Simm

Brit Award-winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne, in this one-off BBC Four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Hull

what is everything, and what is nothing? Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Al-Khalili

Documentary telling, in her own words, the story of Carole King's upbringing in Brooklyn and the subsequent success that she had.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carole King

"Laughing with Hitler" is a journey into a supposedly humorless time. In the Third Reich, however, the Führer and his Nazi bigwigs were laughed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hubertus Bengsch

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Lee

Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keira Knightley

Public Service Broadcasting – a band who bring wit, invention and multimedia spectacle to the stage – return to the Proms after their...

Genre: Music

Cast: J. Willgoose Esq.

William Shakespeare's darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Rylance