Browse 32 movies from BBC One
Archive footage of interviews, concerts and personal material bring to light the solo performance work of Mercury, the lead singer of Queen.
Sep 2012
Over an extraordinary acting career spanning a decade, Stephen Rea has shown himself to be a versatile, prolific and mercurial talent. With unprecedented access to an internationally renowned creative figure, this intimate documentary explores the development of his radical outlook through the actor’s life and work.
Feb 2025
Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr. Halliday Sutherland for libel, since she thinks he criticized her birth control clinic. A lawyer named Patrick Hastings comes to represent Stopes, and judge Ernest Charles comes to represented Dr. Halliday Sutherland.
Jun 1970
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
Feb 1981
Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion.
Oct 1993
An uplifting insight into the lives of seven-year-old conjoined twins, who weren’t expected to live more than a few days. Cared for by their devoted father, the girls have defied all odds.
Feb 2024
The english villages are under siege by Viking invaders, leaving destruction and fear in their wake.
Dec 1976
In Morriston Hospital in Swansea in 1994 a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men stepped into the unknown by taking part in the world's first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra.
Oct 2024
A small fish with a big imagination gets lost in the deep wide ocean, until he is saved by his own storytelling.
Dec 2024
UK police investigation into paedophiles sharing images of child abuse on the internet. This started as an FBI investigation into the Landslide website. FBI passed details to police forces around the world. In most countries, the arrests were made swiftly. UK police took their time, allowing paedophiles to destroy evidence. Most suspects were never investigated, including many prominent people.
Mar 2004
Busker Fred and his cat Tabby McTat entertain and delight passersby with music across London. One day, Fred falls, injures his leg, and is whisked away in an ambulance, leaving Tabby alone on the city's streets.
Nearly 30 years after her debut novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with Alan Yentob to the scenes of her extraordinary childhood in Lancashire.
Dec 2012
Nov 2012
Peter Righton, once a respected child protection expert and social care worker, fell from grace when customs discovered illegal material being mailed to him from Europe. This led to the revelation that he was a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Further investigations uncovered that he had abused children at a boarding school. Shockingly, Righton confessed to past abuses to his child protection colleagues, but they failed to act on this information out of loyalty to him.
Jun 1994
Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
Dec 1986
Jane Corbin presents an investigation into the activities of the Wonderland Club global paedophile ring, which used computer technology to exchange child pornography. Including interviews with club members and with parents of their victims.
Feb 2001
Set and filmed in North Norfolk, Rhys plays Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school. Laura stars as Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
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imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.
Dec 2023
The nation's grief, told through personal stories. With over 220,000 dead, for some it's a fight for truth and justice, for others it's a journey to adjust to a new normality.
Mar 2025
Michael Sheen faces the interview of a lifetime with The Assembly, a group of autistic, neurodivergent, and learning disabled people. Expect revelation, chaos, and a lot of laughs.
Apr 2024