David M. Thompson Movies

A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He...

Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin is hurtling through space. Down below, 7-year-old Billy Wilson keeps watching the skies, itching for an encounter...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a...

A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are...

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage...

A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.

After the body of a 14-year-old girl is found in a field, detective Ted Lyle and his wife Sandra are among local parents caught up in a wave of fear...

The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.

Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been...

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a...

Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...