John Shrapnel Movies

  • 2007
    Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

    Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

    Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

    72007HD

    The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive...

    Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
  • 2015
    Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

    Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

    Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

    7.72015HD

    A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.

    Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
  • 2002
    Whistle

    Whistle

    Whistle

    6.12002HD

    Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife...

    Whistle
  • 1991
    Selling Hitler

    Selling Hitler

    Selling Hitler

    71991HD

    In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop...

    Selling Hitler
  • 2005
    Shadow of the Sword

    Shadow of the Sword

    Shadow of the Sword

    5.72005HD

    Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them...

    Shadow of the Sword
  • 1999
    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    4.41999HD

    Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

    Mary, Mother of Jesus
  • 1996
    Two Deaths

    Two Deaths

    Two Deaths

    5.41996HD

    A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.

    Two Deaths
  • 1986
    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    21986HD

    Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
  • 1990
    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

    6.51990HD

    Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
  • 1975
    Hennessy

    Hennessy

    Hennessy

    4.71975HD

    Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict....

    Hennessy
  • 2002
    Alone

    Alone

    Alone

    4.62002HD

    Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who...

    Alone
  • 2017
    Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

    Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

    Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

    72017HD

    In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - codenamed Operation Grapple X. It was the culmination of an extraordinary scientific...

    Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
  • 1969
    The Ha-Ha

    The Ha-Ha

    The Ha-Ha

    01969HD

    A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.

    The Ha-Ha
  • 1995
    King Arthur: His Life and Legends

    King Arthur: His Life and Legends

    King Arthur: His Life and Legends

    101995HD

    The legend of King Arthur spans centuries and has inspired countless novels and films. But who was King Arthur, and what was his real legacy? Through...

    King Arthur: His Life and Legends
  • 1987
    Partition

    Partition

    Partition

    51987HD

    The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and...

    Partition
  • 1985
    Poppyland

    Poppyland

    Poppyland

    01985HD

    He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the...

    Poppyland
  • 2008
    Chemical Wedding

    Chemical Wedding

    Chemical Wedding

    4.42008HD

    A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.

    Chemical Wedding
  • 1985
    The Burston Rebellion

    The Burston Rebellion

    The Burston Rebellion

    01985HD

    Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers,...

    The Burston Rebellion
  • 1986
    Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

    Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

    Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

    01986HD

    Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to...

    Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
  • 2003
    The Race for Everest

    The Race for Everest

    The Race for Everest

    02003HD

    The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953...

    The Race for Everest