Paul McGann
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1959-11-14
Locus Natus: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Et ut:
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Theis documentary contains the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway), Yee Jee Tso (Chang...
release : 2019.01.01popularis : 1.191
Nero's Sunken City
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first...
release : 2017.04.16popularis : 1.388
The One That Got Away
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition...
release : 1996.02.18popularis : 1.787
Gypo
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The...
release : 2005.08.24popularis : 3.223
Alien³
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility....
release : 1992.05.22popularis : 52.735
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan's dramatic...
release : 2019.03.01popularis : 2.41
Withnail & I
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...
release : 1987.06.19popularis : 16.018
The Rainbow
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and...
release : 1989.05.05popularis : 3.907
Hornblower: Mutiny
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship,...
release : 2001.04.08popularis : 4.44
Doctor Who
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
release : 1996.05.12popularis : 15.428
Tiger Island
Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionaire is catching the killers and releasing them on...
release : 2012.07.26popularis : 1.193
Super Powered Owls
With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved birds. And yet it's rare to catch more than a...
release : 2015.03.03popularis : 1.475
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
The history of still life painting with oil paints
release : 2014.01.05popularis : 1.699
The Orangutan King
For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one...
release : 2005.10.19popularis : 0.927
Hornblower: Duty
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where...
release : 2003.01.06popularis : 3.328
Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
release : 2003.01.05popularis : 4.582
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and...
release : 2023.04.21popularis : 7.073
Lesbian Vampire Killers
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the...
release : 2009.03.16popularis : 12.629
My Kingdom
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and...
release : 2001.09.10popularis : 4.131
Godard & Others
An uncompromising anarchic comedy about the state of independent film making in Britain's ever increasing surveillance society. With specific...
release : 2010.08.01popularis : 1.743
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks 'Who is...
release : 2014.08.01popularis : 2.895
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving...
release : 2012.10.17popularis : 4.511
Catherine the Great
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to...
release : 1996.04.28popularis : 5.261
Dealers
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their...
release : 1989.11.03popularis : 2.822
Paper Mask
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a...
release : 1990.09.14popularis : 4.02
Hornblower: Retribution
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving...
release : 2001.04.15popularis : 3.483
Downtime
Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old...
release : 1997.10.21popularis : 1.219
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his...
release : 2014.03.03popularis : 0.372
Swallow Your Dreams
James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expense of his marriage - he attempts to re-create in...
release : 2022.09.12popularis : 1.052
Otherworld
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the...
release : 2003.06.26popularis : 4.403
Withnail and Us
A short documentary about the making of "Withnail & I" (1987).
release : 1999.08.04popularis : 2.613
Drowning in the Shallow End
A writer struggles to stay afloat as his romantic and professional prospects crumble.
release : 1990.01.28popularis : 2.611
The Day of the Sun Dog
A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’ leads to a sign from the afterlife...
release : 2023.11.26popularis : 0.594
If I Had You
A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in which her married ex-lover is the chief...
release : 2006.05.01popularis : 0.565
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been front page news ever since. Ian Brady fantasized...
release : 2013.07.11popularis : 0.902
Hotel!
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to...
release : 2001.02.17popularis : 1.611
The Importance of Being Earnest
Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...
release : 1988.05.29popularis : 3.207
Star Trek Story
Gene Roddenberry's Utopian vision of humanity in the 24th century had a profound effect on American viewers. During the height of the Cold War, the...
release : 1996.08.26popularis : 1.996
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved....
release : 2013.11.23popularis : 7.94
The Merchant of Venice
A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 1.506
The Undertaker
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.
release : 2023.11.03popularis : 6.08
Talking Doctor Who
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the...
release : 2023.11.01popularis : 1.347
Doctor Who Am I
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry...
release : 2022.10.27popularis : 4.139
My Dad Was a Communist
Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.
release : 2008.08.23popularis : 1.621
Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
A hugely successful television and film actor, Paul McGann played the Eighth incarnation of Doctor Who in the 1996 television film - a pilot that,...
release : 2019.04.23popularis : 0.301
Lie with Me
In this made-for-television thriller, Roselyn Tyler (Eve Best) awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that...
release : 2004.11.15popularis : 5.132
Cariani and the Courtesans
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger...
release : 1987.08.05popularis : 0.839
Death of an Idealist
Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 0.907
Empire of the Sun
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...
release : 1987.12.09popularis : 20.78
Afraid of the Dark
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
release : 1991.10.10popularis : 6.511
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in...
release : 2013.11.23popularis : 23.938
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne Ashbrook was cast as the eighth Doctor’s...
release : 2005.02.01popularis : 1.171
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk....
release : 2014.10.13popularis : 1.855
Gaskin
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 1.431
Queen of the Damned
Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world, rekindling the desires of all-powerful Akasha.
release : 2002.02.10popularis : 20.045
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
release : 1984.12.31popularis : 1.263
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been...
release : 1993.11.11popularis : 23.126
The Dance of Shiva
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers...
release : 1998.12.18popularis : 2.113
The Hanging Gale
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 5.363
Brakes
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse,...
release : 2017.11.24popularis : 3.245
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a...
release : 2013.11.14popularis : 3.254
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China,...
release : 2014.11.30popularis : 2.495
Always Crashing in the Same Car
At a late-night meeting with nine colleagues, James, an executive of some sort, wants action to avoid their potential loss of millions of pounds...
release : 2007.06.03popularis : 1.52
Absence
A short film about the grieving process starring Paul McGann.
release : 2015.10.16popularis : 1.549
The 9/11 Surfer
Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery Channel documentary on the 11th anniversary of...
release : 2011.09.10popularis : 0.526
Fables of Forgotten Things
A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.
release : 2008.09.01popularis : 0.585
Blood Strangers
A mother is dealt a double blow when she learns that her murdered teenage daughter was working as a prostitute.
release : 2002.02.03popularis : 3.979
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famous band. The documentary looks at the emergence...
release : 2016.09.05popularis : 0.652
B&B
Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote Christian B&B. Events take a deadly turn when...
release : 2017.04.13popularis : 7.48
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vancouver, Canada. Sylvester McCoy flew out to join...
release : 1996.04.01popularis : 2.348
FairyTale: A True Story
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
release : 1997.10.24popularis : 7.149
The Monk
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace....
release : 1990.01.17popularis : 2.601
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors David Tennant, Paul McGann, Peter Davison and...
release : 2011.10.31popularis : 3.714
The Other Prince William
For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding...
release : 2015.08.27popularis : 0.6
Picasso's Last Stand
Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the...
release : 2018.03.24popularis : 0.652
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Documentary investigating the events during and after the assassination of John F Kennedy.
release : 2013.11.13popularis : 1.118
World of Compulsive Hoarders
Four compulsive hoarders are driven to accumulate objects but can't bear to throw them out -- to the point where their "stuff" takes over their lives.
release : 2007.05.02popularis : 1.226
Art Is...
A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition.
release : 2013.04.01popularis : 0.589
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The...
release : 2018.01.01popularis : 1.847
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just...
release : 2015.06.02popularis : 2.668
Davros Connections
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls together the whole of the Davros Boxset into a single...
release : 2007.11.26popularis : 2.037
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?
release : 2012.04.16popularis : 2.99
Ghosts on the Underground
More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising...
release : 2005.10.31popularis : 1.473
The Biographer
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
release : 2002.09.01popularis : 0.594
Doctor Who: Shada
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A...
release : 2003.05.02popularis : 1.708
The Day John Lennon Died
Reconstructing John’s last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John knew and those he encountered before his...
release : 2010.12.06popularis : 1.836
Streets of Yesterday
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing...
release : 1989.05.01popularis : 1.256
Whistling Wally
17 year old Kevin discovers that his sick father, Whistling Wally, is dying.
release : 1982.04.06popularis : 2.172
Listening
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in...
release : 2003.10.03popularis : 2.496
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On" - a unique documentary...
release : 2019.04.24popularis : 1.402
Tree of Hands
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
release : 1989.03.07popularis : 1.472
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast...
release : 2003.12.02popularis : 6.808
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. This super-sized...
release : 2017.09.24popularis : 1.661
Perplexed Music
The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Paul McGann as he battles for reason and stability...
release : 2017.01.01popularis : 1.645
Kidnapped
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his...
release : 2005.02.27popularis : 3.296