Movies: Yorkshire Television

  • 1990
    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea (1990)

    The Old Man and the Sea

    6.31990HD

    Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch....

    The Old Man and the Sea
  • 2002
    Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

    Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002)

    Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

    6.72002HD

    James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death ra...

    Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
  • 2001
    The Innocent

    The Innocent (2001)

    The Innocent

    02001HD

    A happily married housewife is devastated when her husband is accused of rape by her best friend - but who is telling the truth?...

    The Innocent
  • 2002
    Best Ever Bond

    Best Ever Bond (2002)

    Best Ever Bond

    52002HD

    Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments....

    Best Ever Bond
  • 2002
    A Is for Acid

    A Is for Acid (2002)

    A Is for Acid

    7.12002HD

    Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the aci...

    A Is for Acid
  • 1990
    Missing Persons

    Missing Persons (1990)

    Missing Persons

    41990HD

    During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Het...

    Missing Persons
  • 2006
    Ghostboat

    Ghostboat (2006)

    Ghostboat

    6.82006HD

    Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission that l...

    Ghostboat
  • 1979
    You're Not Watching Me, Mummy

    You're Not Watching Me, Mummy (1979)

    You're Not Watching Me, Mummy

    01979HD

    Actress attended by homosexual dresser....

    You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
  • 1993
    15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight

    15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight (1993)

    15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight

    51993HD

    A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990....

    15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
  • 1987
    The Falklands War: The Untold Story

    The Falklands War: The Untold Story (1987)

    The Falklands War: The Untold Story

    81987HD

    Five years after the war in the Falklands between Britain and Argentina, many facts were still wrapped in red tape. Many of the key figures had remained silent. No-one had been to Argentina to tell the other side of the story. For the majority of the...

    The Falklands War: The Untold Story
  • 1985
    Romance on the Orient Express

    Romance on the Orient Express (1985)

    Romance on the Orient Express

    5.21985HD

    Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when ...

    Romance on the Orient Express
  • 1984
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein (1984)

    Frankenstein

    5.41984HD

    A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results....

    Frankenstein
  • 1976
    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley (1976)

    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

    61976HD

    Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town....

    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley
  • 1998
    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998)

    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

    9.51998HD

    Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children....

    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
  • 1988
    Tears in the Rain

    Tears in the Rain (1988)

    Tears in the Rain

    4.91988HD

    When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother....

    Tears in the Rain
  • 1998
    Neville's Island

    Neville's Island (1998)

    Neville's Island

    5.61998HD

    Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district...

    Neville's Island
  • 1977
    Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding (1977)

    Love Lies Bleeding

    01977HD

    Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are a mixture of the stupid and intelligent, imaginative and unimaginative. One of them is a major polit...

    Love Lies Bleeding
  • 1978
    Aren't We All

    Aren't We All (1978)

    Aren't We All

    01978HD

    production of the play by Frederick Lonsdale. Lord Grenham, a womaniser all his life, tries to mend his son's marriage and finds he might have met his match....

    Aren't We All
  • 1969
    Remember the Germans

    Remember the Germans (1969)

    Remember the Germans

    01969HD

    The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his old University....

    Remember the Germans
  • 1968
    Funeral Games

    Funeral Games (1968)

    Funeral Games

    01968HD

    Pringle, leader of the Brotherhood, recieves an anonymous letter accusing his wife of adultery. He employs a private investigator, Caulfield, who discovers things are not quite that straightforward. Joe Orton's last play for television: a farce....

    Funeral Games