Michael Pennington Movies
- 1969
Hamlet
Hamlet5.61969HD
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed),it is shot almo...
- 2005
Fragile
Fragile6.512005HD
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that...
- 1983
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi7.8931983HD
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc...
- 1970
Mad Jack
Mad Jack01970HD
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
- 1978
Danton's Death
Danton's Death01978HD
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when...
- 1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes5.21987HD
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
- 2011
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady6.42011HD
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
- 2014
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words72014HD
The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made.
- 2008
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale6.72008HD
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
- 1982
Outside Edge
Outside Edge01982HD
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...
- 1976
The Witches of Pendle
The Witches of Pendle01976HD
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
- 1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King21986HD
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...
- 1982
Cymbeline
Cymbeline6.61982HD
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go...
- 2015
1945: The Savage Peace
1945: The Savage Peace7.42015HD
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans...
- 1984
The Mayor of Montemilone
The Mayor of Montemilone51984HD
Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dyin...
- 2013
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II7.82013HD
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of...
- 2002
Pyramid
Pyramid62002HD
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could n...
- 2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death7.22003HD
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator...
- 2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali02021HD
A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life an...
- 1986
The Marlowe Inquest
The Marlowe Inquest11986HD
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re...