Samuel West Movies

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...

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in...

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which...

1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer...

This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found...

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling...

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to...

Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future...

Tubular Bells, one of the iconic musical works of the 20th century, and the highest selling instrumental album of all time, is approaching its 50th...

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe...

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from...

Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But...

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has...

The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by Swiss author Max Frisch. The work centres around...