Ralph Richardson Movies

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van...

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the...

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas...

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

The final days in the life of a has-been English politician, as remembered by the people nearest to him.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

A dramatised introduction to the 'Y Scheme', whereby potential young naval recruits could apply for the type of job they wanted before being called...