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Duration: 1 hour, 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Wales (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Adventure drama. A health scare prompts eccentric New Zealander Burt Munro to attempt to break the land speed record on his treasured Indian Scout motorcycle. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters. Family and state collapse into chaos and warfare. Lear and his youngest, Cordelia, are reunited; love reigns, then tragedy descends. Show more

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Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Adaptation of a Philip Roth novel, in which a classics professor struggles to guard a terrible secret. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. Show more

Contributors

Coleman Silk:
Anthony Hopkins
Faunia Farley:
Nicole Kidman
Lester Farley:
Ed Harris
Director:
Robert Benton
Nathan Zuckerman:
Gary Sinise
Nelson Primus:
Clark Gregg
Producer:
Tom Rosenberg
Producer:
Gary Lucchesi
Ernestine:
Lizan Mitchell
Iris Silk:
Phyllis Newman
Young Coleman Silk:
Wentworth Miller
Steena Paulsson:
Jacinda Barrett
Mr Silk:
Harry Lennix

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Duration: 2 hours, 8 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Sweeping epic about three sons raised on a Montana ranch, tracing the impact on their lives of two great forces: the Great War and the love of a young woman. Show more

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Tristan Ludlow:
Brad Pitt
Director:
Edward Zwick
Col. William Ludlow:
Anthony Hopkins
Alfred Ludlow:
Aidan Quinn
Susannah Fincannon Ludlow:
Julia Ormond
Samuel Ludlow:
Henry Thomas
Isabel Two:
Karina Lombard
James O'Banion:
John Novak
Isabel Ludlow:
Christina Pickles
Producer:
Edward Zwick
Composer:
James Horner
Director of photography:
John Toll

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Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Film drama with Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law. Need, greed, temptation and fascination prevail as assorted people find physical and emotional connections in unexpected places. Show more

First broadcast: on BBC One WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Thriller starring Anthony Hopkins. A man takes his dead twin brother's place as a CIA operative in order to trap a gang of terrorists, but then the criminals kidnap his fiancee. Show more

Contributors

Officer Oakes:
Anthony Hopkins
Jake Hayes / Michael Turner:
Chris Rock
Adrik Vas:
Peter Stormare
Officer Seale:
Gabriel Macht
Dragan Adjanic:
Matthew Marsh
Michelle 'The Hammer' Petrov:
Dragan Micanovic
Roland Yates:
John Slattery
Officer Swanson:
Brooke Smith
Officer Carew:
Daniel Sunjata
Officer McCain:
Wills Robbins
Mrs. Banks:
Irma P Hall
Darius:
Petr Jakl
Officer Dempsey:
Dan Ziskie
Officer Ferren:
John Aylward
Officer Fink:
John Fink
Mrs. Patterson:
Deborah Rush
Hotel Manager:
Jan Nemejovsky
CIA Officer:
Steven Fisher
Producer:
Mike Stenson

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Duration: 2 hours, 25 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One SouthLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Epic historical drama which follows a legal battle over a shipload of slaves who overpowered their captors at sea and landed on the shores of America. Morgan Freeman stars. Show more

Contributors

Theodore Joadson:
Morgan Freeman
John Quincy Adams:
Anthony Hopkins
Clinque (Sengbe):
Djimon Hounsou
Roger S Baldwin:
Matthew McConaughey
Martin Van Buren:
Nigel Hawthorne
Lewis Tappan:
Stellan Skarsgard
US Secretary of State:
David Paymer
Queen Isabella:
Anna Paquin
Ensign Covey:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Lieutenant Gedney:
Ralph Brown
Captain Fitzgerald:
Peter Firth
Judge Coglin:
Jeremy Northam
John C Calhoun:
Arliss Howard
Producer:
Colin Wilson
Composer:
John Williams
Director of photography:
Janusz Kaminski

Duration: 2 hours, 17 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Richard Attenborough's biopic recounting the eventful early life of Winston Churchill, including his time as a war correspondent in Africa. With Simon Ward and Anne Bancroft. Show more

Contributors

Winston Churchill:
Simon Ward
Lord Randolph Churchill:
Robert Shaw
Lady Jennie Churchill:
Anne Bancroft
General Kitchener:
John Mills
Mr Welldon:
Jack Hawkins
George E Buckle:
Ian Holm
General Bindon Blood:
Patrick Magee
Captain Aylmer Haldane:
Edward Woodward
David Lloyd George:
Anthony Hopkins
Captain, 35th Sikhs:
Peter Cellier
Adjutant, 35th Sikhs:
Ronald Hines
Mrs Everest:
Pat Heywood
Lord Salisbury:
Laurence Naismith
Joseph Chamberlain:
Basil Dignam
Headmaster:
Robert Hardy
Officer on Train:
James Cosmo
Party Chairman:
Norman Bird
Prince of Wales:
Reginald Marsh
Major Finn:
Thorley Walters
Pamela Plowden:
Jane Seymour
Captain Weaver:
Dinsdale Landen
Sikh Soldier:
Dino Shafeek
Producer:
Carl Foreman

Duration: 1 hour, 34 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Romantic drama based on the true story of a love affair by letters between an outspoken New York writer and the owner of a dusty bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road. Show more

Contributors

Helene Hanff:
Anne Bancroft
Frank Doel:
Anthony Hopkins
Nora Doel:
Judi Dench
Maxine Bellamy:
Jean De Baer
George Martin:
Maurice Denham
Cecily Farr:
Eleanor David
Composer:
George Fenton
Director:
David Jones

Duration: 1 hour, 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Moving drama film. In 1884, an ambitious young surgeon is intrigued by a disfigured sideshow freak billed as the Elephant Man and takes him under his wing. Show more

Contributors

John Merrick:
John Hurt
Frederick Treves:
Anthony Hopkins
Mrs Madge Kendal:
Anne Bancroft
Francis Carr-Gomm:
John Gielgud
Mrs Mothershead:
Wendy Hiller
Mr Bytes:
Freddie Jones
Bytes's Boy:
Dexter Fletcher
Mrs Treves:
Hannah Gordon
The Night Porter:
Michael Elphick
Director:
David Lynch

Duration: 1 hour, 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC One London

The story of a young boy who befriends an enigmatic lodger renting a room in his mother's family boarding house and learns that the stranger possesses supernatural gifts. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 51 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Equestrian sequel to the 1944 classic National Velvet, telling the story of a young horsewoman's bid to leave the shadows of her famous aunt and gain Olympic glory. Show more

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Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins. When a brilliant but mentally ill mathematician dies, his daughter is worried that she too will suffer from a mental disorder. Show more

Contributors

Catherine:
Gwyneth Paltrow
Claire:
Hope Davis
Director:
John Madden
Professor Barrow:
Gary Houston
Friend at Party:
Anne Wittman
Friend at Party:
Leigh Zimmerman
Theoretical Physicist:
Colin Stinton
Band Vocalist:
Leland Burnett
University Friend:
John Keefe
University Friend:
Chipo Chung
University Friend:
C Gerod Harris
Professor Bhandari:
Roshan Seth
Producer:
Robert Kessel
Producer:
Alison Owen
Producer:
Jeffrey Sharp
Director of photography:
Alwin Kuchler

Front Row

Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, Jafar Panahi's Taxi, Guy Garvey

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson. Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen discuss their TV adaptation of Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser, and Jafar Panahi's Taxi is reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Hopkins
Interviewed Guest:
Ian McKellen
Interviewed Guest:
Kamin Mohammadi
Interviewed Guest:
Guy Garvey

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Three HD

Available for years

The hammer-wielding hero returns for more mythology-inspired action from Marvel, this time battling a sinister race of Dark Elves to bring order to the cosmos. Show more

Duration: 2 hours, 3 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 9 months

Romantic drama. CS Lewis, Oxford don and well-known children's author, appears to be content with his quiet academic life until he meets the forthright American poet Joy Gresham. Show more

Contributors

Jack Lewis:
Anthony Hopkins
Joy Gresham:
Debra Winger
Warnie Lewis:
Edward Hardwicke
Douglas Gresham:
Joseph Mazzello
Desmond Arding:
Julian Fellowes
Christopher Riley:
John Wood
Arnold Dopliss:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Rupert Parrish:
Andrew Hawkins
Doctor Craig:
Peter Firth

Duration: 2 hours, 7 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 9 months

Mr Stevens, formerly the butler to the German sympathiser Lord Darlington, gets a letter from former colleague Miss Kenton. Show more