John Bird Movies

  • 1980
    High Tide

    High Tide

    High Tide

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    Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last...

    High Tide
  • 1989
    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

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    After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth...

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
  • 1981
    Fothergill

    Fothergill

    Fothergill

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    John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

    Fothergill
  • 1983
    The Falklands Factor

    The Falklands Factor

    The Falklands Factor

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    Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...

    The Falklands Factor
  • 1985
    Mrs. Capper's Birthday

    Mrs. Capper's Birthday

    Mrs. Capper's Birthday

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    Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

    Mrs. Capper's Birthday
  • 1979
    Red, White, and Zero

    Red, White, and Zero

    Red, White, and Zero

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    Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

    Red, White, and Zero
  • 1981
    Timon of Athens

    Timon of Athens

    Timon of Athens

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    Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

    Timon of Athens
  • 1988
    Scarfe's Follies

    Scarfe's Follies

    Scarfe's Follies

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    Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

    Scarfe's Follies
  • 1969
    A Promise of Bed

    A Promise of Bed

    A Promise of Bed

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    Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...

    A Promise of Bed
  • 1970
    Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here

    Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here

    Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here

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    Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

    Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here
  • 1979
    Blue Remembered Hills

    Blue Remembered Hills

    Blue Remembered Hills

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    On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

    Blue Remembered Hills
  • 1980
    A Walk in the Forest

    A Walk in the Forest

    A Walk in the Forest

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    A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

    A Walk in the Forest
  • 1979
    The Last Window Cleaner

    The Last Window Cleaner

    The Last Window Cleaner

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    When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...

    The Last Window Cleaner
  • 1990
    Circles Of Deceit

    Circles Of Deceit

    Circles Of Deceit

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    Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

    Circles Of Deceit
  • 2003
    Between Iraq and a Hard Place

    Between Iraq and a Hard Place

    Between Iraq and a Hard Place

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    The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

    Between Iraq and a Hard Place
  • 1987
    The Children Of Dynmouth

    The Children Of Dynmouth

    The Children Of Dynmouth

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    The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...

    The Children Of Dynmouth