John Bird Movies
- 1980
High Tide
High Tide81980HD
Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last...
- 1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball7.51989HD
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth...
- 1981
Fothergill
Fothergill01981HD
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...
- 1983
The Falklands Factor
The Falklands Factor01983HD
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...
- 1985
Mrs. Capper's Birthday
Mrs. Capper's Birthday11985HD
Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.
- 1979
Red, White, and Zero
Red, White, and Zero51979HD
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...
- 1981
Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens71981HD
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...
- 1988
Scarfe's Follies
Scarfe's Follies01988HD
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.
- 1969
A Promise of Bed
A Promise of Bed2.1671969HD
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...
- 1970
Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here
Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here71970HD
Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.
- 1979
Blue Remembered Hills
Blue Remembered Hills6.51979HD
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,...
- 1980
A Walk in the Forest
A Walk in the Forest01980HD
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.
- 1979
The Last Window Cleaner
The Last Window Cleaner01979HD
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...
- 1990
Circles Of Deceit
Circles Of Deceit01990HD
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
- 2003
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Between Iraq and a Hard Place02003HD
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....
- 1987
The Children Of Dynmouth
The Children Of Dynmouth5.51987HD
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...