Michael Pennington Movies
- 1983
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi7.8981983HD
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion...
- 2011
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady6.42011HD
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
- 2005
Fragile
Fragile6.5542005HD
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost...
- 2008
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale62008HD
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
- 1969
Hamlet
Hamlet5.71969HD
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot...
- 1993
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Bolshevik7.31993HD
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...
- 1982
Cymbeline
Cymbeline6.61982HD
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who...
- 2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death7.22003HD
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a...
- 1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes5.21987HD
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
- 1996
Cracker: White Ghost
Cracker: White Ghost01996HD
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
- 1976
The Witches of Pendle
The Witches of Pendle01976HD
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
- 1991
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry IV: Part 101991HD
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...
- 2015
1945: The Savage Peace
1945: The Savage Peace7.52015HD
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic...
- 2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
The Dinosaur Hunters52002HD
One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific...
- 1982
Outside Edge
Outside Edge01982HD
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...
- 1991
Henry VI: House of York
Henry VI: House of York01991HD
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
- 1994
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Degas and Pissario Fall Out01994HD
A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagines the two 19th century impressionist painters...
- 1978
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat01978HD
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's...
- 1991
Richard II
Richard II01991HD
Shakespeare's Richard II recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...
- 1985
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie01985HD
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's...