"Favorite" playlist

Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive televisual portrait of the Hol...

Holocaust Night Will Fall (2014)

Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German c...

Ricky Gervais Live: Animals (2003)

Filmed during a limited run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, the show is based around Ricky’s fascination with the animal kingdom (including that curious sp...

Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 - The Stand-Up Special(TV 2010) (2010)

Stand-up comic Ricky Gervais has his second HBO special.

Patton (1970)

The story of General George S. Patton, Jr. during World War II. His battlefield genius garners him fear and respect from the Germans, and resentment and misund...

Almost Famous (2000)

An aspiring teenage rock journalist gets his big break when he follows an up-and-coming band on its tour.

Best of Men (2012)

Towards the end of the second world war Dr Luis Guttmann,a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany,arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital and is appalled to find the part...

I Have Never Forgotten You - The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)

A documentary on the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.

In Bruges (2008)

A Christmas story. Should one who killed a child be allowed to live? Harry Waters, a London thug, sends Irish hitmen Ken and Ray to Bruges to lie low after a j...

Johnny Got His Gun (1972)

Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death --- a quadruple am...

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Sgt. Nicholas Angel is just about the perfect copper: honest, reliable, and dedicated to public duty. The only problem is that he is too good. He arrest record...

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerou...

Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame (2007)

Ricky Gervais performs live in his stand-up show FAME, which became Britain's fastest-selling live tour at the time. Gervais discusses his fame and the resultin...

Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics (2004)

Ricky Gervais recorded live at the Palace Theatre in London in 2004. Subjects up for discussion include Thora Hird, and being mistaken for Johnny Vegas.

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever expe...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being est...

Ricky Gervais: Out of England - The Stand-Up Special (2008)

Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-...

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant ...

Control (2007)

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (1976)

The members of Led Zeppelin are called back from vacation by manager Peter Grant to play Madison Square Garden. The film is enhanced by each of the band member'...

The Vicar of Dibley (1994)

A boisterous female minister comes to serve in an eccentricly conservative small town's church.

The Hour (2011)

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news pr...

The Bletchley Circle (2012)

In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer.

Inspector George Gently (2007)

Inspector George Gently: Chief Inspector George Gently of Scotland Yard is an old-fashioned policeman who has gained respect but few friends through his singl...

Death in Paradise (2011)

A detective inspector is transferred from the Met in London to the island of Saint-Marie in the Caribbean; unfortunately, he dislikes sun, sea and sand.

Bomb Girls (2012)

A drama about World War II women at work in a munitions factory.

Vera (2011)

The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show...

Midsomer Murders (1997)

A veteran DCI and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer.

The Nerdist (2011)

Put out the cigarette and pack up the Bunsen burners because Jon Hamm and Betsy Brandt are Chris Hardwick's guests tonight on BBC America's The Nerdist show!

Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976)

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

DCI Banks (2010)

DCI Banks: DCI Banks is based on the successful detective novel written by crime writer Peter Robinson. The series stars Stephen Tompkinson as DCI Banks. Two ...

The Thin Blue Line (1995)

Various mishaps at a police station in an English Hamlet. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, ...

McHale's Navy (1962)

The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew during World War II.

X Company (2015)

X COMPANY is an emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of ...

Ancient Aliens (2009)

Ancient Aliens The Series: Ancient Aliens: What if life on Earth began in outer space? Millions of people accept the theory that intelligent life forms visited ...

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001)

British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara...

Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016)

Join or Die with Craig Ferguson features the comedian debating provocative and timely topics in his unorthodox and iconoclastic manner. Each episode features a ...

Celebrity Name Game (2014)

A team of people guess the names of famous celebrities, based on descriptions and categories.

Spies of Warsaw (2013)

A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.

Gladiators of World War II (2002)