Michael Hordern

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but then gets a visit from his companion Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. He urges Scrooge to change his life.

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. Michael Hordern and Derek Godfrey star. Exiled, Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and finds herself banished. The elder daughters plot a cruel betrayal against him which ultimately threatens the kingdom and the King's own sanity.

In this absurdist comedy, the 20 British survivors of nuclear war are keeping calm and carrying on despite the wreckage all around them.

A poor doctor's daughter wins the hand of Bertram, the son of the Countess of Rousillon. Newlywed Helena is abandoned by a petulant Bertram who insists that she may not call him husband until she gets from him a ring and can bear him a child. Helena ever determined sets her plan into action to complete these impossible tasks and follows Bertram to Italy.

Commandos, posing as German soldiers, parachute into a city to rescue a supposed allied General from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car.

A bitter old miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns genuine compassion when three spirits individually visit him on Christmas Eve.

Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold star as King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn in this emotionally charged drama about one of history's most famous tragic love affairs. Nominated for nine Academy Awards®, this magnificent Hal Wallis production features stunning technicolor photography and outstanding Oscar®-winning period costumes. Co-starring Irene Papas and Anthony Quayle, Anne of a Thousand Days, set against the pageantry and political intrigue of 16th century England, traces the ill-fated marriage between Anne and her King, from its spirited beginning to its tragic finale.

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister marries off his son, Guildford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. Once sat atop the throne, the young couple faces the dangers that come with great power.

In this adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel, a bitter old miser is given a chance at redemption when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

When a young woman is forced to be her step-family’s servant after her father dies, her fairy godmother sends her to a royal ball to meet a prince.

A rich merchant's beautiful daughter and her volatile older sister are courted by rival suitors in this rambunctious version of Shakespeare's comedy.

In the 1880s, a British-commanded Egyptian army is tasked with defending the capital of Sudan from an invading army comprised of Muslim zealots.

Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers and an all-star cast scam their way through this boisterous romp amidst gorgeous girls, mistaken identities, stunning surprises, cunning disguises and great Sondheim songs.

Shipped to a tropical island by his family, a hard-drinking English playboy finds redemption when he helps a missionary fight a cholera outbreak.