Leslie Woodhead Movies

The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the...

On August 6 1945, one plane dropped one bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the city was destroyed and 80,000 people were dead....

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star....

The doctor who tried to save him. The Secret Service agent who was seconds too late. The man wrongly accused of his murder. And the woman who...

Ten years later, the events of September 11, 2001, still resonate - especially for the people who were in critical leadership positions on that...

A portrait of Randy Newman, the American singer-songwriter, arranger and composer known for his Southern-affected singing style, early...

An investigative report inside the realm, and inside the mind, of one of the most effective and brutal tyrants of the past 50 years: Slobodan...

A dramatization of the Polish shipyard workers' strike in 1971.

Storyville investigates British espionage in the Cold War, featuring an insight into the career of Leslie Woodhead , who was recruited by a spy...

Once dubbed the 'king of cool', a look at the man behind the silky voice as Tony Bennett - civil rights activist, jazz enthusiast, painter and New...

The gold medal for the men's 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Witness the definitive story of Princess Diana's funeral as we relive the day through the eyes of those who were there.

Documentary about atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair who, for 30 notorious years, successfully challenged God in America, and was brutally murdered in the...

Retrospective documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the funeral of Princess Diana narrated by Kate Winslet.

For three decades the Soviet Union's obsession with space stirred the soul of the nation like a secular religion - from the first space star Yuri...

On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. For three days, more than a thousand...

Documentary about the murders of six Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003 and the subsequent police investigation which some, including human...

Documentary about the fall of Srebrenica (Bosnian civil war, 1995). For a large part consisting of original video material shot by people involved...

Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.