John Hurt Movies

With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept production...

Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a...

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.

The actor of John Merrick answers questions about the work on "The Elephant Man"

A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's...

A two-scene introduction that was shown exclusively in advance of the 50th anniversary theatrical screenings of The Day of the Doctor.

Facing total extinction, a military operation turns to the stars in order to relocate the entire human race. During the exodus, one man is sent to...

This 54 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the...

BP's centenary celebration film. The film includes archive footage, dramatic reconstruction and interviews with BP employees.

The Storyteller recounts the time he was caught making a fool of the royal cook and, as punishment meted out by the King, must tell one story a day...

An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity...

A white lion comes to the aid of a girl being held under the cruel care of a troll.

An elderly widower sets in motion series of events to veil his disappearance from a nursing home. After gathering necessities he heads to the local...

Two university students, one a physiologist, the other an economist, have been sharing an apartment, but now one of them is about to depart for work...

A carefree, absent-minded boy who is never scared goes on a strange journey to discover fear.

On the whole, giants are benign creatures, harmless to none, unless of course the giant hasn't a heart. A curious prince is fooled into freeing one...

Because of kind acts toward three beggars, an honest soldier returning from war is given a magical sack, an unbeatable deck of cards, a ruby whistle...

Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child...

Adaptation of Pirandello's play.

A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a...