Virginia McKenna Movies

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

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The...

A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are...

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family...

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard,...

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone...

Movie star Barbara Jenkins arrives in Cannes to host an auction of her costumes, under protection of Tom Lepski. She is under surveillance of a...

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set...

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one...

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the...

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a...

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three...

A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.

A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.