John Shrapnel Filmes

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive...

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to...

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

For two-thirds of the year, the Little Rann is a desert. Suddenly, in August, monsoon winds whip up the Arabian Sea and carry it 100 km inland. The...

Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers,...

A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

A mysterious boy bursts into an internet café, claiming he is being chased by a murderous foe. The owner does not share his urgency, nor does...

Schönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the...

The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.

100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides...

Greece, a land of breathtaking beauty and light. A land where science, art and inspiration from the gods combined to produce some of the world's...

Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The plot to kill him masterminded in England and...

When a college student accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian, the dead man’s fiancée shows up at his door the next day, demanding...

Moving Half The Mountain documents the true stories of the survivors from one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War the brutal use of...