Red Joan

Red Joan 2018

6.64

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

2018

H Is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk 2025

7.08

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.

2025

Another Country

Another Country 1984

6.50

In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to his becoming a spy.

1984

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards 2007

7.37

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

2007

True Blue

True Blue 1996

5.70

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

1996

The History Boys

The History Boys 2006

6.62

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

2006

Scholastic England

Scholastic England 1948

7.00

This MGM Traveltalk short focuses on the history of England's colleges in Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton and the towns that surround the campuses.

1948

The Real Spies Among Friends

The Real Spies Among Friends 2022

8.00

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

2022

Doctor Who: Shada

Doctor Who: Shada 2003

7.30

Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remounted version of the abandoned Fourth Doctor serial, rewritten to feature the Eighth Doctor and fit in with the Big Finish audio drama continuity.

2003

Star Men

Star Men 2015

7.20

Four exceptional astronomers celebrate 50 years of work and friendship on a return road trip in the southwestern United States, recapturing youthful adventures and recounting each other's influences on the most exciting period in astronomy’s history. Roger the instrument-maker, Donald the theoretician, Nick the visionary, and Wal the observer. Together they represent the most productive period astronomy has ever had. They helped build the world’s biggest observatories and made revolutionary discoveries about the evolving universe, discoveries that have the power to change the way humanity sees itself. Alison Rose’s film is a funny, insightful, humbling and intimate portrait of friendship, as the men reflect on how their profound work on the universe has reflected back on the individual, affecting their sense of religious faith, how life may have purpose, and what is knowable and unknowable.

2015

Bet Dead Casino

Bet Dead Casino 1970

1

A woman who has recently lost her father finds herself in a desperate situation when she gets abducted by a sinister criminal who has a taste for Carnage.

1970

Old Suffolk Boy

Old Suffolk Boy 1970

1

An in-depth look at the life and career of veteran illustrator and bluegrass musician John Holder.

1970

Massachusetts Avenue: Life Along Cambridge’s Main Artery

Massachusetts Avenue: Life Along Cambridge’s Main Artery 2025

1

A high-flying whirlwind grand tour of Mass. Ave. featuring stunning aerial cinematography, revealing interviews with small business owners, controversial news-making stories (the MIT and Harvard encampments), a look at the city’s political life and the Ave’s history, Central Square’s dance party as seen from above, more dance (!) , our local music scene and, of course, the turkeys.

2025

Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue 1987

7.20

Cambridge, Great Britain, 1980s. When the headmaster of Porterhouse College dies without naming a successor, the government appoints a former graduate whose ideas clash with the extreme conservatism that reigns at the institution.

1987

The Glittering Prizes

The Glittering Prizes 1976

6.00

The Glittering Prizes is a six-part British television drama written by Frederic Raphael, broadcast on BBC Two in 1976. From the 1950s to 1970s, a group of Cambridge University students explore their changing lives and the 'glittering prizes' of success, academia and personal fulfillment in a shifting Britain.

1976