Robert Powell Movies

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the...

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's sense of drama was born out of his own experience...

Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

Documentary in which the late impressionist's daughters get to the truth about their father's rise to fame and record-breaking success, and his...

A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.

With new interviews with the actors and production team, this documentary reveals the inspiration for stories, outlines how the team knew they were...

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared...

The cast of a British soap opera are attacked by a mad fan who confuses them with their TV roles.

The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been...

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Robert Powell narrates this engrossing exploration of one of France and Britain's most thrilling and decisive conflicts: the Battle of Trafalgar. The...

Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic...

When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a...

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a...

Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902...