John Standing Movies

Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play...

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove...

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian...

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas...

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of...

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he...

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds...

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events...

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the...

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...

The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who...

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...

Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the...

Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.