Eric Allan Movies

Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red light district. On the boat going home, Clive and Stewart admit to not having spot long in the museums - so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

' No permissive society the Iron Age ... no messing about in those days.' A gruesome discovery on an archaeological excavation has more than historical interest when the love of a young man for an older woman gets out of hand

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both...

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series chart...

An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entir...

The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.

PETER: What can I do? PHYLLIDA: Surprise me. Faced with that challenge, Peter's imagination takes off in a way which surprises everyone.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.