Leslie Woodhead Movies

Retrospective documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the funeral of Princess Diana narrated by Kate Winslet.

For three decades the Soviet Union's obsession with space stirred the soul of the nation like a secular religion - from the first space star Yuri...

The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The doctor who tried to save him. The Secret Service agent who was seconds too late. The man wrongly accused of his murder. And the woman who...

Once dubbed the 'king of cool', a look at the man behind the silky voice as Tony Bennett - civil rights activist, jazz enthusiast, painter and New...

Ten years later, the events of September 11, 2001, still resonate - especially for the people who were in critical leadership positions on that...

A dramatization of the Polish shipyard workers' strike in 1971.

On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. For three days, more than a thousand...

British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star....

An investigation of the evidence for Hitler's Final Solution, together with a dramatic reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case...

A look at the history of America's multi-billion dollar missile defence system, from President Eisenhower to Reagan and Bush.

On August 6 1945, one plane dropped one bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the city was destroyed and 80,000 people were dead....

The gold medal for the men's 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Documentary on the experiences of the hostages and captors when the American embassy in Iran was captured for 14 months in 1979.

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the...

Documentary about the fall of Srebrenica (Bosnian civil war, 1995). For a large part consisting of original video material shot by people involved...

Storyville investigates British espionage in the Cold War, featuring an insight into the career of Leslie Woodhead , who was recruited by a spy...