John Bird Movies

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick,...

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...