John Shrapnel Movies

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 story of Henry Purcell.

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953...

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to...

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive...

Greece, a land of breathtaking beauty and light. A land where science, art and inspiration from the gods combined to produce some of the world's...

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

Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student...

Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife...

An adventure of A J Raffles.

St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of...

When a college student accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian, the dead man’s fiancée shows up at his door the next day, demanding...

The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethical and political writings of Ancient Greece.

Moving Half The Mountain documents the true stories of the survivors from one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War the brutal use of...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

Ralph decides to give his sister Clare a night on the town to cheer her up. They visit a burger bar and a disco in a modern precinct, and Clare gets...

'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just...