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Barnet, 1471. Richard of Gloucester rides to his first battle at eighteen and finds his old mentor arrayed against his brother the King. A proof-of-concept short film, made with historians and reenactors, about the man before the myth.

On a foggy Easter morning in April 1471 the armies of Edward IV and Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, met on the road north of Barnet. Among the King's commanders was his youngest brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester - eighteen years old, in his first battle, and facing the man who had trained him for it.

A Taste of Loyalty is a short film about that morning and the choice it forced. Warwick had been Richard's guardian and mentor; by 1471 he was his brother's enemy, and loyalty had become something to be paid for rather than assumed.

It was made with historians and with the reenactment community, using accurately weighted late fifteenth-century weapons and armour, so the fighting carries the weight and awkwardness of the real thing rather than the choreography of costume drama. It sets out to find the man behind the myth: who Richard was before he became king, and what shaped him.

The film is a proof of concept for a feature, Loyalty, which follows the same figure away from the Shakespearean version of him and towards the historical record.

A murder mystery unearths the untold story of Chinese miners in the Australian gold rush.

In the 1850s Australian gold rush, Europeans, Americans and Chinese all race to make their fortunes. Wei Shing, the charming and diplomatic headman of the Chinese camp, keeps a thousand diggers organised — while quietly enriching himself.

Everything shifts when a murdered European woman is found, her death seemingly linked to the Chinese camp. With tensions already high, Shing knows that blame falling on the Chinese could prove catastrophic.

As he scrambles to hide the connection and uncover the truth, Shing is drawn into a web of secrets involving a widowed newspaper owner, a young Indigenous tracker, and forces determined to seize control.

An ageing Shakespeare recites Sonnet 18, recalling an untold love between two Elizabethan men — a tender take on literature's most celebrated poem.

An intimate vertical short inspired by Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. Framed by an older narrator's reflection, the film imagines the enduring love between two Elizabethan men, bringing a queer perspective to one of literature's most celebrated sonnets and playwrights.

'The Fair Youth: Sonnet 18' imagines two Elizabethan men in love, not to rewrite history but to illuminate the lives and relationships that often go unseen within it. The film asks the audience to consider that queer love has always existed, even if it has not always been preserved in the historical record.

At just under two minutes, the hope was to create a brief but emotionally resonant interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated sonnets - one that honours the original text while inviting audiences to see it through a fresh lens.

A British intelligence officer must win over a captured German scientist in post-war London.

Set in a bomb-damaged London hotel after the Second World War, Close to the Enemy follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson. His final Army assignment: persuade Dieter, a captured German scientist, to develop jet engine technology for the RAF.

With the Cold War emerging, such expertise is vital to Britain. Callum uses unorthodox methods to win Dieter over, and an unlikely relationship forms amid the suspicions and shifting loyalties of a world still reeling from conflict.

Around them, a cast of intertwined characters — Callum's brother Victor, former official Harold, American Anglophile Rachel, and war-crimes investigator Kathy — work to rebuild lives marked by a war that touched them all.

After her father's death, sixteen-year-old Ottilie Faber must helm her family's global empire, defying patriarchal norms while navigating a high-stakes choice between two powerful suitors.

At the end of the 19th century, the carefree young life of Ottilie von Faber comes to an abrupt end. After the sudden death of her father Wilhelm, she becomes the sole heir and her grandfather Lothar Von Faber steers her into the family business, the famous pencil manufacturing Faber Corporation in Stein near Nuremberg.

It's extremely challenging for a young woman in a society and time dominated by men. Ottilie acquiesces, is eager to learn and shows talent, despite all odds.

She is a strong woman, far ahead of her time; but soon enough, two men compete for her hand - Alexander Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen and Philipp von Brand zu Neidstein, leaving Ottilie torn between her own feelings and the high expectations of her family.

A documentary retracing Leonardo da Vinci's steps across Renaissance Italy to ask a question the Louvre would rather not face: is the most famous painting in the world a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo at all?

In 1503 an unemployed painter in Florence agreed to paint the wife of a silk merchant, in return for help winning a far grander commission. Giorgio Vasari, writing three decades later, said Leonardo laboured over that portrait for four years and left it unfinished. The painting hanging in the Louvre is nothing of the kind: it is complete, and stylistically it belongs a decade later than the year it is supposed to have been begun.

This film follows Leonardo from the court of Milan to Venice, into Cesare Borgia's camp beside Machiavelli, and back to the city he had walked away from — and it takes seriously the possibility that both accounts are true. That there were two paintings. One a likeness of a young Florentine woman, begun in 1503 and handed over unfinished; the other begun years afterwards in Rome, under a Medici patron, of somebody else.

The evidence runs from a marginal note found in a Heidelberg library, scribbled in the margins of a book of Cicero's letters, to digital imaging techniques developed to authenticate Rembrandts and turned on a canvas that spent most of the twentieth century in a vault. And to a fine linen veil, invisible under the varnish until 2006, that Renaissance Florence reserved for women who were expecting or had recently given birth.

What emerges is less an art-historical whodunnit than a portrait of the painter. Leonardo was taken from his mother at five. Motherhood — its physical and psychological mystery — is the thread running through the anatomical drawings, the Virgin and Child, the Saint Anne, and finally the face that will not stop looking back at us.

A widow's impulsive romance in Tuscany sparks a clash of cultures, pride, and hidden motives, drawing everyone into a journey that transforms their loyalties and desires.

A young widow, Lilia Herriton, travels to Tuscany with her friend Caroline Abbott and unexpectedly falls in love with a much younger Italian man.

Her late husband's family, obsessed with propriety, try to intervene, but Lilia chooses to stay in Italy and start a new life. After unforseen circumstances, the Herriton family becomes determined to take control of her infant child, claiming it as their duty while privately caring only about their reputation.

Philip Herriton and Caroline return to Italy, where they confront cultural clashes, shifting loyalties, and their own growing admiration for the Italian way of life. As tensions rise between the English visitors, the passionate Italian father, and the rigid expectations of society, their mission becomes far more complicated than any of them expected—leading to consequences none of them could foresee.

Based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's poem 'An Essay on Criticism: For fools rush in where angels fear to tread'

A family in World War One and how their lives change when their two sons go to war.

A drama telling the true story of a family in World War One and the impact on their lives as their two sons go to war.

Tell Them of Us is a moving and unforgettable portrait of a Lincolnshire family during the First World War. It is both unique and universal. It is a tale of two brothers, William and Robert, and their sister Grace.

Told from the home front, it is based on an unpublished archive of letters, memoirs, photographs and artefacts from the Crowder family.

How does a man become Voltaire – the Giant of Thought, the Master of Blasphemy — whose struggles will give birth to the French Revolution?

How did Voltaire become who he was? One of the world's greatest thinkers, known for his wit, an advocate of freedom of speech and religion, whose writings shaped the course of the French Revolution.

Voltaire in Love is a four-part drama series that explores Voltaire's early life and evolution. It reveals aspects of the gifted philosopher's life that have receivedless attention: Voltaire the adventurer, lover, man of justice who had an ambiguous relationship with royalty.

In his permanent quest of questioning the status quo, he finds accomplices, loving women and friends, some of whom will not always be faithful. And he is dealt many blows including imprisonment and being exiled to England.

Voltaire in Love is a modern and timely series that depicts an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, a visionary, an influencer of his time. And still relevant today.

In 1950s West Germany, two friends confront a shifting world of American influence, testing their loyalties as tradition clashes with newfound freedom and desire.

In a small West German town of the early 1950s, American influence brings new freedoms and unsettling change. Two young women find their lives reshaped as tradition collides with opportunity, challenging everything they've known.

Marie and Erika, raised in very different households, respond in contrasting ways to the shifting world around them. Their friendship becomes a lens through which the town's tensions, hopes, and generational divides come sharply into focus.

As political, social, and religious pressures intensify, both women confront choices that test their identities and loyalties. Their intertwined journeys reveal how personal dreams can clash with the expectations of a community in transition.