David M. Thompson Movies

Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been...

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes...

A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the development of the theme of the dispersion of light by...

Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast.

Drama about a woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store who becomes seduced by the opulent lives of her clients, with...

Five black men in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What...

The second part of a BBC documentary on the latter half of the career of French director Jean Renoir.

A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

BBC producer/director David Thompson follows a group of admirers of the film A Canterbury Tale (1944) on their annual location walk in 2005. As this...

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly...

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are...