Reviews A-Z

The War Game (1965)

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The War of Darkie Pilbeam (1976)

For most families the 1940s consisted of air-raid shelters, the sound of ack-ack and rationing. Some people profiteered - people like Darkie Pilbeam.

The War of the Worlds (2019)

"Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

War on Crime (1951)

One of the first crime series on British television and the forerunner to today's police procedural dramas.

Warehouse 13 (2009)

The final shot of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - in which the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is revealed as just one among thousands of crates in a huge hangarlike building - is basically the premise of Warehouse 13.

Warrior Nun (2020)

When an orphaned teen wakes up in a morgue she discovers that a divine artefact has been embedded in her back. The powers it gives her means that she is now the Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns

The Watch (2020)

Fantasy police procedural inspired by the Discworld series. Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized

Watching (1987)

A young couple, who at first appear to be completely mis-matched, have an on-off relationship in this hit sitcom that ran for seven series