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- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRichard ChamberlainFaye DunawayPatrick MacneeThe love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.*Edward VIII (1936)
Richard Chamberlain - DirectorAlan BridgesStarsBernard ArchardBarbara AtkinsonMaxine AudleyUnable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.*Edward VIII (1936)
Peter Barkworth - DirectorHerbert WiseStarsRichard BurtonVirginia McKennaAngharad ReesThe story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.*Edward VIII (1936)
Ian Ogilvy - StarsEdward FoxCynthia HarrisDavid WallerThe events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.*Edward VIII (1936)
Edward Fox
*George VI (1936-1952)
Andrew Ray - DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.*Edward VIII (1936)
David Yelland - DirectorClive DonnerStarsRobert WagnerTeri GarrHorst JansonIn 1940, two Americans, Joe Jackson and Hannah Winter, attempt to thwart a plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor during a visit to Windsor.*Edward VIII (1936)
John Standing - DirectorCharles JarrottStarsAnthony AndrewsJane SeymourOlivia de HavillandThe love story between American divorcee Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, that ended in his abdication for the woman he loved.*Edward VIII (1936)
Anthony Andrews - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsStefanie PowersClaire BloomPeter BowlesThe singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer - is depicted. Raised by her father in colonial East Africa, Beryl hunted with the Maasai, bred thoroughbred horses, romanced Denys Finch-Hatton and defied constraining social rules. Based upon her own memoir 'West With the Night'.*Edward VIII (1936)
Peter Sands - DirectorHarvey HartStarsArmand AssanteCatherine Mary StewartMariette HartleySir Harry Oakes is a wealthy magnate, living amongst the British aristocrats who have made their home in the Bahamas just prior to World War II. Their small community is one of privilege and status and when Sir Harry's beloved daughter marries a handsome but penniless gigolo, Alfred De Marigny, Sir Harry is outraged by the union. But before Sir Harry can break up the marriage he is brutally and viciously murdered and his son-in-law is the prime suspect. Nothing is as it appears and Sir Harry's death soon points towards intrigue and deception on an international scale.*Edward VIII (1936)
Andrew Ray - DirectorEduardo GeadaStarsAnthony StoryMargarida ReisJennifer L. HamiltonLisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.*Edward VIII (1936)
Jonathan Weightman - StarsGillian BargeNicholas JonesSimon Russell BealeAnthony Powell's twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatized for television.*Edward VIII (1936)
William Boyde - DirectorGiles FosterStarsJames WilbyAlan BatesEileen AtkinsA chronicle of the life of George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.*Edward VIII (1936)
Charles Edwards
*George VI (1936-1952)
James Wilby
*Elizabeth II (1952-)
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh - StarsTom HollanderToby StephensRupert Penry-JonesThe true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.*Edward VIII (1936)
Julian Firth
*George VI (1936-1952)
Anthony Andrews - DirectorDavid MooreStarsJoely RichardsonDavid WestheadLisa KayIn 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world. Wallis and Edward is an attempt to portray the romantic aspects of the story from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.*Edward VIII (1936)
Stephen Campbell Moore
*George VI (1936-1952)
Bill Champion - DirectorTom HooperStarsColin FirthGeoffrey RushHelena Bonham CarterThe story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.*Edward VIII (1936)
Guy Pearce - StarsJim BroadbentMatthew MacfadyenConor NealonA novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.*Edward VIII (1936)
Tom Hollander - CreatorPeter MorganStarsClaire FoyOlivia ColmanImelda StauntonFollows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.*Edward VIII (1936)
Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
*George VI (1936-1952)
Jared Harris
*Elizabeth II (1952-)
Claire Foy, Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton - DirectorAlan GibsonStarsTimothy WestEric PorterArthur HillThe complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.*George VI (1936-1952)
Lyndon Brook - StarsNicol WilliamsonJanet SuzmanIan RichardsonThe Story of the last viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten*George VI (1936-1952)
Owen Holder - DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckJames RemarTimothy BottomsA dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.*George VI (1936-1952)
Mick Rose - DirectorPeter RichardsonStarsMiranda RichardsonAntony SherChristian SlaterIn this irreverent parody, the British court and war government consist mainly of idiots and/or traitors. Hitler moves into Buckingham palace and plans to marry into the Windsors. A US Army officer claims the cigar-smoking iconic PM was an actor, Ray Bubbles, impersonating his own father, USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill, a genius spy who stole an enigma code machine and almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for Britain.*George VI (1936-1952)
Harry Enfield - DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsBrendan GleesonClive MantleAdrian ScarboroughContinuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.*George VI (1936-1952)
Iain Glen - DirectorTom HooperStarsColin FirthGeoffrey RushHelena Bonham CarterThe story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.*George VI (1936-1952)
Colin Firth - DirectorRoger MichellStarsBill MurrayLaura LinneyOlivia WilliamsThe story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.*George VI (1936-1952)
Samuel West - DirectorJulian JarroldStarsSarah GadonBel PowleyEmily WatsonOn V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.*George VI (1936-1952)
Rupert Everett