Roy Battersby Movies
- 2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today02020HD
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...
- 1972
Better Than the Movies
Better Than the Movies01972HD
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
- 1993
Olly's Prison
Olly's Prison91993HD
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not...
- 1984
Winter Flight
Winter Flight101984HD
As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
- 1985
Mr. Love
Mr. Love5.21985HD
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
- 1986
King of the Ghetto
King of the Ghetto61986HD
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end
- 1970
The Body
The Body4.51970HD
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators,...
- 2005
Red Mercury
Red Mercury42005HD
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The...
- 1997
The Moth
The Moth6.71997HD
This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's...
- 1989
The Act
The Act01989HD
Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special...
- 1972
Right to Work March
Right to Work March01972HD
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
- 1973
The Operation
The Operation01973HD
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
- 1970
Roll On Four O'Clock
Roll On Four O'Clock61970HD
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform...
- 1977
The Palestinian
The Palestinian101977HD
A powerful Palestinian documentary starring Vanessa Redgrave about the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its role in Lebanon, as well as...
- 1990
Yellowbacks
Yellowbacks01990HD
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question...
- 1974
Leeds United!
Leeds United!01974HD
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose...
- 2008
Greys Inbetween
Greys Inbetween02008HD
A day in the life of Jane Grey, a struggling Black actress living in London's hard, beautiful city, grappling with unemployment. Her affair with a...
- 1991
The Black Candle
The Black Candle4.81991HD
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her...
- 1969
Some Women
Some Women01969HD
A film about four women who have been in prison.
- 1999
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Doomwatch: Winter Angel7.51999HD
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear...