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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 744,138 | Gross: $326.11M
2. Professor T (2021– )
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.
Stars: Barney White, Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour, Emma Naomi
Votes: 5,590
3. Grantchester (2014–2025)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.
Stars: Robson Green, Tessa Peake-Jones, Al Weaver, Kacey Ainsworth
Votes: 17,262
4. The History Boys (2006)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson
Votes: 21,508 | Gross: $2.71M
5. The Vault (2021)
R | 118 min | Action, Thriller
Follows a genius engineering graduate who is interested in the Bank of Spain's safe.
Director: Jaume Balagueró | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Sam Riley, Liam Cunningham
Votes: 31,024
6. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two 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.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 66,053 | Gross: $58.97M
7. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,699 | Gross: $3.13M
8. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi
Votes: 62,350 | Gross: $3.87M
9. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris
Votes: 1,857
10. A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
Director: Morgan Matthews | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 30,371 | Gross: $0.14M
11. Bon Voyage (2003)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Germans move into the city.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Grégori Derangère
Votes: 5,138 | Gross: $2.35M
12. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
Votes: 23,566 | Gross: $7.12M
13. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,980 | Gross: $1.37M
14. Made in Dagenham (2010)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone
Votes: 16,089 | Gross: $1.09M
15. The Company (2007)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Romance
Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.
Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 4,972
16. Einstein and Eddington (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.
Director: Philip Martin | Stars: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Benjamin Uttley
Votes: 7,669
17. The War Lover (1962)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1943, while stationed in Britain, arrogant Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, but his recklessness is endangering everyone around him.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 2,131
18. The Devil's Chair (II) (2007)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device, a cross between an electric ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Mason | Stars: Andrew Howard, Pollyanna Rose, Olivia Hill, Nadja Brand
Votes: 3,224
19. Byron (2003 TV Movie)
147 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
Director: Julian Farino | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Oliver Milburn, Michael Elwyn, Jonny Lee Miller
Votes: 1,159
20. Stiff Upper Lips (1997)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Spoofs Merchant-Ivory films: Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales) tries to force Emily (Georgina Cates) to marry boring Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal) by taking her to Italy and India in hopes will forget about handsome George (Sean Pertwee).
Director: Gary Sinyor | Stars: David Artus, Kevin Furlong, Nicholas Selby, John Boswall
Votes: 1,157 | Gross: $0.07M
21. Singing the Blues in Red (1986)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music
A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner, Cristine Rose
Votes: 571
22. A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2002)
48 min | Documentary, Biography
A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother's birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and... See full summary »
Director: Jeroen Berkvens | Stars: Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gabrielle Drake, Rodney Drake
Votes: 753
23. The Spy Who Went Into the Cold (2013)
75 min | Documentary
Documentary on Kim Philby's career as an MI6 agent who spied for the Soviet Union throughout WWII and afterward, and his subsequent exile in the Moscow.
Director: George Carey | Stars: Dick Beeston, George Blake, Anthony Blunt, Winston Churchill
Votes: 194
24. Robinson in Space (1997)
82 min | Documentary
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield
Votes: 391
25. Scholastic England (1948)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This Traveltalks entry visits British institutions of higher learning at Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton.
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 104
26. Forgotten Allies: The Search for Burma's Lost Heroes (2019 TV Special)
46 min | History
In the darkest hours of World War II, thousands of men from Burma gave their lives fighting a brutal war for Britain against the Japanese, and to carry out the most successful guerrilla ... See full summary »
Directors: Alex Bescoby, Maxwell Jones | Stars: Sally Mclean, Peter Mitchell, Duncan Gilmour, Philip Davies
27. The Cambridge Rapist (2010 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, History
During the 1970's one man horrified the town of Cambridge. The Rapist eluded the authorities as the attacks rose. This Documentary re-creates the events and interviews those that were there.
Director: Stuart Pender | Stars: Susan Winder, Neil Bell, Henry Douthwaite, Katie-Anna Whiting
Votes: 19
28. Black Box (I) (2006)
29 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A heartwarming tale of people and their recycling, it's not easy being green.
Director: Emily Blickem | Stars: Holly Blickem, Christopher Dane, Emma Deakin, Peter Halpin
30. Jesus Green Pool (2005)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A poetic film that follows a season of an unusual open air swimming pool in Cambridge, England, through the work of artists who are inspired by it. Dormant over the winter, in the spring ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Cox
31. Dan: 02/11/08 (2009)
8 min | Short, Adventure
Rachael is a young deaf girl living a lonely and isolated life, no one will sympathize with her or attempt to make friends/communicate with her and in her isolation she turns to her imagination.
Director: Antony Kwok | Stars: Molly Keating, Dan Richards
Votes: 9
32. Strawberry Fair (1994)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about Cambridge's alternative culture Strawberry Fair.
Director: Adam Clitheroe
33. Means to an End (2005 Video)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Pete and Jasper are two horror-crazed special effects artists with big aspirations and a unique philosophy about their beloved genre: Horror needs special effects that are REAL. When they ... See full summary »
Directors: Jake Hamilton, Paul Solet | Stars: Morgan Berns, Neil Clayman, Jake Hamilton, Mike McCrae
Votes: 35
34. The Questioning City (1959)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963. From British Pathé TV's Arts Collection.
Director: Eric Fullilove | Star: Michael Redgrave
35. Children of the Wind (1997)
Documentary, Short, Sport
Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Gold explored the world of sailplane gliding in England. Footage from the glider airfield in Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia is intercut with interviews with Pat Harris, chairman of the Cambridge Gliding Club.
Director: Jeffrey Gold | Stars: Pat Harris, Arkady Izyumov, Stephen Madle, Sigfrid Neumann
36.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
(2001)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
"The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" (video release title) tells the full bizarre, tragic, but also celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd. With contributions from... See full summary »
Director: John Edginton | Stars: Kirsty Wark, Syd Barrett, Joe Boyd, Graham Coxon
Votes: 563
37.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
The Hitch-Hiker
(1980)
TV-14 | 26 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
American author Paul Duveen gives a mysterious Irishman a lift, and in return receives a series of boons and banes.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Roald Dahl, Rod Taylor, Cyril Cusack, John Forgeham
Votes: 340
38.
They Came from Outer Space (1990–1991)
Episode:
Malibu or Bust!
(1990)
60 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Bo and Abe's parents are sending them to University in England, but they end up on the west coast of the United States. To complicate matters, Bo and Abe are from another planet and being hunted by the Air Force.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Dean Cameron, Stuart Fratkin, Allan Royal, Christopher Carroll
39.
Mystery!: Campion (1989–1990)
Episode:
Police at the Funeral: Part 2
(1989)
Not Rated | 53 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Campion is convinced that the murderer is part of the Faraday household.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Mary Morris
Votes: 105
40.
Antiques Road Trip (2010– )
Episode:
Episode #20.25
(2020)
44 min | Reality-TV
There's a 1970s theme for Raj and Natasha's final auction in Cambridge. Before then the bells are ringing for Raj in Loughborough while Natasha learns about a Nottingham bare-knuckle boxing legend.
Directors: Ben Hewish, Sam Miles | Stars: Tim Wonnacott, Raj Bisram, Natasha Raskin Sharp
41.
Monkman and Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain (2018–2020)
Episode:
Episode #2.3
(2020)
59 min | Comedy
The final instalment sees the duo visit the birthplaces of their favourite inventions between 1850 and 1900, the height of the Victorian era, when British progress began to impact our everyday lives.
Directors: Joseph Cunningham, Samuel Palmer | Stars: Simon Callow, Eric Monkman, Bobby Seagull
42.
Professor T (2021– )
Episode:
The Anatomy of a Memory
(2021)
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Diana Tyson was violently attacked on the university campus. DI Lisa Donckers suspects that the assault is very similar to one that occurred years beforehand, having been a previous student of Professor T's, she thinks he can help.
Director: Dries Vos | Stars: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Sarah Woodward
Votes: 494
43.
Secret Spenders (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2021)
23 min | Reality-TV
In Cambridge, mum-of-two Rohini desperately wants to find out why there's nothing left in the family's bank account. Secret filming exposes husband Alex's extravagant spending.
Directors: James Boakes, Gerard McHugh | Stars: Anita Rani, Emmanuel Asuquo, Anna Whitehouse
44.
Travel Dares (2018–2019)
Episode:
Riding 6-Foot Bikes + Punting in London
(2019)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Nico and Caroline head to London to try dares off the beaten path. Caroline challenges Nico to learn how to ride old-fashioned penny-farthing bicycles. Then, Nico takes Caroline to ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Aghajanian, Nico Reyes, Neil Laughton, Fryderyk Lukasik
45.
The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Three Moosketeers: Parts 3-4
(1961)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Three Moosketeers" Part 3, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Enchanted Fly", Peabody's Improbable History "Sir Isaac Newton", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Three Moosketeers" Part 4.
Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried
Votes: 28
46.
The Stuarts (2014)
Episode:
And I Will Make Them One Nation
(2014)
59 min | Documentary, History
In this first episode, Clare Jackson looks at James VI and I's attempts to unite Scotland and England under the umbrella of his crown and persuade his subjects to feel more 'British'.
Stars: Clare Jackson, Katy Mair, Edward Montgomery, Adrian Popescu
Votes: 11
47.
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011– )
Episode:
Episode #4.4
(2014)
Reality-TV
Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford travel around the south of England.
Director: Craig Duncan | Stars: Nick Hewer, Andy Jones, Margaret Mountford, Philip Serrell
48.
The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode:
Moosylvania Saved: Parts 1-2
(1963)
TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Moosylvania Saved" Part 1 of 4, Aesop and Son "The French Poodle and the Alley Cat", Peabody's Improbable History "Sir Isaac Newton", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Moosylvania Saved" Part 2 of 4.
Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried
Votes: 17
49.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
The Scorpion and the Frog
(2017)
TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The Winchesters agree to steal a trunk belonging to a demon in exchange for a spell they can use to find Jack.
Director: Robert Singer | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, David Cubitt, Christie Burke
Votes: 2,848
50.
Great British Railway Journeys (2010– )
Episode:
Cromer to Cambridge
(2018)
29 min | Documentary
Michael follows in the footsteps of King Edward VII, from a grand estate in Norfolk to a bivouac on Brownsea Island. He learns the ropes aboard a wherry, tap dances on Cromer Pier and investigates the student days of E.M. Forster.
Director: Joseph Cunningham | Star: Michael Portillo
Votes: 10