Movies: Franc Roddam

They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2....

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of T...

One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back.......

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria....

Documentary drama based on a true story, highlighting the difficulties faced by a young deaf woman, Sandra, whose attempts to use sign language are prevented in a time when deaf people were encouraged to lip read and speak. Unable to communicate adeq...

Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect Victorian woman....

1975 documentary about 11-year-old serial arsonist Michael 'Mini' Cooper, followed by Cooper and the film's director Franc Roddam in conversation with Alan Yentob in 2013....

Martin Scorsese and other contemporary filmmakers reveal the impact The Third Man had on their careers and why the film is still so relevant today....

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there....

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene....

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young anti-war demonstrator contemplating her pregnancy and recalling her childhood as she prepares to give birth....

Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way toward...

Michael 'Mini' Cooper is a child who cannot stop setting fire to things. The young arsonist has been deemed not safe to be out in society, and the hunt is on for a suitable institution....

Episode of the BBC TV series focusing on Franc Roddam's 1979 film "Quadrophenia."...