Andrew Sachs

A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)

A puerile sci-fi romance in which a scientist is transported into a parallel world. The year is the same, but in his new world, Vietnam hasn't happened, nor the conquest of Everest, nor the surgery of heart transplants. Making little of this premise, the film plunges forthwith into a moony romance where his lady of the camellias dies of a heart condition, and he races off in search of her counterpart in the other world to save her from a similar fate. (timeout.com)

Going Postal is the story of arch-swindler Moist Von Lipwig (Richard Coyle) and the beautiful, vengeful Adora Belle Dearheart (Claire Foy). A life long traveling con-artist, Lipwig's crimes finally catch up with him in Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Disc. Faced with death by hanging, Lipwig is spared by the city's ruler Lord Vetinari (Charles Dance), who sees him as the perfect man for the role of Postmaster in the decrepit Ankh-Morpork post office.

A biographical study of Albert Einstein, with not only an analysis of his place in modern physics and in our understanding of the universe, but an analysis (through his and his wife's letters) of Einstein as a person. Part of the film is taken from archival material, part is a recreation with Einstein's thoughts presented by an actor. Animations explain basics of his theory of relativity, mass-energy equivalence, and the nature of light. (imdb)

Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with this tale of four aging opera singers (Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins). (tiff.net)

Documentary series featuring stories of human interest during 1940, exploring the courage and resilience of the human spirit during the Battle of Britain period. People from all over the world who joined the RAF, describe what it was like to live through this fundamental conflict. Female pilots supplying aircraft from factories tell of their experiences, along with plotters from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Civilians who refused to give in despite the Blitz.

BAFTA winning programme following John Harvey-Jones Visiting and advising small and often struggling UK businesses.

Docu-drama series combining factual accounts with dramatic reconstructions to tell how Ancient Egypt's treasures were unearthed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A British secret agent takes part in a secret operation in occupied France during the Second World War.

Tells the stories of keeping a working man's club open, an under achieving bingo worker, a turf war between two ice cream men, a look behind the scenes at the MEN Arena, meet Britain's oldest paper boy and follows Talent Trek winner Mark Park after going solo. (imdb)

An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians. (imdb)

Gothic adaptation that emphasizes the horror and degradation rather than the mystery - there is little mystery about the murderer's identity by half way through.

Natural history series based on the Dorling Kindersley children's books. (imdb)

When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients. Of course, Dr. Todd is no prude, and it isn't long before he's joining in on all the lusty, after-hours fun.