Movies: Anvil Films

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern m...

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist....

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America....

An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and ...

A retired detective is pulled back into the action by his former partner, they uncover a hidden underworld of sex, drugs and murder in the wealthy community controlled by kingpin Harvey Stride, and his femme fatale enforcer....

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951....

A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems....

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life....

A BAFTA award nominated film dramatising how one firm and its employees faced the inevitable changes caused by automation and made the best of the situation....

A docu-almanac about British sports personalities....

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time. There is magic here; skysweeping hillsides and weirdly weathered rocks; Wensleydale cheese; ruined abbe...

A look at the life of the famous Scottish writer, commemorating the bicentenary of his birth....

Folk traditions of the Scottish Highlands....

Kids help around the farm on the South Devon coast....