Movies: John Hurt

An affectionate and entertaining look at our nation's obsession with cinema from the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the picture palace, to the modern multiplexes and beyond. A celebration of Norfolk-area cinemas past and prese...

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant....

When Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as Labour prime minister resigned in 1976, most assumed there was a scandalous explanation. Eventually, rumours began to surface that powerful sections of the Establishment. This eye-opening drama documentary can ...

In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions)....

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow motion; an industrial drill bores into a huge block of rock; the word 'AIDS' is chiselled into the poli...

Pixel Veil presents “The Alchemist’s Letter,” a richly inventive and visually stunning dark fairly tale. When Veridian, an estranged young man, receives his late alchemist father Nicolas’ inheritance (voice of Academy Award® nominated John Hurt), he ...

The actor of John Merrick answers questions about the work on "The Elephant Man"...

This enchanted tale is based on "One Thousand and One Nights" where a young rogue receives wishes from a genie and wins The Sultan's daughter....

An elderly widower sets in motion series of events to veil his disappearance from a nursing home. After gathering necessities he heads to the local pier where a beloved companion awaits him, ready for their last great journey....

This 54 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the 1600's through the impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on July 16-22, 1994. Computer animations and informa...