Anthony Bate Movies

Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

A play about bullying, asking whether anything can actually be done about it. A gang of boys engage David in a game of 'coins against the wall' every...

Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a...

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a...

A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a...

A Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and...

A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.

Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the...