BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced between eight to fifteen films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors.
Originally based in Mortimer Street, London. The company was founded as a wholly owned but independent film-making company by Mark Shivas as part of the Drama Department. David M. Thompson became its head in 1997.
A restructuring in 2007 integrated BBC Films into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and Thompson left to start his own film production company. BBC Film has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013. The company changed its name to BBC Film in 2020.
Eva Yates became head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.
Filmography 1990s +1990s productionsYear TitleNotes1990 Truly, Madly, Deeply Antonia and Jane with Miramax Films1991 Enchanted April Edward II The Reflecting Skin1992 Sarafina!1993 The Hawk The Snapper Much Ado About Nothing co-produced with American Playhouse Theatrical Films, Renaissance Films1994 Captives with Miramax Films & Distant Horizon The Hour of the Pig1995 I.D. Angus Cold Comfort Farm1996 Jude Small Faces Twelfth Night: Or What You Will Shine1997 Twenty Four Seven I Went Down My Son the Fanatic Love and Death on Long Island Mrs Dalloway Mrs Brown The Relic1998 Gods and Monsters Hard Rain A Simple Plan Black Dog The Governess Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1999 A Room for Romeo Brass Mansfield Park Man on the Moon RKO 281
2000s
+2000s productionsYear Title2000 Wonder Boys Wild About Harry Saltwater Maybe Baby Billy Elliot (with Working Title Films) Shadow of the Vampire (with Saturn Films) Isn't She Great Last Resort2001 Iris (with Miramax Films and Intermedia) Born Romantic About Adam The Claim Lara Croft: Tomb Raider2002 Anita and Me Dirty Pretty Things In This World The Heart of Me Morvern Callar The Gathering Storm2003 The Statement The Mother Masked and Anonymous Code 46 I Capture The Castle Deep Blue Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Kiss of Life Skagerrak2004 Bullet Boy Millions Red DustMy Summer of Love The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (with Company Pictures) Stage Beauty (with Qwerty Films and Tribeca Film) Trauma Undone (short) The Accidental Perfectionist2005 Opal Dream Imagine Me & You Mrs Henderson Presents A Cock and Bull Story Match Point Shooting Dogs (co-production with UK Film Council) Love + Hate The Mighty Celt The Undertaker (short)2006 Notes on a Scandal Starter for Ten Scoop Fast Food Nation The History Boys Confetti Miss Potter As You Like It (in association with HBO Films) Glastonbury Snow Cake Life and Lyrics Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart Shoot the Messenger2007 Four Last Songs Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features) Becoming Jane Earth (co-production with Disneynature) Grow Your Own Joe's Palace The Restraint of Beasts Capturing Mary2008 Revolutionary Road (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures) Death Defying Acts The Duchess Brideshead Revisited The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Other Boleyn Girl The Edge of Love The Meerkats Is Anybody There? Man On Wire (as BBC Storyville) Shifty Easy Virtue Into the Storm: Churchill at War2009 Nativity! The Men Who Stare at Goats Tormented Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel The Damned United (co-production with Columbia Pictures) In the Loop Bright Star (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Pathé, UK Film Council, and Screen Australia)The Boys Are Back (co-production with Miramax Films, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Tiger Aspect Pictures, and Screen Australia) An EducationFish Tank Creation Glorious 39
2010s +2010s productionsYear Title2010 The First Grader (co-production with National Geographic Entertainment, Videovision Entertainment, & UK Film Council) Made in Dagenham Tamara Drewe Edge of Darkness (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and Icon Productions) StreetDance 3D (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Vertigo Films, & British Film Institute) Freestyle (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Revolver Entertainment, Film London Microwave, B19 Media, and UK Film Council) Africa United2011The Awakening Brighton Rock West Is West Jane Eyre Coriolanus My Week with Marilyn Project Nim The Iron Lady Salmon Fishing in the Yemen We Need to Talk about Kevin One Life (as BBC Earth Films) The British Guide to Showing Off Ill Manors2012 Quartet Shadow Dancer Spike Island Blood Good Vibrations Great Expectations In the Dark Half A Running Jump StreetDance 2 Strawberry Fields (co-production with Soda Pictures, Film London Microwave, Kent County Council Film Office, Screen South, Met Film Post, and UK Film Council) Perfect Sense2013 Philomena Saving Mr. Banks (co-production with Walt Disney Pictures) Dom Hemingway Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie (as BBC Earth Films) Broken Exhibition Flying Blind (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Matador Pictures, Southwest Screen, Cinema Six, Regent Capital, The City of Bristol and Ignition Films) Borrowed Time (co-production with Film London Microwave, UK Film Council and Parkville Pictures) Big Men Ginger & Rosa Now Is Good London: The Modern Babylon (co-production with Cinedigm, British Film Institute and Nitrate Film) The Summit The Sea Kiss the Water (co-production with Virgil Films, Easy There Tiger, Slate Films, and Creative Scotland) The Challenger Disaster2014 A Little Chaos A Long Way Down The Invisible Woman What We Did on Our Holiday Enchanted Kingdom (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Reliance Entertainment, IM Global, & Evergreen Studios) Pride My Old Lady Lilting Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie2015 Far from the Madding Crowd The Falling Woman in Gold Suite Française Testament of Youth Mr. Holmes X+Y Bill Brooklyn The Lady in the Van Man Up London Road Being AP (co-production with Entertainment One, Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, and Moneyglass Films) The Face of an Angel Spooks: The Greater Good2016 David Brent: Life on the Road Florence Foster Jenkins Swallows and Amazons Denial My Scientology Movie A United Kingdom The Lovers and the Despot (as BBC Storyville) The Levelling Notes on Blindness I, Daniel Blake The Library Suicides (co-production with Soda Pictures, Edicis Films, S4C, Ffilm Cymru Wales and British Film Institute) The Lighthouse The Goob (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, and EMU Films) Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie2017 Viceroy's House City of Tiny Lights The Sense of an Ending Their Finest Lady Macbeth Victoria & Abdul Mindhorn Breathe Earth: One Amazing Day (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Goldcrest Films International & SMG Pictures) Apostasy Spaceship (co-production with Breaking Glass Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, Belly Productions, Parkville Pictures, and Trinity) Trophy (as BBC Storyville)2018 On Chesil Beach Yardie The Children Act The Happy Prince Out of Blue In Fabric Happy New Year, Colin Burstead Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami2019 Blue Story Dirty God Little Joe Stan & Ollie Sorry We Missed You The Aftermath The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind The Souvenir The White Crow Monsoon Judy Be Still My Beating Heart (co-production with Creative Scotland, Scottish Film Talent Network, & barry crerar) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin They Shall Not Grow Old Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
2020s +2020s productionsYear Title2020 Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Nest Surge His House Mogul Mowgli Misbehaviour The Roads Not Taken Ammonite Supernova Lynn + Lucy Aisha and Abhaya (co-production with Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Arts Council England, & Robin Saunders)2021 After Love The Mauritanian True Things Ear for Eye The Power of the Dog Pirates The Souvenir Part II The Phantom of the Open Cow Body of Water (co-production with Verve Pictures, Film London Microwave, British Film Institute, Lions Den Films, Bright Shadow Films, and Boudica Films) Here Before Herself The Year Earth Changed 9/11: Inside the President's War Room River Can't Get You Out of My Head (documentary series) People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan2022 Aisha Ali & Ava Benediction God's Creatures Aftersun Triangle of Sadness The Lost King Allelujah The Eternal Daughter The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (short) Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (documentary series)2023 Girl Blue Jean Medusa Deluxe Rye Lane Scrapper Club Zero Femme The Old Oak In Camera Silver Haze Sweet Sue Silent Roar Chuck Chuck Baby Tuesday Janet Planet Hoard One Life The End We Start From The Great Escaper The Iron Claw2024 The Outrun Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger Edge of Summer Bird On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Santosh September Says Lollipop Harvest The Salt Path On Falling The Severed Sun2025 Dreamers Christy Urchin My Father's Shadow Pillion Sentimental Value Ish Hamlet Straight Circle The Choral Palestine 36 The Son and the Sea Retreat2026Peaky Blinders: The Immortal ManThe Fall of Sir Douglas WeatherfordI See Buildings Fall Like LightningThe End of It
Upcoming
Chork Flesh Fonda Ghosts: The Possession of Button House Mission Pretend I'm Not Here The Entertainment System Is Down The Roots Manoeuvre
See also
BBC BBC Studios
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