På universitetet i Oxford i 1925 bliver Charles Ryder ven med den unge, excentriske aristokrat Sebastian, søn af lord og lady Marchmain. Charles inviteres hjem til familiens storslåede gods, Brideshead, og snart er han og Sebastian uadskillelige. Charles forelsker sig i Sebastian's søster, Julia, men noget truer med at komme imellem dem. Nemlig familien Marchmain's stærke katolske tro.
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
Matematiske symboler og kryptiske koder følger en serie af bestialske mord på universitetet i Oxford. En amerikansk udviklingsstudent går sammen med en aldrende professor ind i opklaringsarbejdet. Men sandheden kan blive farlig for dem begge.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Efter at Stan og Ollie i vanlig stil har forpurret endnu et job, overvejer de at få sig en rigtig uddannelse. I samme øjeblik stormer en bankrøver ud foran dem og glider i Stans bananskræl. Af bar taknemlighed giver bankdirektøren Stan og Ollie et legat til universitetet i Oxford. Men de snobbede studerende spiller parret et puds, som bevirker, at Stan får et gok i nødden og tror, han er engelsk lord.
A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.
En uregerlig klasse af begavede og charmerende teenagedrenge bliver undervist af to excentriske og innovative lærere, mens deres rektor presser på for, at de alle skal blive optaget på Oxford eller Cambridge.
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
This MGM Traveltalk short focuses on the history of England's colleges in Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton and the towns that surround the campuses.
1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.
When a dying theater’s last hope for business suddenly goes from a murder mystery show to an actual murder mystery, the cast must play it off in order to save their jobs!
Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new around the capital.
BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh examines the extraordinary ambition behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab. Intended as a vaccine for the world, did politics get in its way?