Movies: Randal Herley

Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the aci...

Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India, it takes on the international population "establishment", challenging the entrenched view that overp...

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her fri...

An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a relationship between a young couple and two interior designers....

A woman searches for her children, who have been abducted by her ex-husband, a member of the German 'Red Liberation Front'....

A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested....

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?...