Best BBC iPlayer Films & Series to Watch in the UK

26.2 to Life

This deeply moving film follows the maximum-security detainees training to run a marathon. It’s a troubling portrait of masculinity, but one which offers hope.

28 Days Later

28 days after a virus was accidentally unleashed from a research facility, a small group of survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected.

The A Word

The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they don't feel like every other family anymore.

Absolutely Fabulous

Edina, a career-minded woman with chronic alcoholism, drives her daughter Saffron crazy after Patsy, her best friend and drug addict, enters their lives.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

In an effort to escape a life of unappreciation, Mitzi enlists two other showgirls to form a travelling show to wow the unsuspecting Aussie Outback inhabitants.

The African Queen

During WWI, cranky steamboat captain Charlie Allnut is asked to ferry forthright missionary Rose back to civilisation. Along the way they will form an unlikely alliance.

Aftersun

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum.

The Age of Stupid

A man living in the devastated world of 2055, looking at footage from 2008 and asks: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Alien

A cargo spaceship intercepts a signal of unknown origin. When the crew investigates, they inadvertently bring a highly dangerous alien on board that picks them off one by one.

All About Eve

Margo, an established theatre actress, appoints Eve, an aspiring actress, as her personal assistant. However, Margo is unaware of Eve's intention to take over her career.

Amazing Grace

A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

American Fiction

Professor and writer Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison is told to write a novel that’s more ‘Black’. To his dismay, it is a huge success.

An Education

Jenny's life changes when David, a man twice her age, pursues her romantically. She then discovers that David isn't what he seems to be.

And Then There Were None

Ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host, and start to get killed one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

André Is an Idiot

André, who, despite receiving a terminal diagnosis, is determined to die with humour, curiosity and defiance.

Ant-Man

Armed with a super-suit, cat-burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Apocalypse Now

Captain Willard is sent to Cambodia on a dangerous mission to assassinate a renegade colonel who has won the trust of a local tribe.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Margaret moves to a new home from New York City. Faced with new social challenges and a quarrelling family, Margaret turns to God to voice her hang-ups and ask for help.

Around the World in 80 Days

Phileas Fogg, an adventurer, hopes to travel the entirety of the world and return to the starting point within a time period of merely 80 days

Ashes to Ashes

DCI Hunt has left Manchester to take on the 'southern nancys' of London where he once again acquires a time-travelling sidekick - this time with DI Drake.

Atomic People

First-hand accounts from surviving 'Hibakusha', the only people left to have survived a nuclear bomb, recall the destruction left in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Atonement

When Cecilia and Robbie are torn apart by a lie constructed by Cecilia's jealous younger sister, Briony, all three of them must deal with the consequences.

Attica

This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the need for reform 50 years later.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Tony Stark builds an AI system named Ultron with the help of Bruce Banner. When the sentient Ultron makes plans to wipe out the human race, the Avengers set out to stop him.