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BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, Stage Beauty, A Cock and Bull Story, Nativity! and Match Point.

BBC Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Christine Langan is Head of BBC Films, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.

Recent titles include Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham, Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe, Debs Gardner-Paterson’s Africa United, Max and Dania’s StreetDance, which was Britain’s first-ever 3-D movie.

Up until 2007, BBC Films was based in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House, while still under the full control of the BBC. A re-structuring of the division integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into Television Centre, and its head David M. Thompson left to start his own film production company.

Productions

2012

• CHERUB:The Recruit
• The Girl Who Played with Fire (co-production with Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media and Yellow Bird Films)

2011

• The Awakening
• Brighton Rock
• West Is West
• Jane Eyre
• Coriolanus
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (co-production with Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Relativity Media, and Yellow Bird Films)
• My Week with Marilyn
• Project Nim
• Perfect Sense
• We Need to Talk about Kevin

2010

• Made in Dagenham
• Tamara Drewe
• Edge of Darkness (co-production with Warner Bros. and Icon Productions)
• StreetDance 3D (Co-Production with Vertigo Films)

2009

• 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 Film Finance Corporation Australia, Pathé, Warner Bros., UK Film Council, and Screen Australia)
• The Boys Are Back (co-production with Film Finance Corporation Australia, Tiger Aspect Pictures, Miramax Films, and Screen Australia)
• An Education

2008

• A Number
• Churchill at War
• Einstein and Eddington
• Miss Austen Regrets
• My Zinc Bed
• The Restraint of Beasts
• Revolutionary Road (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
• Death Defying Acts
• The Duchess
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• The Other Boleyn Girl[1]
• The Edge of Love
• The Meerkats
• Man on Wire
• The Children

2007

• Joe's Palace
• The Restraint of Beasts
• Four Last Songs
• The First Grader
• Capturing Mary
• Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features)
• Becoming Jane

2006

• Notes on a Scandal
• The State Within (TV miniseries: BBC America/BBC Two)
• Starter for Ten
• Scoop
• Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
• Fast Food Nation (US 2006/UK 2007)
• Confetti
• Shoot the Messenger
• Miss Potter

2005

• The Undertaker
• Opal Dream
• Imagine Me & You
• Mrs Henderson Presents
• A Cock and Bull Story
• Match Point
• Shooting Dogs
• Love + Hate
• Library Majnu

2004

• Undone
• The Accidental Perfectionist
• Bullet Boy
• Millions
• Red Dust
• My Summer of Love
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (with Company Pictures)
• Stage Beauty (with Qwerty Films and Tribeca)
• Trauma

2003

• The Statement
• Kiss of Life
• The Mother
• Skagerrak
• Masked and Anonymous
• Giustizia nel tempo di guerra
• Code 46

2001

• Iris (with Miramax Films and Intermedia Films)

2000

• Wild About Harry
• Saltwater
• Maybe Baby
• Billy Elliot (with Working Title Films)
• Shadow of the Vampire (with Saturn Films)
• Magnificent Monuments

pre-1999

• 1997 – I Went Down
• 1996 – Jude
• 1996 – Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
• 1994 – Captives (co-production with Distant Horizon & Miramax Films)
• 1994 – ID

See also

• BBC

External links

• BBC Films at BBC Online
• BBC Film Network, the BBC's online showcase for new British filmmaking