Bbc Movies Bucket List

Attenborough at ninety-seven, across coasts, deserts and freshwater, with people in the frame this time.

Attenborough's first ocean series, from the tidal shallows to the abyssal plain.

The iguana versus the racer snakes; the sequel with drones and better cameras.

An octopus that disguises itself with shells and the plastic that changed policy.

Attenborough's eleven habitats in high definition; the snow leopard and the birds of paradise.

Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney's novel in twelve half-hours.

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.

Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.

The Ministry of Silly Walks, the Dead Parrot and the giant foot; 45 episodes from 1969.

Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.

The Shelby gang in 1920s Birmingham with razor blades in their caps; Cillian Murphy.

Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to the camera through grief and a hot priest; two perfect seasons.

Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.

Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".

Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.

A time-travelling alien in a police box since 1963; start with the 2005 revival.

Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.

Benedict Cumberbatch in modern London; the Reichenbach fall and the internet.

David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.