Oxbridge in films / on TV

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Oxford

• "Lost"
• The History Boys - 2006 film based on an Alan Bennett play, featuring Oxford and Cambridge. See the wikipedia article
• Inspector Morse TV detective series filmed and set in and around Oxford
• Lewis TV detective drama set in Oxford-sequel to Inspector Morse
• Stand Up Nigel Barton 1965 Alan Potter TV play about working class lad at Oxford
• True Blue - A film based on a book by Dan Topolski that recalls the events up to and including the 1987 Oxford Boat Club Mutiny and Oxford-Cambridge Boatrace
• "Blue Blood" - a documentary film following the paths of five students from Oxford University as they try to make it onto the Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club Varsity squad
• Oxford Murders - Thriller starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt about a series of murders in the city of Oxford
• Golden Compass - High profile film based on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights - the first part of the film is based in the fictional Jordan College, Oxford
• Brideshead Revisited - 1981 British television serial classic based on the relationship between two undergraduates, also remade as a film in 2008. Wikipedia.
• A Yank at Oxford -1938 film with Robert Taylor and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Oxford Blues - a 1984 film about an American heartie in Oxford-remake of A Yank at Oxford
• A Chump at Oxford - 1940 Laurel and Hardy send-up of A Yank at Oxford
• Gaudy Night -1987 TV adaptation of Dorothy L Sayers murder mystery set in Shrewsbury College based on Somerville which Sayers attended
• Heavens Gate -1980 Western with Oxford locations standing in for Harvard
• Another Country- 1984 film starring Rupert Everett, about Guy Burgess at Eton. Features Bodleian, Brasenose, and Brasenose Lane.
• "Young Sherlock Holmes" - 1985 film produced by Steven Speilberg and written by Chris Columbus (who later directed three of the Harry Potter films). The outside of the entrance to Brasenose College was used.
• "Shadowlands" - 1985 TV play starring Joss Ackland and 1993 film starring Anthony Hopkins, records the life of C. S. Lewis
• Harry Potter - The Harry Potter series features a variety of different buildings from across the university, including Christ Church, Brasenose and Divinity Schools.
• The Saint - Starring Val Kilmer
• "Trinity" - ITV Drama based on both Oxford and Cambridge University.
• "An Education" - 2009 coming-of-age drama film starring Carey Mulligan

Cambridge

• "The Glittering Prizes"... a 1976 BBC drama series based on Frederick Raphael's book. Available on DVD & VHS. Not to be confused with Simple Minds' 1992 album of the same name.
• "Eskimo Day"- Film about application to Queens' college. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116230/
• Cambridge Spies - 2003 4 part BBC TV Drama about the lives of the Cambridge Four (spies). Brilliant. Available on DVD. See Youtube clip: don't you want to smash it all up?, Youtube clip: May ball
• Porterhouse Blue - 1987 satirical TV series about a ficticious Cambridge College called Porterhouse.

See The wikipedia article. There are currently (Dec 09) some episodes available to view on 4OD. Available on DVD. The sequel is called Grantchester Grind (wikipedia article)

• The Student Prince - TV drama film about a bodyguard who protects a member of royalty attending Cambridge university.
• Maurice - 1987. Film starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves, based on the novel by E. M. Forster. The first part of the film is set at Cambridge in 1909, and focuses on the relationship between two undergraduates. Wikipedia
• "Trinity" - ITV Drama based on both Oxford and Cambridge University.
• The History Boys - 2006 film based on an Alan Bennett play, featuring Oxford and Cambridge.
• Chariots of Fire - 1981 film featuring race around Trinity Great Court