BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
William Shatner, with tongue in cheek, hosts this documentary that revisits the treasure hunts undertaken by brothers Marty and Rick Lagina on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. If Shakespeare’s plays were in fact...
Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
US television romantic fantasy drama series consisting of several different stories each week played out against a common background - a remote island resort, where each visitor could have one life-long...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...
US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...
Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...
Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Radio broadcast of Richard Henry Walthew’s (1872-1951) operetta in one act adapted for broadcasting and produced by performed by the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor John Ansell. Libretto by R. H. U....
Animated feature film inspired by The Tempest, directed and animated by Per Ahlin. A children’s film about the evils of industrial capitalism with a strong ecological message. The tropical paradise island...
Learning on Screen