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A three-part documentary, transmitted to mark the 50th anniversary of the world premiere of John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’, celebrating the life and works of one of the most influential British...
Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...
All 17 episodes of Tony Palmer’s series, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The series encompasses ragtime, blues, jazz, vaudeville, musicals, folk,...
In WHY MEN WEAR FROCKS Grayson explores his compulsion to dress as a woman, talking candidly about his own experiences and how he reconciles this aspect of his character with his roles as artist, husband and...
A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...
The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...
Documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a collective of video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and went out to document the world. In those days, there were...
Conventional history says that civilisation started 5000 years ago with the Egyptians. This series of three programmes, presented by anthropologist Richard Rudgley, surveys the 2 million years of prehistory...
The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...
In 1976 Elizabeth Grace began a documentary portrait of her daughte Lily, who was born with Down’s syndrome. Lily lived with her family in a small California town and attended local schools. She became a...
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