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The tenth volume in a series which looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity. This volume features six programmes: The Wa Shan Guesthouse The...
Investigates the literature and legends of the Trojan War to determine whether Homer’s tale was fact or myth. Filmed in Greece, Turkey and Berlin. Michael Wood narrates. Originally broadcast in 1985 as 6...
Series on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, combining reconstructions, archive footage and documentary evidence to focuson the turbulent relationship between communist Russia and the West. In five...
Shows Veronica Sherbourne’s methods in use in a movement session for children and parents at a primary school in a ‘social priority’ area of Bristol. Ms Sherbourne explains that the purpose of the...
A compilation from the unique collection of the North West Film Archive containing films of the region. Shows 1) a children’s outing from Altringcham to Mobberley (1909); 2) the London to Manchester ariel...
A portrait of the National Gallery, London, at the time of the opening of the new wing. Interweaves the comments of curators, conservators, trustees, artists, writers, art critics and the public with...
A recently discovered live recording of the Bolshoi stars Nina Timofeyeva and Mikhail Lavrosky. Nina Timofeyeva first trained and performed at the Kirov Ballet, and then entered the Bolshoi Company in 1961,...
A dramatisation of Virgil’s epic poem ‘The Aeneid’, translated by Cecil Day-Lewis and adapted by Tom Holland. Tells the story of the legendary origin of the Roman Empire through the experiences of the...
A compilation of ten archive films about traditions, events, people and places of north-west England from 1910 to 1955. Contents: Sir Stanley Matthews and his ‘magic feet’ - how Stanley Matthews’...
A drama-documentary series on the lives of ten extraordinary women told through their writings, which offer a woman’s view of history. 1 (director Philippa Lowthorpe): Anne Lister was born in 1791 and...
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