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Sir John Betjeman takes an unashamedly nostalgic journey through his earliest memories, in a classic television documentary based on his autobiography. He revisits scenes of his childhood including his prep...
Film dramatisation by Dennis Potter of the life of eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of ‘animal magnetism’. After...
Ian McShane plays the 19th century statesman and Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in this four-part ITV mini-series centred around his life.
A compilation of four documentaries on Mahatma Gandhi. The individual titles are: BIOGRAPHY (CBS): GANDHI (1961) - a primer presented by Mike Wallace; PERSPECTIVE ON GREATNESS: MAHATMA - THE GREAT SOUL...
CD ROM providing a visual and educational insight into Shakespeare’s life in Elizabethan England. Illustrated with photographs of buildings (aerial and ground shots) in and around Stratford-upon-Avon with...
Three documentaries on Emperor Hirohito who ruled Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. His reign was the longest of any historical Japanese emperor, and he oversaw many significant changes...
A disarmingly shameless French hommage to Shakespeare in Love, Laurent Tirard’s elegant and witty seventeenth-century comedy constructs a similar romantic contrivance around alleged events from the life of...
Director Sydney Pollack, best known for his grandiose productions, produced this film about his friend, architect Frenk Gehry. It is a well-balanced portrait that offers both positive and negative...
Based on Bob Randall’s biography ‘Songman: Story of an Aboriginal Elder’. Bob is an indigenous man who lives beside Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Based on his own personal...
October 9th 1967. La Higuera, Bolivia. Shots ring out and a man dies. A man, but not the ideals and principles he stood for. The execution ensured that Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna became, and remains,...
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