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Documentary by Robert Greene about the on-air suicide of American newsreader Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck, who was a news reporter for a local television station in Florida shot herself live on air in 1974....
Shot by Christopher Doyle and with a powerful soundtrack by Northern Irish DJ and composer David Holmes, Mark Cousins’ film takes viewers on an emotional journey through the complex and sometimes tragic...
An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...
Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.
Documentary which follows the progress of a ten year battle over the fossilised skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered in South Dakota by palaeontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills...
In 1960, NBC transmitted what is widely considered to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it...
In this documentary, Rithy Panh uses archival footage and clay figures to recreate the terrible acts that Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed under the dictatorship of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979.
A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...
Eleven films directed by Chris Marker. Includes; SUNDAY IN PEKING (DIMANCHE A PEKN, 1956); LETTER TO SIBERIA (LETTRE DE SIBERIE, 1958); DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE (DESCRIPTION D’UN COMBAT, 1960); THE SIXTH...
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...
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