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A rare panorama of Cuban music and dance from the 1960s. Featuring legendary Cuban musicians as well as vibrant spontaneous performances, We Are the Music captures the mood and vitality of Havana during its golden period.

Gifted amateur dancer gets her big break on the Berlin Stage in this wartime romantic comedy.

An artist goes beyond the current rush we live in and paints a five hundred square meters wall painting that will inspire a creatively blocked songwriter. A short film that claims the synergetic power of art and culture.

On New Year's Day 1964, Jimmy Savile ushered in a revolution in television broadcasting - a weekly show devoted to the pop charts. In the first of an evening of programmes marking the 30th anniversary of Top of the Pops, Smashie and Nicey (Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse) pay tribute to this triumphant survivor from the days when the Beatles topped the chart with I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Three poptastic decades surrender their fab sounds, their hits and their haircuts, for our nostalgic enjoyment - from the Moptops to Take That, from the Stones to Madonna.

In 2006 one of the most iconic mixtape sagas in the history of Italian rap made its appearance to teach Italy what rap was. 15 years later " Fastlife " returns to the scene, because it is necessary to remember that lesson with a new vigor.

Finally, the first documentary on B.O.S.S.! It took 12 months of filming to capture the eventful life of one of the most famous French hip-hop collectives and its leader: JOEYSTARR.

Critical review of the band's amazing rise to power from the very beginning to the departure of "Fast" Eddie Clarke.

The documentary focuses on the impressive event of the Italian youth world organized at Parco Lambro in Milan in 1976. The gathering, four days dedicated to counterculture and pop music, was attended by students, young people, workers, lumpenproletarians, feminists, gays and young people from extra-parliamentary groups. The memories and testimonies of those who organized, sang or simply participated will be a commentary on the splendid images of the time. For the first time, meaning is given to the exclusive and complete material shot by Alberto Grifi and six other operators at Parco Lambro in 1976.

Brad Mehldau is one of the most important jazz pianists of our time. The Frankfurt Radio Big Band and its composer in residence Darcy James Argue present some of Mehldau's pieces for the ensemble at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie.

The story of a Variety Theatre, illustrated by performers from its past.

Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, Germany, on December 20th, 1980, for the Rockpop TV show. Set List: Psycho Killer Cities I Zimbra Once In A Lifetime Animals Crosseyed And Painless Life During Wartime The Great Curve

This last recital will remain forever marked in the history of the famous hall. It is one of the only testimonies of Jacques Brel on stage where his talent was best expressed. This concert also retains a very strong emotional dimension because it is his last tour.

Documentary about punk band Heavy Load, subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band, but uniquely made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities. This makes the band's survival a precarious negotiation between two different worlds - on the one hand the institutional timetable of day centres, work placements and social workers and, on the other, the chaotic slacker life of rehearsal rooms, studios and gigs. (Storyville)

A deep dive into the BBC’s music archives for a celebration of battling brothers Noel and Liam, and the classic songs that helped to define the 1990s and the Britpop era.

Among the ruins of a magical place in the middle of the Tuscan countryside, as if arriving from another planet, two giant amplifiers, sixteen musicians, and their instruments touch down. Despite the Abbey’s lack of a roof, which would allow the sound an easy escape into the sky, Lucio Corsi and his companions manage to trap the music in an original and evocative film.

The legendary Oleg Nikolaevitch Karavaichuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the young director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian.

Second of four "musical arabesks".

The Dante Project, which premiered in London in October 2021, is today entering the Paris Opera’s repertoire. To a colourful orchestral score by Thomas Adès, British choreographer Wayne McGregor presents a three‑act ballet inspired by the alternately chilling and sunlit landscapes of the Divine Comedy. Written in the 14th century by Dante, this seminal poem of the Italian language recounts an initiatory journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

For five decades the woman they call the Divine Miss M has forged a path which has taken her from a pineapple-canning factory in Honolulu to becoming a Hollywood legend. Alan Yentob joins Bette Midler on a journey through the chorus lines of Broadway and the bathhouses and nightclubs of the 1970s to the very top of the film industry. Her combination of a soulful voice and the raucous wit of Mae West has made her name as an outrageous, but always captivating, all-round entertainer.

Herbert von Karajan conducts La Scala Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.

Olympian gods and nymphs are celebrating Aurora's birth in the Vale of Tempe, crossed by the river Peneo. They praise her features in verse and song, comparing them to rivers and flowers. The text is anonymous and hints at a regal birth, probably Maria Theresa of Austria's in 1717.

Few recording studios in the world can claim to have hosted the simply incredible list of musicians that found their way into Berlin’s Hansa Studios, standing virtually alone in the wasteland, metres from the Berlin Wall.

This animation is set to the duet composed of Édith Piaf and Théo Sarapo, singing the song “À quoi ça sert l’amour ?”.

Watch Morcheeba play a stunning November 2002 set at Brixton Academy, then embark on a tour of China in March 2003. The band was invited by the British Council to play 8 shows in 5 cities as part of the Think U.K. festival, which brought the best of Britain's originality, creativity, and innovation to China in a series of high-profile events. The bonus 24-minute tour documentary shows footage of the band playing live in Beijing and discussing their experiences in China. Track Listing: The Sea Friction Tape Loop Otherwise Part of the Process Aqaulung Love Sweet Love Be Yourself Slow Down Trigger Hippie What New York Couples Fight About Moog Island Way Beyond Get Along Public Displays of Affection Jolene Blindfold Undress Me Now Over and Over Charango Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

Larion Dyakov is a painter, but he doesn't use paint; instead, he "paints pictures through music." He plays the viola and connects it to a chain of various effects devices to loop his phrases and alter the original sound of his classical instrument. The result is a mixture of classical and modern ambient music that can transport you to another world and paint a new picture in your mind's eye, if you let it.

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

A couple decides to commit suicide.

Red Bull Music Festival brings Aphex Twin to Printworks on the 14th of September, 2019.

Matthias Scheichelroither is a poor but always cheerful, or rather, jolly farmer. He has grand plans for his son Heini, nicknamed "Heinerle": He intends for him to one day become a trained academic, a doctor. To achieve this, the old man scrims and saves to give Heinerle a perfect education. But Heini has other plans: Instead of focusing on his studies, he is drawn to music. With the help of Vivian Harrison, a wealthy American woman who is in love with him, he finally manages to organize his first concert as a composer.

The film is a dark and fantastical touring tale with a little rock n' roll on the side just for good measure. This is a road movie. this is a rock and roll drama, a tale that exposes the rumors surrounding a mythical festival tour (or is it just the drugs?). The cinematography is stunning, the drug taking shocking and the horror horrific, not for the faint hearted. It's a unique film capturing the true essence of the festival spirit, unlike any British film to date. This movie is the essence of a rock and roll nightmare. It's a must see for anyone who's been on the road.. and if you've not gone on tour before... after this you never will.

2015 was a momentous year for novelist Marlon James. He became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker prize for his magisterial novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, about the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and their aftermath. He also chose to come out as gay in an article for the New York Times - a brave move for a man born in what has been called the world's most homophobic country. Alan Yentob accompanies the charismatic and provocative James back to Jamaica and finds in his three highly praised novels a complex portrait of the turbulent history of his native country.

A one-hour documentary narrated by Ralf Little about the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester which changed the face of music forever.

An alien decides to visit Earth in order to check out the current pop culture.

During the day, Hinnerk, Georg, Paul and Manuel work as parcel carriers for a delivery service. In the evenings, the buddies like to get together and talk about everything that's on their minds. Then Hinnerk learns that their boss's little daughter is going to have to undergo an extremely expensive operation.

This was the first hometown gig where the Smiths were headliners. As the band came on stage Morrissey greeted the fans "Hello you little charmers... we're the Smiths, how d'you do?" then launched into "You've Got Everything Now". Throughout the show, in one song out of two (faster numbers), Morrissey - who still looked ill at ease on stage at the time - had something to shake in his right hand while with the left one he held the microphone.

Sergey Khachatryan and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alain Altinoglu, perform Aram Khatchatourian's Violin Concerto. Also on the programme, Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.