Self-confessed Christmas Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes, turns to her love of Charles Dickens and the festive traditions in 'A Christmas Carol' to see if she can rekindle her love for Christmas
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Self-confessed Christmas Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes, turns to her love of Charles Dickens and the festive traditions in 'A Christmas Carol' to see if she can rekindle her love for Christmas
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and shot on location in Paris and London.
A feature length docu-concert film, Duran Duran celebrate their four decade long career, the release of their latest studio album FUTURE PAST, and the launch of a global world tour. An extraordinary night of music, shot on a Los Angeles rooftop, with the iconic Capitol Tower behind them and the Hollywood sign in the distance. A Hollywood High reminds us of the prolific's group of its diverse songwriting, and capturing their boundless live energy. The film also brings to life the band’s deep and lasting relationship with Los Angeles and through archival footage, interviews and behind-the-scenes it traces the band’s rise to become one of the most influential and successful groups of all time.
One of the world's greatest singer-songwriters, Joan Armatrading, does what she does best, accompanied by a full live band. Filmed at Asylum Chapel, London, in 2021, the show contains a plethora of new songs and classic tracks from across Joan's successful career - including Better Life, Consequences, Love and Affection, Drop the Pilot, Down to Zero and Me, Myself, I.
A short film based on her 2022 album No Thank You.
A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.
With their relationship on the rocks, a young couple travel to the Pembrokeshire coast for a long weekend. Gentle and melancholic in tone, the film explores the hesitations of a break-up, and the way that care lingers.
After the death of her adopted parents, Lacy Graham tries to build a relationship with her birth mother Samantha, but this is made difficult by Samantha's struggle with mental health. Just as they start to bond, the unthinkable happens, and Samantha is kidnapped! Who can she trust? A strange ex-copper, her weird friends, or has a distant relative set his sights on revenge for her father's actions?
A dazzling three-part autobiographical collage of influences from animals and art to photography and psychology, exploring Siobhan Davies’ 50 years as a leading contemporary dance artist.
Like all musicians in 2021, Nick Cave was unable to connect with his audience in person. He uses this concert film to break the vocal and instrumental silence, talk about himself and perform songs from “Ghosteen” and “Carnage”, with help from Warren Ellis.
The intimate story of a young couple and their weekend away in an isolated country home.
Ecstatic lipsynching in downtown bars is a far cry from Donna’s Baptist upbringing in San Jose; now in her seventies, her estranged siblings haven’t even seen her in a dress.
In this hilarious and critically acclaimed stand-up show, Seann Walsh recounts living through the centre of a media storm in his distinctively shambolic, intense and energetic trademark style. Recorded live at the Bill Murray pub in Angel, London.
After initiation into the prestigious York Witches Society, Amber Gray and her new friends unwittingly awaken an ancient evil hellbent on destroying the Gray bloodline. As the witch hunt begins, the women realize they may not make it through the night.
A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change.
At an elderly peoples home, a demonic plastic surgeon has been summoned. And soon, they will all be due a make over.
A young woman, guilt ridden for a crime she committed but got free of, is captured by a sadist for a game of Russian roulette with a great white shark and five similar opportunists who have escaped the law.
"Port Meadow" is an experimental landscape film. It was shot in the eponymous location––an ancient grazing land located in Oxford, England––during the nationwide lockdown of November 2020. Consisting of various long takes, the film examines the relationship between human life and the natural environment, and meditates on the ability of filmic technology to simultaneously articulate and contribute to the (illusory) stratification that underscores this association.
Over three pivotal years in party politics, activists in the safest Labour seat in the country campaign for change under the banner of Jeremy Corbyn's 'For The Many' manifesto.
Gun-toting gangsters, lawless lawyers and backstabbing bastards. There's a family in the middle, and while some are trying to keep it afloat, others want to tear it apart.
Cockadoodledoo!
14-year-old Scottish surfer Ben Larg wants to conquer one of the most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore, Ireland. If he succeeds, he will become the youngest surfer ever to do so. Danger, opportunity, and parental dilemma collide propelling Ben and his family towards an unknown destiny.
In an after-school, last-chance, catch-up class, 16 year-old student Ria’s struggle to better herself clashes with her teacher Emily’s battle to get through an English lesson evoking racial tensions and societal issues that they soon find to be all too relevant.
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
The Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship that was bombed by operatives of the French government, in New Zealand in 1985, while heading to a protest against nuclear testing, tragically taking the life of photographer Fernando Pereira. Edward McGurn’s enlightening and exciting documentary uncovers a tangled tale of nuclear weapons, geopolitical coverups, and attempts to take action against impending environmental collapse. Was Pereira’s death an accident or part of a larger political plot?
In a twisted story of co-dependence, two sisters are pitted against each other by a giant, abhorrent leech creature that uses its mind-controlling influence to puppeteer them from the inside out.
1994. A film about a coach trip, male beauty and the gaze of teenage girls. Two 15 year old girls leave South London in 1994 and find their teenage gaze in Venice, in a promise that is never fulfilled. Was being 15 truly the last invincible age of their romantic lives?
A man's commitment to his job takes a dark and surreal turn for the worst.
After making a psychologically compromising decision, a young woman faces a vividly strange reality.
Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.
A group of classmates celebrate their graduation in an isolated place about which a sinister story is told.
Dodger reunites with Fagin's gang, and they try their boldest plan yet - a train robbery!
Jimmy Akingbola reveals the truth of growing up in the care system in England, where the number of children in care has risen by a massive 28 per cent in the past decade to almost half a million.
When seven old friends meet for a goodbye meal, sparks fly when a shocking announcement is made.
When a seaside town is gripped in a vice of drug fuelled corruption, sometimes the only solution is to book a dance with the Morris Men. In pursuit of his childhood sweetheart, loner Tommy Martin enrols in her Morris dancing club. He soon realises that all is not as it seems, and the Tendring Guild of the Morris Men is actually a cover for a secret society of shadowy assassins, as ancient as the British realm. Before he knows it, Tommy is sucked into a perilous underworld, where danger lurks behind a blood red wax seal and the only dancing is with the devil himself
A boy and his older brother go on a cycling trip to bond over the loss of their mother.
Love was a central theme in The Beatles catalog—it was ever-present in their music. It's no wonder why those tracks have stood the test of time.
An earthquake has hit the city and a family must seek refuge before its too late.
A visually dazzling, hilarious ode to losing at video games and the egos which get battered along the way.
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations. Discover the innovative projects and feats of engineering currently underway, including a hi-tech flood barrier, eco-projects to conserve the lagoon, and new efforts to investigate erosion beneath the city.
This powerful narrative drama centers on Patrick, a Deaf man who has been incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for 36 years after being wrongly diagnosed as a schizophrenic. With the help of a Deaf social worker who understands his dilemma, Patrick appeals for his release.
Suffering from agoraphobia and believing she is being tormented by an alien entity, Caroline must distinguish between reality and mental illness. With the help of her therapist, she summons the strength to leave the confines of her home.
This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour.
Natalia, a writer from rural Poland travels to London to explore her passion for cinema, where she meets a fellow artist Sofia. Soon they discover a new passion between them.
Since its debut in 1994, Nigeria has qualified for six of the eight FIFA World Cup tournaments, reaching the last 16 on three occasions. They are three-time Africa Cup of Nations winners. And they have placed fifth in FIFA rankings – the highest position achieved by an African team. It’s no surprise, then, that they are affectionately known as the Super Eagles. Bamiro’s fascinating documentary not only details how the team grew in stature, it locates them within the country’s politically turbulent recent history – through the various coups, the imprisonment and execution of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and many others, and the corporate scandals resulting from widespread pollution. It successfully balances profiles of those involved in the team’s success with figures who have fought to better life across the whole of the country.
A troubled man battles his mental illness as he attempts to fix an issue from his past in a bid to save his future.
1970's: A lonely divorcee, Nellie, meets widower Frank on a trip to the seaside. Nellie lets herself be swept away by the hope of connection. But as the seagulls circle overhead and Frank begins to ask too many questions, Nellie realises she will never be able to escape a monstrous family secret ...
Three years in the making, this feature-length documentary shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon, and tells the compelling story of a fish that once lived in the forest.
After a freak accident, experienced caver George Linnane was left with multiple life-threatening injuries within Britain’s deepest cave system. This drama documentary set in the Brecon Beacons tells the story of his remarkable 54-hour-long rescue. With George’s life hanging in the balance, a team of over 300 individuals came to the rescue, from Wales and across the UK, to try and save his life and bring him safely to the surface.
Hugh is left alone at his home for the day, but starts to become wary when he believes that his recently deceased grandmother is haunting him.
An apprehensive young man moves into university halls, and the sudden feeling of isolation forces him into an argument with his older brother about identity, love, and the repression of dreams.
Littlewoods was once the largest family-owned business in the UK, employing over 30,000 women at its peak. Using archive images, interviews and conversations, Liverpool poet Jeff Young, animator Laura Spark and musician Jezebel Halewood-Leagas lead us through the derelict Littlewoods HQ conjuring fond memories to life once more.
The last man on Earth stumbles across a strange device, leading him on a journey that will change everything.
‘MAMA’ is a mockumentary set in a drama school, centring on the shambolic professional life of new Principal, Olive Bady. The pilot is set in a fictional Drama School, MAMA. Filmed in a mockumentary format, it depicts a ‘typical’ day at a conservatoire and introduces us to key members of staff and new Principal, Olive Bady. Olive is on a mission to ensure the survival of this prestigious institution through the introduction of progressive teaching methods and financial restraint. We watch as Olive attempts to be all things to all people: friend, performer and ‘boss’ with entertaining results.
Scream Team is a successful structured reality TV show in which it's three stars, Lucy, Jordan and Pip go ghost hunting in various supposedly haunted locations. Structured is they key word here though, the girls don't really believe in the paranormal or supernatural, that is until they accept an invitation to investigate strange goings on in a small Bulgarian village.
The biggest-titted Edinburgh Best Show nominees return in their darkest-ever adventure. Learn the horrifying true story of what happened when Amy and Christopher-Louise decided to hide from their problems on a remote island. As tensions flare and psyches fray, how will Yorkshire's finest meat-themed duo survive?
Documented in television documentaries for over 40 years by the BBC and other broadcasters around the world, the Marsh Pride is the most filmed pride of lions on Earth. In this film, the Marsh Pride battle for survival in Kenya's famous Maasai Mara Reserve, which has become a magnet for tourists, many of them keen to see the pride for themselves. A tale of shifting loyalties, bloody takeovers and sheer resilience, the lions’ story is told by those who filmed them, tried to protect them and lived alongside them, as well as some who ultimately wanted them dead.
Janet travels to an island to employ the services of an agency that re-enacts people’s dreams. But after falling for one of the women acting in her fantasy, she decides to stay and join the company.
This documentary looks back at a career spanning over 20 years, defining the sport Down Under and a never faltering love for the game.