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On the buckle of the Bible Belt lies the Oklahoman branch of the ISUPK, an ethnic religious group listed officially as a "hate group." Harry Robinson travelled across the Atlantic to find out what it takes for faith to become hate.
A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking its audiences down the highways and byways of northern life in the early 20th century - its industries and rural life, its wartimes and festivals, its transport, holidays, family excursions and huge, city-wide occasions.
Kirsty Young hosts coverage of beacons being lit around the UK and Commonwealth to celebrate the platinum jubilee of Britain’s longest serving monarch. Carol Kirkwood, Gethin Jones and Holly Hamilton report from events taking place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Jermaine Jenas is outside Buckingham Palace, where senior members of the royal family will light the principal beacon. Celebrity guests join Kirsty to share their memories of meeting the Queen. The programme also reflects on the celebrations that took place earlier in the day, including an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at EastEnders and the pomp and ceremony of Trooping the Colour with its extended flypast.
In the early 1960s, Ringo Starr, well known for his easygoing personality, became a legend as a member of The Beatles. Starr, primarily a drummer, also sang and occasionally wrote songs for the group, including "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Octopus's Garden." In part, Starr's playing shaped rock n' roll for decades to come, as he kept the beat with his sharp, aggressive style behind the kit. As a result of the goodwill and fortune he earned as a Beatle, he was loved around the world and welcomed wherever he went. Even though he was the guy who could sing "Yellow Submarine" and get blisters on his fingers during "Helter Skelter," his success and status didn't protect him from the unseemly, upsetting, and depressing side of life. Although Starr has had more than his fair share of darkness and bad luck, he has been an honourable person through his contributions to music and charities.
On the eve of the 2022 Championships, here’s another chance to relive what happened at Wimbledon last year. It was another thrilling tournament, with Novak Djokovic claiming his sixth title at the All England Club, coming from behind to beat Italy’s Matteo Berrettini in the final. Meanwhile, Ash Barty became the first Australian champion in the women’s singles for 41 years, and teenager Emma Raducanu announced herself on the world stage with a run to the fourth round as a wild card. (BBC)
A rich tapestry of image, music and poetry is interwoven in this powerful meditation on Black resilience.
One of the great rivalries of European football, the friction between the supporters of Lisbon's two great clubs Benfica and Sporting is historic and growing. Divided along class lines, geography and more than 100 years of intense enmity, the two most successful clubs in Portuguese football are the fiercest of rivals.
A 30th anniversary documentary about Ghostwatch.
In the year Queen Elizabeth marks her 70th on the throne, Fortnum & Mason has challenged home bakers to create a tart, cake, or pudding to honor her legacy. Seven judges headed by Dame Mary Berry invite the final five bakers to London where over one extraordinary day they bake their cakes, tarts, and trifles – hoping it will be the winning recipe.
While caught in the crossfire of an argument between his parents, Jackson uses music to escape from his current reality.
Director George Popov presents a voyage exploring terrifying ghostly tales of the sea and monstrous horrors from the deep.
A elderly man who has a photo album of forgotten memories, has one specific memory that he can't quite remember. Different events and things happen throughout his day which slowly hint at different parts of the past until eventually they all form together where he is able to relive that day once again.
Behind the scenes at the confectionery company's base in Bournville near Birmingham as staff gear up for the festive season, hitting the factory floor to discover how popular treats Roses are made, with the focus on the creation of the hazelnut in caramel. Historians and Cadbury insiders tell the story of how Cadbury first turned Britain on to festive chocolate, while Santa and his team prepare for the rush at Cadbury World.
Dylan and Molly get their first mobile phones and immediately they both ring at the same time. When they answer, a Mystery Man (known as Future TX) says he's calling from the future and needs their help. Like, right now. To save the world!
When a cursed amulet turns their rival boy band act into a screeching gang of zombies, a group of cheerleaders must learn to use their wits, friendship and assorted power tools before a TV talent show takes a turn for the apocalyptic.
The McFly Brasil Tour unfolded across May 2022 with a total of six dates. On May 26, 2022, a live concert was recorded at Qualistage in Rio de Janeiro and made available on McFly Total Access.
England, 1940: When falling bombs trap eight children in the cellar of their orphanage, their teacher, Miss Shaw starts to read them a story. As the tale unfolds, they are magically transported to a timeless, mythical island, where they witness the story of Darkness and Light...
A woman attends the wake of a friend she knew as an infant.
At 18, George Ward left the Gypsy community. He had felt rejected having come out as gay. Leaving his Gypsy identity behind, he invented Cherry Valentine, a drag alter-ego. Now he wants to find out if he can be accepted as a queer Gypsy and feel proud.
Documentary on Terence Davies shot during the making of his final feature film Benediction.
After many years of giving his wonderful lecture talks of his he does, Count Arthur Strong has at last bowed to substantial pubic demand and allowed himself be talked into making the show about himself for once. And that had never occurred to him before because of him being highly magnanimous. Recorded live at The Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle.
Inspired by a 70s heist movie, the band - under fake names - is a gang who kidnapped a teddy bear and asks for a 500 thousand euros ransom
Body Knots is an affectionate look at outcasts on a mission of love and revenge.
Croatia’s achievement in coming 3rd at the 1998 World Cup in France was staggering. A nation barely established took on and beat the world’s powerhouse nations, coming within a whisker of lifting the trophy. But, this is much more than just a story about a talented football team, it is the tale of a nation emerging from the wreckage of the Balkan war and the disintegration of Yugoslavia to stand proudly as an independent country on football’s grandest stage.
In Victorian England, a free-thinking young woman must convince her newly widowed sister that life is still worth living.
Sonny, a 13-year-old with autism, reflects on what it felt like to be in and out of school during the lockdowns.
A social experiment-turned-baroque musical in a Vienna exhibition space, where the boundaries between body and world dissolve in a delirious and darkly funny mirror image of civilisation itself.
Darrell, an intern at a corporate company, does not buy into the white-collar culture of ‘going along to get along’. He chooses to surround himself amongst a few bad apples. Darrell finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. The advice given to him by Ben, a violent group leader, keeps him narrow-minded about his environment until his friend Ryan, an intelligent hustler with dreams of opening a restaurant, shows Darrell to think about what he wants for his future.
Jessica, a trans woman living in Brighton, hasn't been on a date since before she transitioned. Wanting to get back into the dating game but hesitant to make the first move, her friend Taylor suggests the idea of a blind date, to which Jessica reluctantly agrees. Things take an unexpected turn when Jessica realises that the person that she's been set up on a blind date with is actually someone she used to go to school with before she transitioned.
An eager young fighter with a disapproving family and a boxing coach with a traumatic past, try to overcome their personal issues by letting each other into their lives.
She was once the most loved member of the royal family. Expelled from her fairytale lifestyle, the tragic end of Princess Diana, Queen of hearts, stunned the world. Although she has left us, she has not been forgotten.
After seeing a mention of a man called ‘Daniel’ on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of the man buried in Nympsfield in 1719 and described on the Transcript as ‘a black stranger’. Whilst walking, Dan talks directly to Daniel, speculating about the parallels between him and his namesake, from potential walking routes to speeds and shoe sizes. As the film progresses, Dan opens up to Daniel about how he’s been made to feel like a ‘black stranger’ in his hometown of Stroud after his involvement in a council-led review of streets, buildings, statues and monuments garnered national media attention and right-wing backlash for asking people’s opinions on an object called the Black Boy Clock.
A disillusioned diner waitress decides to take matters into her own hands with rude customers and deal with them how she's always been told - kill them with kindness.
When a young IRA volunteer stumbles upon an injured British Soldier in the woods near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, he is faced with the ultimate decision. Take a man's life, proving his worth to his new family, or suffer the consequences. Blue Skies is loosely based on the Warrenpoint ambush, a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, that took place on the 27th of August 1979 where 18 British soldiers were killed with over 20 wounded.
Canvey Island is outside London. It suffered the worst natural disaster in modern British history. A storm surge flooded the island in 1953. Today, people still live there.
This short film documents a series of artist-led local workshops, which took place at Category Is Books. Participants were encouraged to collectively imagine a world led by women, where earthlings had adopted a feminist abundance mind-set. In a shared vision of post-work society, they explored moving beyond scarcity to collectively organise planetary and people care through feminist economic principles. The Planet Abundance project took Teresa Feldmann’s draft text for a feminist science fiction as a starting point for collaboratively imagining a world beyond capitalism, using speculative science fiction as a vehicle for radical political imagination. The work was commissioned by Feminist Exchange Network (Glasgow) and curated by artistic director Ailie Rutherford.
In an alternate society where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is considered taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.
1969. July the 15th. Stage 17 of the Tour de France. A brutal stage from Luchon to Mourenx covering four of the toughest mountains in the Pyrenees. On this fateful day, Eddy Merckx catapulted himself into the history books with one of the greatest solo breakaways the sport has ever seen. Fast forward over half a century, and GCN’s Simon Richardson is in the Pyrenees to pay tribute to The Cannibal by recreating his ride. To make the 220km epic even more challenging, Si will do it aboard his 1969 spec Faema team bike and wearing their iconic red and white jersey. Eddy Merckx made this ride look easy, but will Si even make it to the finish line?
In an interview with a humble postman, a mysterious death becomes the focus of his life as he was the first to discover the corpse. His days of innocently delivering letters in the Desert Hills now feel empty without the presence of the Sand Woman, whose death might turn out to be more violent than it seems.
The night before her son Dee Dee’s seventh birthday, an unexpected intruder crash-lands into Grace’s kitchen. As she discovers who the intruder, Grace must decide how to protect her son while navigating the complexities of Black parenthood in modern Britain.
A live performance formed by Stormzy’s raw and honest truth as it stands tall as one of the most heavily relatable and moving bodies of art surrounding topics surrounding vulnerability, emotional grievance and love.
Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. As the two men unpack their memories, audiences embody the experience of a 7-year-old child at key points in the migration. Child of Empire offers a powerful counter-narrative that lends a fresh perspective on the effects of forced migration on everyday individuals.
A collection of Stevie Wonder's best BBC moments, including hits such as I Just Called to Say I Love You, Happy Birthday, He’s Misstra Know-It-All and Love’s in Need of Love Today.
‘Panthera Britannia’ is a feature-length documentary exploring the unusual phenomenon of the United Kingdom’s population of mysterious large cats, which are alleged to be prowling the wilderness and countryside of rural Britain. Britain has a long, colourful and complicated history of having a diverse exotic pet trade; from the days of the old British Empire, until the mid-20th century, it was deemed an indicator and symbol of status, wealth and fashion to own exotic pets, (especially big cats). Incidents and reports spiralled out of control in the 1960s; and with the later introduction of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976, the situation only intensified, as some exotic cat owners who were unable to afford the new licences required to legally retain their pets, set about deliberately releasing their privately owned big cats in preference of having them terminated. Reports and sightings of big cats in Britain continue to this day.
Amidst an anticipated house party, a hidden secret is unfolded in one tense and hypnotic night.
'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as overactive minds. From their clubhouse in the woods, they must come up with a far-fetched plot to overthrow the baddies and claim victory.
A monologue about home, hospitals and let’s say hope for the alliteration.
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. This film explores and highlights the enthralling and hugely important biography and output of an incredible artist.
A short silent film filmed in southern Messenia in October 2022. It was shot with a Beaulieu R16 on Kodak 7207.
A young man traverses the nooks and crannies of his English countryside house only to find something terrifying.
A maverick British art house movie exploring solitude, sanity and suffering under The State. As a contagion befalls the UK a grieving teacher attempts to recover the tragic-comic fragments of his shattered self in Manchester.
An audiovisual poem. Cryptic whispers speak of a mysterious being, known only to forgotten folklore, that has travelled across distant lands to haunt citizens of a neon-drenched city.
Malcolm, now 45, lost his penis 12 years ago and has had a replacement growing on his arm and awaiting transplant for the past six.
Industry insiders, retail experts and former employees reveal the secrets of the the world's biggest furniture seller, IKEA: the tricks they use to get customers to spend, and how the massive maze-like warehouses are designed to keep people there for hours.
A musical re-telling of a classic children's tale, featuring musicians from the BBC Philharmonic, narrated by Nihal Arthanayake.
Mo Gilligan breaks down his days as a broke teenager, working in retail, relationship dynamics, annoying talk show producers and more in this special.
GALWAD was a multi-platform drama told in real-time over seven days online and on TV. The story culminated in a 4.5 hour continuous broadcast on Sky Arts combining a catch-up of the week's live streamed performances, a 90minute live finale and 60minute prerecorded drama. The production was a trilingual drama testing how a story could be distributed across broadcast, social media and live-streamed performance, bringing the skills of theatre, film and tv sectors together.
On Channel 4's 2021 Alternative Christmas Message, Tom Daley wished for 'a brave footballer to step forward and say, I'm gay'. A year later, Tom chats to Jake Daniels - who did just that.
Insde the frozen hell of children's parties and American cultural imperialism. A comedy short from Make Me Films.