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Documentary series made in China in the early 90s. Agland was an anthropologist and he’d already made a wonderful series in the 80s about the Baka tribe in Cameroon. For Beyond the Clouds, he spent several years in a small town in Yunnan province telling the stories of various characters he met. He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming.
Harry's perfectly normal adopted son Alan becomes disfigured by a Lollipop lady and thus becomes the boy with the big face and has to live through lives challenges due to alarming appearence.
This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book ("Charlie Says: Don't Get High On Your Own Supply"). It shows Lanre as he becomes a character in his own book through his heroin addiction.
In the women's cancer ward of a large Glaswegian hospital, a group of patients share their hopes and dreams for the future
A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: 'Round the Garden' - right round and round again, 'Garden Fliers' - flighty cartoon and a stunner of a piano piece and 'Grove' - grave and sonorous.
The Sleeping Beauty unites Petipa's demanding but enchanting choreography with Tchaikovsky's wonderful score in one of the best-loved of all classical ballets. This recording of Anthony Dowell's 1994 production for The Royal Ballet, with designs by Maria Björnson, features an outstanding cast led by Viviana Durante as a radiant Princess Aurora. She is partnered by Zoltán Solymosi as Prince Florimund and Anthony Dowell himself is a glitteringly elegant embodiment of evil as the wicked fairy Carabosse. The Royal Ballet, exceptional as ever, is accompanied by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, deftly conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
Early live stand up show from Sean Hughes.
A circus juggler falls for a trapeze artist in this short animation.
In Such a Crime, Skip is an undercover eco-agent whose raging libido threatens to blow her cover, until her boss assigns her to a case where her appetite for women actually proves an advantage.
Channel 4 documentary charting the meteoric rise and equally swift decline of Mary Millington, the girl-next-door who became one of the most famous porn stars of the 1970s.
A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with the artist and with some of his notable students, interspersed with brief performances and followed by two concert performances.
The "lost" documentary of the Scottish music group The Blue Nile's tour of the US in 1990. In 1990, the film-maker Bernard Rudden made this documentary "Flags and Fences", which followed The Blue Nile on their tour of America. It's long been thought "lost", but writer, adventurer and all-round-gentleman, Trevor Ward, located and forwarded this copy, which captures Blue Nile as they seemed on the cusp of world success.
Four highly erotic and emotionally charged tales of love and sex. The four vignettes focus on obsessional love and star nine of Britain's most beautiful guys.
Part of the Operavox series.
short by Guy Sherwin
Lily Savage performs her first live tour in four years, captured here at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival. Lily pulls no punches in an act designed to demonstrate that, despite her mainstream television breakthrough with 'Blankety Blank', she is still as outrageous as ever.
A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.
Straight out of This is England! Or was it the other other way round? Never mind, now a classic, World of Skinhead seeks out the roots of skinhead culture - from Detroit to Bergen, from Glasgow to Berlin, honouring its true spirit.
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.
This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper. Some say the results of the restoration are glorious. Others have called them tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.
Follow the tuneful Irish lads as they go about preparing for their tour, making promo videos and recording new singles.
Wendy Cooper and Charlie Simonds provide clear practical guidance on how to start or how to improve your video filming techniques while on vacation in Corfu, Greece.
Told in his own words, and including many well-known personalities from Stanley Kubrick, Sophia Loren and Robert Wagner to members of the Royal Family, in particular Princess Margaret and Prince Charles, this revealing film builds a fascinating and definitive record of a unique genius. Using a unique collection of his own home movies shot between 1948 and 1977 and discovered years after his death, this film presents an intriguing and intimate portrait of Peter Sellers. A DVD was issued entitled "Peter Sellers - As He Filmed It" which is a 97 minute edit of this original broadcast. Not long after the 3 part documentary series was broadcast it was pulled due to "licencing" issues over home-movie footage used that the Sellers estate had not agreed to. The BBC lost the case I believe and thus the reason for the 97mins DVD that was then later released excising the vast majority of the rare illuminating footage.
A Hungarian girl's dreams of fairy-tale happiness clash with the grim routine of her life.
Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.
TV movie version of the famous Prince Igor opera
Documentary of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1989 tour of America.
Michelle's father has left her his super deluxe refrigerator. Its unexpected arrival at the apartment she shares with Ron puts the deep freeze on their love.
An exploration of the work of the Castlemilk Pensioners Action Centre showing that there is life after 60, and that new opportunities, new social activities, and friends are there for everyone - as well as help and advice for the elderly in the community to give them a political and social voice.
Documentary about a 1988 research project, showing scientists at work on location and interacting with aboriginal peoples.
A documentary to explain why certain episodes of Doctor Who no longer exist within the BBC archive and discuss hoaxers who complicate matters.
Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together, is tormented in a dream by his memories of this most tempestuous partnering.
Documentary on the early days of Aardman Animation.
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.
The talking penis, first seen in the books of Gray Joliffe, returns for his second animated outing.
Four young neo-Nazis travel across Europe discussing their beliefs and their disbelief in the Holocaust. They meet several Holocaust survivors on their journey, including Kitty Hart-Moxon at Auschwitz, where she had been imprisoned for almost two years.
Famous South Yorkshire artist John Shuttleworth enters a song for Europe, aided and abetted by his impresario manager Ken Worthington in this spoof.
Live at the Duchess of York in Leeds, November 1992. Limited numbered edition VHS with a nylon stocking.
Dystopian science fiction film from the Christian humanitarian aid organization Tear Fund.
This film is set in a traditional household in Nepal and documents a servant girl, Nani; a married woman, Sarita; and a mother-in-law, Ama. In interesting mixture of entrapment, duty and tradition unfold.
Recorded live at Wembley Arena, July 1989 on their MCMLXXXIX Tour.
The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.
Set in Australia, a little girl speaks about her pet called Sammy. All that is seen of the pet is the shoebox he was kept in.
‘Cezanne’s Eye II’ is an experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cezanne’s Provence. Using the intuitive and expressionist visual language and a striking specially composed soundtrack the film is a movement through land, sky, colour, sound and music that is both sensual and visually challenging.
An artsy, disturbing short film produced for Respect for Animals.
The life story of Nesta Robert Marley, Rastafarian prophet who with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer brought the powerful message of reggae music to the world outside their native Jamaica. Narration consists of selections from Marley's taped interviews.
Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone...
American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.
In this compilation of the Doctor's trials and tribulations over the past 26 years, prepare to enter the world of the Daleks, Cybermen, Yetis, Monoids, and the Master.
Recorded live at the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, 12th August 1989. Setlist: 1. I Wanna Be Adored 2. Elephant Stone 3. Waterfall 4. (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister 5. Made of Stone 6. She Bangs the Drums 7. Where Angels Play 8. Going Down 9. Mersey Paradise 10. I Am the Resurrection
A musical and visual exploration of Christian symbolism in the pictorial style of Caravaggio and LA Tour. Exposes the nature of sexuality, the status of woman and the Christian doctrine, seen after two thousand years of that morality and symbolism.
In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top helicopter pad. He was made Journalist of the Year and International Reporter of the Year for his reporting of the Vietnam War over a period of almost ten years. In 1995’s ‘Vietnam: The Last Battle’, Pilger returns to Vietnam to review those twenty years, seeking to rescue something of Vietnamese past and present from Hollywood images which pitied the invader while overshadowing one of the most epic struggles of the 20th century. And with the embargo on the country now lifted by President Clinton, he describes Vietnam's latest battle against the economic plunder of the country by the United States and other powerful countries
A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.
A young man tries to find a new job with the comic assistance of a mysterious voice.
Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three cuts over the course of its ninety-six minutes duration. Playing upon ambiguity and the unseen, the tape uses physical details of the space to trigger fragmented verbal descriptions of associated memories.
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This show was filmed in Manchester, England in 1983, just as Divine's recording career was taking off, and shows him at his tasteless and tacky best. From his appearance in 1966 in his first John Waters film until his death in 1988, Divine always courted controversy. Love him or hate him you can't help but find him talented and very funny.
The documentary follows Nick's career, his personal rise, fall and the cult that continues to grow after his death. As this is told through personal recollection with no experts or celebrity fans, it is not a tribute but a film about memory and friendship.
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures is a 1992 video by the UK electronic music collective The Orb. It was filmed and recorded at a live performance at Brixton Fridge, London, 12 May 1991. A limited edition of the original UK VHS tape release came with a bonus CD (catalogue number ORBFREECD1) of the soundtrack. The soundtrack was also included as a bonus disk on a limited edition of the initial UK vinyl pressings of U.F.Orb.