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The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Akomfrah has disguised this exploration as a science fiction story – in the manner of the groundbreaking writers profiled in The Last Angel of History – while providing a bravura display of the aesthetics of video art in the 1990s. The tale of visitors from the future who gather dreams from unwitting subjects in order to construct a history of the Black diaspora both defamiliarizes Akomfrah’s ongoing project and points to the danger that extracting history from memory can be a kind of expropriation.

Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson visits his old haunts in Hong Kong before its administrative rule is returned from Britain to China.

An encounter with a small man-made waterfall presented in a triptych format.

Recorded at "Butlin's in Minehead on October 10th 1990.

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.

Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone...

Penned by composer Thomas Ades, this contemporary opera is based on the life of the Duchess of Argyll (played by Mary Plazas), who's fallen on hard times in old age. A notoriously oversexed money-grubber in her younger days, the down-and-out duchess faces eviction from the hotel she calls home. Heather Buck, Daniel Norman and Graeme Broadbent also star in this uninhibited production, with Ades conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. The impulsive Stelios skips their small town, deserts from the army, and is thought dead, until Yannis, now a city cop, recognizes his name on the papers of an illegal immigrant seaman. He begins a search for his lost brother, a search that takes him across many borders: between past and present, between Greece and its neighbouring countries, between one identity and another.

Capturing escaped pythons, confiscating pet cougars or wrestling with exotic crocodiles - it's all in a day's work for Miami specialist police officer Lieutenant Kat Kelley. The locals are crazy about owning flamboyant pets and many of these exotic animals have escaped and multiplied over the years, threatening both people and native wildlife. Kelley is on call 24 hours a day and never knows what she will have to face. "We're fighting a losing battle here. Basically, nature is out of control."

Family of mice help an angel in need retrieve a magic wand from the snow, a hungry owl tries to eat them and later Santa appears.

London’s cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk. In this kaleidoscopic arrangement of encounters and re-enactments, equal weight is given to the passionate and the banal. The camera’s sudden hops from one reality to another and the disjointed conversations are drawn together by the musical score and the film’s internal rhythm.

Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack

In his hometown of Southampton, Ken Russell takes his young son and his aunts out to dinner, but the new traffic restrictions mean he can't get near the place. Traffic signs force him onto a sightseeing tour of town, then the ferry port looms ...

Documentary behind the creation of Aardman's mascot for Lurpak.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Men and Little Miss help him?

Omozap is a gun-wielding wildman and Keen anti-superhero akin to The Punisher. Compulsive animation and action look to the Artwar films and videos to come.

A Film by Phil Mulloy

A British lesbian couple with one child and looking to get pregnant again partner up with two gay men to make their expanding family a reality,

Ally McCoist is the pin-up boy of Scottish football. The most successful goal scorer since the Second World War, his bubbling personality and great sense of humour have endeared him not just to Rangers supporters, but to virtually everyone who supports the game. 'Super Ally' is a remarkable record of Ally's career. See him as you've never seen him before - his exciting goals for club and country, the memories, the fun; they're all in this unique insight into one of the best loved characters Scottish football has ever produced. There's also an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his preparation for a big match.

Mike Reid, the TV Star, appears as you've never seen him before, in this special video presentation. No holds are barred as he delivers his uncensored and strictly adult only stand-up comedy routine. Devastatingly funny and totally unstoppable, it's a whirlwind of a performance which leaves no areas of life unmentioned. Sex, religion and politics all get the same down to earth treatment, as Mike Reid displays to a celebrity audience, the comic genius which first brought him to fame. An unforgettable and specially made video performance from one of Britain's best-loved stars. Your one and only chance to see the real Mike Reid!

Released from the leashes that keep him almost a family entertainer on television, Freddie Starr performs his blue set live at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach Arena. He is unpredictable, outrageous and very rude.

Ruth Lingford's interpretation of women's everlasting burden of fertility.

An allegory for the passage from being alive to being dead. The cyclops is the one-eyed father - the one-eyed king in the land of the blind - the single lens of the camera - three screens beyond stereoscopy.

The life of prolific Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is portrayed through biographical, on-location flashbacks from his birth place intermingled with live concert performances from the historical Kirov (Mariinsky) Symphony Orchestra, St.Petersburg, conducted by internationally acclaimed maestro Valeriy Gergiev. These unique musical sequences give the dramatized episodes from Prokofiev's life a time-transcending significance and actuality in todays ever-changing Russia.

A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the London Underground. She begins to believe that these people, like her, have all taken part in the same event. She composes a letter to her friend Fatima – a personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching. The story is spoken in Urdu with sub-titles in English, although the subtitles do not always appear in conjunction with what is spoken.

A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs.

Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity.

The overall feel of Drift is sombre and mysterious; a study of winter light falling on the surface of water, metal and cloud. The dominant colour is grey; grey infused with a multitude of ocean blues and greens. There is little land in this film and very few landmarks from which to navigate from one space to the next. The picture plane is in continuous motion like the ocean which, on the surface at least, is the subject of Drift.

Tempers begin to fray at a whaling station in the dying days of the industry.

For this video, Jeff Keen had all his images for the Artwar series run together and over the top of each other.

Art Attack - Christmas Cracker!

This video opera incorporates improvised singing and some unusual instruments. The narrative centres around a Queen who, fearing revolution, seeks to find out what goes on outside her castle walls. Her personal joys and emotions and those of her people are woven into a collage of sound and imagery climaxing in the attempted murder of the young crown Prince and the siege of the castle.

A woman who lives with her childhood.

Short film by Chris Shepherd

The UK series Equinox brings us this investigation of a mystery that is baffling Egyptologists. The case calls into question whole areas of accepted scientific fact from botany, through chemistry to archaeology. In 1992, routine tests on a mummy in a Munich museum revealed high body levels of cocaine and nicotine. But such substances were not available in ancient Egypt, coming as they do from the Americas – not, apparently, to be “discovered” for thousands of years after the passing of the Egyptian dynasties. Are the mummies fakes; were the substances from plants that have since disappeared or were there, in fact, trade routes between Egypt and South America that predate accepted chronology?

Frank Cvitanovich's charming documentary film follows the bizarre story of a husband and wife, Merlyn and Roy Suckling, who boldly decide to start up an airline. Suckling Airways, the UK's smallest international airline, has one 20-seater Dornier 228 plane and operates two daily flights from Cambridge to Manchester and Amsterdam.

Recycled "scrap" footage and a jungle soundtrack toy with our ability to "see" sounds.

When a guinfighter drifts into a small Arizona town offering his gun for hire he finds what life is all about and that his has been wasted.

Highlights from Manchester United's successful quest for the Premier League championship.

Provocative, feminist critique of man’s technological progress.

A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discovers the old mans corpse in his room, and, fearing that they might be blamed for killing him, devises a cover-up plan, which is almost foiled by a local boy.

Part of the COI's infamous "Drinking And Driving Wrecks Lives" campaign which ran between 1987 and 1997. We see a single, uninterrupted shot but this time it's of a young woman laying on the asphalt after being hit by a drunk driver. As the camera pans slowly away from her eyes (one of which is dilated, an indicator of severe brain trauma) we see paramedics trying to resuscitate her as she lays lifeless in a pool of her own blood. Played over the footage is the audio of the drunk driver who caused the accident being quizzed by a police officer, desperately pleading for her to "be alright" – though it appears that the paramedics' attempts to resuscitate her continue to be futile.

A Film Portrait of Edward Heath. Edward Heath was one of the most controversial Prime Ministers this century. He took Britain into Europe, but was brought down by the very trades unions he sought to tame. In an intimate Portrait Sir Edward talks candidly about his life and career, and of his stormy relationship with his successors.

Once upon a Time.... Some of Britain's best-loved television stars take to the stage of the Dominion Theatre in London to raise funds for the NSPCC. This year's show is an adventure. A boy sets out on an unusual quest - to find a name for himself, and to find a story to entertain the wizard who created him in an idle moment.

Taped live at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev conducts this landmark production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece. This opera premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1862, and is performed here in its original St. Petersburg version using reconstructions of the magnificent painted scenery.

An intense young woman, Valerie (Carmel Morrissey), hears and sees things that others can't, like the snails screaming as she gardens. She glimpses a glamorous woman on a train and is smitten, entering a swashbuckling fantasy world.

Footage of the first Iraq War is jarringly intercut with shots of the artist painting at the local tip and at home. Drawing upon pivotal moments in Jeff Keen's own life - serving in WW2 - these explosive films are a distillation of the themes and concerns that run throughout his work. These compelling titles stage a frenetic attack on our sense of modern culture.

Carol Morley's debut short uses the iconography of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – to explore the story of a girl's relationship with her father, and the impossibility of recreating a time, a place, and a memory. Cross-cutting between the girl protagonist and her father, the film creates a sense of crisis and conflict. As the girl invests her feelings in her surroundings and describes events connected to her father, we are drawn into a world of pain and pathos. Morley's first directorial credit was her graduation film from Central St. Martin's School of Art.

Ernie Wise was always part of a double-act. As one half of Morecambe and Wise, Britain's most successful comedy team, he enjoyed the lifestyle of the rich and famous. It was a partnership that lasted 46 years - until Eric died in 1984. Then his "little fat friend" had to go on alone. Being number two in their act was never easy for Ernie, and a new solo act has proved even more difficult. Last Christmas, for the first time in 20 years, he appeared in pantomime. This film examines what drives him to want to make a comeback when he could be enjoying his retirement. He is seen preparing for panto, remembering the great times, reliving the jokes; Ernie reveals all, including the hairpiece and the join.

Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light is a video portrait in deliberately unbalanced colours, made by Trevor Mathison and Edward George and produced with Black Audio Film Collective.

Commissioned by Channel 4 Television, "From 60 Degrees North" dispels the myth of the sinking of the Spanish Armada. Using records from the Spanish and Irish archives, it tells the story of those who survived shipwreck, starvation, persecution and disease and made it back to Spain. It is filmed largely on the seas where the events took place.

A full evening performance of Anna Karenina, a ballet in three acts inspired by the novel of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Recorded on 30 October 1993 at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.

TV documentary film about the Operation Grapple nuclear tests.

Organised as an A-Z of themes, subjects and iconographies, this short documentary produced for the Sci-Fi Channel marks 40 years since Hammer produced its first gothic horror film.

An exploration of the world of songwriters in Nashville. It features performances by Dean Dillon, Frank Dycus, Harlan Howard, 'Cowboy' Jack Clement, and Whitey Schafer, as well as the lesser known Junior Lee Farrell and Danny Jackson.

A startling documentary about the world’s most brutal serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, a former Russian school teacher who was sentenced to death last October after a dramatic trial in which he was convicted of killing, mutilating, and cannibalising 52 women and children. Chikatilo is currently held in a bare provincial prison cell in the south of Russia awaiting a date with his executioner, giving exclusive interviews before and after the trial and plenty of astonishing footage captured by the police and KGB. We hear from relatives of his victims, former work colleagues, and experts on serial killers with the Moscow psychiatrist who proclaimed him sane. Highlights of the dramatic trial included the judges summing up and the sentencing which brought cheers and spontaneous applause from a packed courtroom in Rostov.

This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an All-Stars' concert at the city's Salon of Dreams.

A noir animation in which a woman seeks temporary solace from her tense and uncanny home life, unaware that her actions form part of the repeating narrative she wishes to escape. 2D monochrome animation on paper and cel, shot on 16mm film with color bi-packing.

A fantasy film, which mixes fact and fiction, based on director Michael Kohler's time living among the Samburu people of Kenya.