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Shakespeare's witty battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. The unlikely bonding of a headstrong Kate and domineering Petruchio is only one aspect of a play about change and the magical transformations that theatre can produce.

A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint us a clear portrait – a bigger picture that might not have changed much in the last three decades.

School boys' football game is the focus of a boy's erotic game.

A fascinating collection of interviews, recollections and documentary information about the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, and how it touched people's lives. Investigates the contemporary importance of the story of the Titanic, and the effects it has had on the lives of the many individuals still living. Walter Lord, author of "A night to remember", recalls some 26 stories survivors related to him personally and Eva Hart gives her own account of the events of April 14-15th, 1912. The Titanic tragedy represented, in its own right, the end of an era of arrogance and social discrimination in sea travel.

A film on Saint Teresa that leads us through an unnervingly authentic extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy. With the central image of the statue of Saint Teresa of Avila in Rome, together with glimpses of colour-saturated flower gardens, the Crucifixion and Baroque plasterwork, we listen to the gulping and frenetically clipped voice of the ‘saint’ pouring out her rapturous lament, attempting to express the unsayable. The film’s soundtrack combines a spoken voice by Nina Danino and performed vocals by New York experimental singer Shelley Hirsch.

A look back at the 1989/90 season of Tottenham Hotspur. Under the guidance of Terry Venables and with Gary Lineker joining Gazza in the squad it was sure to be exciting.

Mark Frith's documentary spends time with the Windermere crew, as they diligently respond to false alarm after false alarm, work their day jobs, and train hard to be ready for a serious incident.

A tongue-in-cheek look at the lifelong attempts of twin brothers Orville and Willbur Wrong - contemporaries of those other famous brothers - to become pioneers of aviation.

This four-channel video installation was shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture.

Two boys take an awayday in August, to Brighton to catch the last summer girls.

William Latham was a figure that dominated computer art and animation in the UK through his use of 'evolutionary' algorithms. Working at this time in partnership with an IBM scientific research centre, Latham aimed at remodelling the entire creative process, 'mutating' the most startling yet controlled virtual sculptures that had so far been seen. This sequence was released on home video formats as well as screened at festivals.

Take a trip into the fantastic cyber-world of Dr Devious with the third in the highly acclaimed series, featuring a kicking dance track and the very latest in computer graphics and animations.

A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community's Easter celebrations. Every day, Benito Reyes receives people at his house looking for all sorts of cures. Through his own testimony, this documentary looks at the healer's role as mediator between the social, natural and spiritual worlds. Curing someone or harvesting medicinal leaves, he must first seek permission from the plants he uses and from a variety of Saints. Like some plants and spirits, Benito has the power to extract the sickness and spells from his patients. A conjunction of sacred and profane, celebrating and mourning, Easter provides a rare opportunity to look at traditional faith healing in a wider social and religious context.

An ancient demonic entity is set loose on earth. It kills one by one, each death more brutal than the last.

Hand-drawn animation, set in a city at rush hour. We see and hear streets full of rush hour traffic and people. A woman walks through the city, her footsteps echoing on the pavement.

All children except one grow up. We all know this has to happen… I dont ever want to grow up, said Peter. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun!

John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.

Four five-minute segments on theme of motorbikes.

A couple singlehandedly try to save humankind and guard a mysterious metal case while being pursued by authoritarian figures.

Adapted as a movie release from the animated BBC television series, originally based on the books by Colin Dann. Re-dubbed, edited, and titled Journey Home: The Animals of Farthing Wood, for US release.

A look through the synthesizer museum and its old, rare, and often famous pieces.

What is the likelihood of both groups of pupils ending up in the same jobs, living in the same streets, and driving the same cars?" As we approach the end of the 20th century, what defines a person's class in modern Britain? Is it money, or breeding? To find out, Scene conducts a social experiment - inviting two pupils from a comprehensive school to swap places with two pupils from a public school. They will attend each other's classes, move in with each other's families, to get a sense of how how different or similar their experiences are. All four of these pupils see themselves as middle class. Despite seeing themselves as being in the same social class, 90% of the pupils attending the public school go on to third level education, compared with 20% from the comprehensive school. After a week, how different will the pupils find each others schools, homes and social lives? Will they still think they are middle class at the end of the experiment?

Imagine you had a gadget that let you travel to any point in history. Then imagine you could put together a bill of your favourite comedians, pop stars and even cartoon characters. That will give you some idea of this year's Children's Royal Variety Performance, An Adventure through Time.

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.

A profile of football legend Jimmy Greaves; interviewed by Brian Moore

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and volume) can be used to see the human figure as an object in three dimensional space.

The employees of The Beach Hotel plan to strike when they learn that the hotel is for sale. The manager and his secretary try to smooth things over with the staff and keep the business running normally while an executive arrives to give the hotel a once-over before his company considers buying. Throw an escaped lunatic with a grudge into the mix and one by one the employees are dispatched...or could the killer be someone else?

An award winning animation about endangered species.

Peter Cook plays four characters in his last major work. Alec Dunroonie (Scotland), Dr. Dieter Liedbetter (Germany), Major Titherly Glibble (England) and Bill Rossie (U.S.A.) all of whom are eccentric to say the least.

How could Quo top their fantastic 25th year? By staging the most spectacular and lunatic stunt ever. The Rock 'Til You Drop extravaganza took place on the 21st September 1991 across 4 venues; Sheffield Arena, Glasgow SECC, Birmingham NEC and finishing it off in Wembley Arena. The band started at the BBC TV centre doing a playback performance on 'Going Live' to kick off the day... They kicked off in Sheffield on stage around 2pm, then headed down to Glasgow were they arrived on stage 2 minutes late (4:32pm), 30 minutes late on stage in Birmingham (7:30pm) and when the band arrived at Wembley they was 50 minutes late! But that didn't stop the band from making a record of their own.

The Former Page Three sensation gets down and 'dirty' as she displays her world-famous assets, for the first time in two years, in a variety of glamerous settings.

This film is a meditation on the moon, on the moon and her mother, an elemental expression of chaos and poetic symmetry. Projected forwards and backwards, waxing and waning, it is a challenge to linear order and a homage to the feminine that rises up within me, to my mother and to the great mother. – P.W.

Robbie Williams performs live at The Forum on 3 June 1998

On the left side of this video diptych sequences of a typical Hollywood movie of the genre "airplane catastrophy" are showing, while on the right side a man liying in a bath tub talks about how he gradually came to terms with the actual trauma of such a catastrophy and his fear of water. Not only by the contrast of documentary interview and fictional processing of the same topic, but by the redundancies of sound and images between both "panels", telling itself and being told has come to the point.

Stop motion live action featuring a woman's insatiable appetite.

Scat the Stringalong Cat goes fishing, but only catches a boot, then another and another. 3 boots seems like an odd number until the owner, an octopus, turns up to clam them! With no dialogue the sound effects and music tell the story, set the mood and allow communication between the characters.

From Channel 4's 'Fourmations' series from the early 90s. This is an early computer animation from 1991. Don Quichotte fights a hoard of "giants."

We in the beauty business uphold one ideal to all - let's build her.

An animated short film.

Short film by Peter Strickland.

Smile, smile, smile - a witty and informal look at the life and times of the air hostess. Feature-film maker Chris Petit , of Radio On fame, turns his eye to the world of flying, "trolley-dollies", duty-free lives, emergency, sex and shopping. Cabin doors to manual! Welcome aboard!

A documentary about British composer Malcolm Arnold

British SOV crime/gore film

A spoof study of a Scottish Asian entrepreneur who runs a marriage bureau using video instructions. The film examines the problems of traditonal Asian values set in a British context.

To mark Purcell's Tercentary, Nicholas Kenyon investigates the achievements of one of England's greatest composers. Featuring Michael Chance, David Thomas, Mark Padmore, Sir Michael Tippett & Professor Curtis Price.

A mail order, shot-on-video short from Paul Shrimpton's 'Home Made Films'.

A young girl's life is changed by a gift that develops a special love for her, a love she only sees when it is destroyed by the jealousy of another.

An experimental portrait of a place, Scotland. You are looking for something. What you find is something else. "Stravaig / Errance" (Gaelic for wandering) is techno tourism of a personal nature. Forrest visits a Scotland that only she may show us. The artist is an informed tourist with a curious eye. The viewer is lead, but there is no sense that the artist holds to a definitive way to see/record. Travelogues are referenced in "Stravaig," but their form is never embraced. This is not tourism, but memory and sense. Forrest looks beyond the architecture and must see sights of the place(s) to unearth an ethereal essence of space/time.

Kennington to High Barnet via Charing Cross Finchley Central to Mill Hill East The Northern West End branch starts with our train heading south around the Kennington reversing loop. When we say you will see all of the Northern line on this one DVD that is what we mean. Running through the West End via Charing Cross and Tottenham Court Road, we see Camden Town once more but from a different perspective. Running into the open at East Finchley - a classic design of 1930s underground architecture we arrive at the terminus on the edge of Hertfordshire, High Barnet. Finally, you will see the Mill Hill East branch starting from Finchley Central, nowadays the only single line tube branch on the entire underground. All lines were filmed aboard brand new 1995 stock trains in bright weather using the latest digital cameras.

This compilation work uses Keen's drawing computer, screams and gunfire and proclaims ' enemy territory is outside the frame. Includes the titles 'Albino Ray', 'Grafico Blatz', 'Eye Blaze' and 'Grafico Blatz 2'.

Young Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler reached the landmark of 100 goals for his club in 1996. He reached this total in less matches than Anfield hero Ian Rush, making fans believe that he will become their best ever striker. All his goals in that record-breaking run are featured on this video.

A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous sanitised view of menstruation promoted by advertising. A dream life of angels. What wings really mean. The wise wound and its belly music. Desire is vulvic and creativity claims the calendar of bodies.

Documentary covering 24 hours in the life of Bristol, particularly focusing on the range of musical variety driven by its Afro-Caribbean inhabitants.

'The films I make are about my life and the people around me. I want to awaken the fearless self. A Skinny Man Attacked Daddy takes a look at the family and the place where I grew up. So much of what is 'me' comes from attitudes, expectations, fears, habits, beliefs that I inherited from my parents (and they in turn from theirs). The video is about separation form the family. My work is to try to know myself - the only way to change inherited patterns.' - Vivienne Dick

Experimental documentary on the children of navy personnel - a study of packing and unpacking, movement, loss and memory.

A gentle story of a woman who, though able to reverse time, is unable to undo her fate.

short by Guy Sherwin