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Sergey Bodrov's film tells about the tour of the band "Tiger Lilies", which covers 5 countries, including Russia. We tried to show the band's impressions of our country, to tell about the musicians' love for visual effects, thanks to which cinematography and music come together. The film honestly and impartially tells about the band, about its work on stage and behind the stage, praises and recognizes the power of art.
Twelve top glamour models spent time in Tenerife learning to box in a grueling 'Boxing Boot Camp'. The result of weeks of blood, sweat and a lot of tears was six bouts of boxing as the girls went head-to-head in front of a packed London crowd.
A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. Krapp's Last Tape is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory. A television relay of the 2006 Royal Court Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's critically acclaimed play, starring Harold Pinter.
Divided by the stunning and vast expanse of water that is London’s River Thames, a young pair of shy beachcombers are united by their fixation with metal detecting in search of rare antiquities. They soon strike up a sweet and unique connection across the water and build up a language of signs and signals with which they are able communicate daily. But when one of the pair stumbles across a chance discovery, it gives them the ideal opportunity to finally cross over the river.
The Return of the Spice Girls Tour was the third concert tour by the British girl group the Spice Girls. This tour marked the group's first tour since Christmas in Spiceworld in 1999 and the first as the original five-piece since May 1998, during the Spiceworld Tour.
A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the North Koreans upset Italy, 1-0.
Run Wrake is an English filmmaker, animation director, and music video director. He studied graphic design at Chelsea College of Arts before completing a master's degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London. In this interview for the BBC's Channel 4, he describes some of his films, their inception, and their production. He also comments on technological and cultural developments that have changed how animated films are produced and perceived.
In the days leading up to Christmas, Toot visits his Aunt Peg to celebrate her 100th birthday, while Puddle stays home with their young cousin Opal to get ready for Christmas.
Drama about a woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store who becomes seduced by the opulent lives of her clients, with devastating consequences.
It follows Michael's life from joining Wham! in 1981, to the present-day covering his career as a solo artist including personal and professional gain and loss. The film is a British venture produced by Aegean Films with Gorilla Entertainment Limited serving as distributor.
Brought to the station after nicking some sweets, a waifish Eastern European girl refuses to give even her name. What starts out as a simple case of shoplifting turns into apparent murder, however, after Davies finds the girl's mother strangled. The trail leads to some surprising suspects from a video matchmaking service.
On 8th September 2003, David Bowie made history at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London, with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world had seen to that point. The special one-off live concert – where Bowie and his band performed the brand new "Reality" album in full – was beamed simultaneously to fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries, from Hong Kong to Helsinki.
Multiple award winning ‘Times’ journalist and ex Conservative MP Matthew Parris spends six months on Kerguelen, the world’s most remote island.
The Agent goes up against international assassins while trying to save the world from an evil criminal madman.
The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's pickled private parts.
A documentary about the seventh series of Red Dwarf (1997).
Tourettes is the first KillCity video. It showcasts the team talent and lust for skateboarding over a collection of road trips, demos, and tours. Filmed on location throughout the UK, Ireland and Spain.
A short drama about the stigma and shame surrounding mental illness in an Asian family
Documentary looking at the evolution of motoring programs shown on British TV from 'Wheelbase' in the 1960s through to 'Top Gear' in the 2000s.
A man is held captive and threatened and mentally tortured by his captors. An anxious boardroom gathers to watch the resulting hostage tape; the tension mounts as it draws to its inevitable, traumatic conclusion... But events are even more sinister than they initially appear. 2009 Audience Winner at the Portobello Film and Video Festival
Vicki is upset, she has been dumped by her boyfriend just when she thought her life was going somewhere but she will find comfort in the kindness of a stranger with a bag of jelly babies who believes 'a lot of life's troubles can melt away if you sit back and chew on a jelly baby'.
A look back over Madonna's career from a British perspective.
Johnny YesNo – Redux reunites Cabaret Voltaire and Peter Care almost 30 years later with a completely new cast, a relocation to LA and an entirely new soundtrack remixed by Richard H. Kirk, the film has lost none of its hallucinatory power. The short goes deep into the structure of Peter Care’s original film and the Cabaret Voltaire tracks used in connection with it. What emerges is as much a juxtaposition of times and places as sights and sounds. The tale changes in the retelling, but that change now seems to be taking place on a molecular level. Richard H Kirk has reconfigured the film’s soundtrack, giving the proceedings an ominous sense of something slowly sliding into view from afar, glimpsed out of the corner of the eye.
A documentary film about the wonderful world of intimate videos of celebrities. The program is replete with interesting interviews, traces the history of this phenomenon and reveals the obvious fakes and hoaxes diffrent mistifications of disputed origins.
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this conflict.
Ross Noble live at Newcastle City Hall in 2005
Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part series of video recordings that relate personal experiences to the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel/Palestine. In these works, which play upon chance and coincidence, hotel rooms are employed as 'found' film sets, where architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker’s small adventures are linked to major world events.
Pigeons and squirrels might not be the only animals populating the streets of London.
The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. In this episode the same characters go on a treasure hunt, and end up with their car being washed out to sea on a beach. Marcus (a businessman who deals with Dave's company) first appears in this episode.
This documentary is about the subject of casual sex. She shows that in the connected world it has never been easier to have no-strings-attached sex and shows some people who practice this no-strings-attached sex.
Joss, Kat, Sam & Charlie visit the naturist resort of Arnaoutchot in France.
Police must track down the sadistic duo responsible for the rape, torture and murder of 10 women in the Hollywood Hills above LA. The case that drove homicide detective Bob Grogan to drink and divorce resulted in the longest trial in American history.
Sir Bobby Robson was a national and international hero whose roots were firmly planted in the coalfields of North East England. His success was based upon his ability to communicate his passion and enthusiasm to those around him. In what became his final filmed interview he looked back on his childhood in County Durham, his love of music and his phenomenal sporting achievements. He also talks about his final great project, The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
A group of professional skateboarders and their friends take part in the Gumball 3000 rally, an 8 day race around the world from London to Los Angeles.
Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, 'The Edge of Destruction'. It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.
One-off documentary in which Britain's best-known magician tries to hit the big time in the United States. Beginning in Illinois, Daniels must rely on the skills acquired during 30 years of performing to build a new career in just four weeks. Narrated by Graham Norton.
Max buys a rundown hotel by the sea, a final attempt to make a new life. Frank, his son and proud soldier comes to visit, secretly hoping to share Max's dream but finds his father in a more decrepit state than the hotel.
A 25-minute animated film without words based on the picture book by Peter Collington. The traditional nativity characters feature in the story but the setting is contemporary and the plot, touching and original.
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
A light-hearted but revealing profile of the 2006 British Eurovision representative.
Spoof documentary directed by and starring musician/comedian Graham Fellows. Armed only with a handicam and his nerdy inquisitiveness, Sheffield's least fashionable singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth (Fellows) travels to Jersey to discover just how soft it really is down south.
A young transgender woman rejected by her family in India, lives alone in London, working as a prostitute to pay for hormone therapy. Aleem Khan’s remarkable short film is set in 1997 in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – whose loneliness and isolation our protagonist can identify with only too well. On this extraordinary day, she prepares to set herself free.
The Park Ambassador is a figure of abstract authority. A totemic presence, he remains rooted while people pass and light changes dramatically around him. He seems to affect these changes by his powerful presence.
Created as "disposable art" circa 1830, the woodblock print of "The Great Wave" by 70-year-old Katsushika Hokusai has earned acclaim and a place of honor in the art world. Scholars and critics discuss the work's creation and wide influence.
A short film from Toby Haynes.
A young Lithuanian brother and sister find themselves on a road trip across the east of England in an attempt to see their favorite football team play in Norwich City. With no money they ride their luck through an unfamiliar land by any means necessary, laying their fate at the people they meet along the way. Will the love of the game be enough to see them through to the Brother's goal?
To mark the twentieth anniversary of "Around the World in 80 Days" we went back to Dubai and India to retrace our steps and to see if we could find any of the crew of Al Shama. The result was a one-hour documentary and an account of our return and a whole stack of new pictures. Now they join all my other traveller's tales.
Featuring a wealth of performance clips, archival footage and testimonials from friends, peers and experts, this fascinating documentary explores the legendary collaboration between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Focusing on the period of work that began with "Revolver" and ended with "Abbey Road," this feature chronicles the duo's efforts, from the writing to the recording, and examines the impact their partnership had on the world at large.
Documentary in which, over two months, 41-year-old single mum Nicky Taylor tries a huge variety of anti-aging treatments in a bid to turn back the clock. She even looks at what plastic surgery, both here and abroad, could do for her.
Once a renowned conductor and musician, Clive was struck down in 1985 by a virus that caused massive damage to his brain. Against the odds, doctors managed to save his life but he was left with a memory that spans just a few seconds.
Ten years after the Srebrenica massacre, Leslie Woodhead follows up his award-winning A Cry from the Grave to investigate what has happened since.
A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963).
Stand-up comedian Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years, from WWI through to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, this show places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand.
A film about form, sound and space: un-gestural.
Documentary about the 18-year odyssey of a group of enthusiasts who set out to build a brand new mainline steam engine from scratch in 1990.