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Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading of one of the most popular operas. Kaufmann uses his burnished tenor and smouldering good looks to portray the man undone by Carmen's love. As the object of his desire, Antonacci gives a physical and compelling performance.
Three migrant women introduce the objects they brought from their home countries.
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, and a cast which includes Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, and Lisa Milne.
Over the past 4 years, Westlife have performed to over 3 million fans, making them the biggest selling arena tour act ever. In February of this year they embarked on their 5th sell-out arena tour, The Number 1’s Tour, and now fans can re-live the energy and excitement of that tour when it becomes available to own on DVD. Filmed at Sheffield Arena on Friday 18th March 2005, the show lives up to the reputation of the charged, action-packed performances that have become synonymous with Westlife. The Number 1’s Tour is an extravagant spectacle of impressive costume design and staging, along with spectacular pyrotechnics, resulting in a unique visual experience that takes the live show to a whole new level.
Little did Michael Watson know that when he stepped into the ring on 21 September 1991 to fight Chris Eubank for the World Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight title, it was a fight that would nearly cost him his life. Ten years on, Fighting Back: The Michael Watson Story, tells of his remarkable recovery from the brink of death and features his first public meeting with Eubank.
Video: Caribbean Blue - The Making Of (documentary footage) From the Album The Very Best Of Enya (Deluxe Video Edition)
Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here a bevvy of beautiful locomotives take the enthusiast back in time, including a journey from Ryde to Ventnor and the chance to take a spin on the Cumbrian Coast Express.
In 2020 global travel is simple. Step into a matter transporter in one time zone and arrive seconds later in another. But this apparent golden age of travel without boundaries has its shadow side. And when the system malfunctions, one man discovers the dark truth behind the corporate facade. Written by Simon Bovey
A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.
A man awakens to find himself tied naked to a chair in a dark basement. His captors introduce themselves as a duo of deranged sadists who have targeted him at random as their next victim and that he is to be tortured and eventually killed. Their captive is surprisingly calm considering his predicament and soon reveals himself to be a fugitive on the run for similar crimes. He even offers to join forces with his captors and demostrate his own methods of pain infliction on a fresh victim. A battle of loyalties ensues between the three men as the victim plays on his captors differences. Is he the psychopath he claims to be or does he have another agenda?
Documentary which captures the extraordinary passions unleashed by the 1984 miners' strike and examines how it changed Britain forever. Mining villages were consumed by violence and hatred as pickets fought running battles with police and striking and working miners were locked in confrontation.
An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things 'off". Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.
An eleven-year-old girl, living in Edinburgh, Scotland, hates her Christian name, Kylie. She prefers to be called "Morticia" And she wants a real Dad she can identify with. She wants Dracula...and she wants to be a vampire.
Mexican feature film
The early morning light of a new day in a fishing village in Cornwall symbolizes an awakening in oneself - a remembering of who one is and who one can be.
Inspired by the overwhelming force of 2G and the ensuing befuddlement, the work might be read as a tongue-in-cheek homage to Yuri Gagarin, the people of Star City and the pioneering artists who attempted to create work on a plunging aircraft. Kötting provides an insight into the madness of experimentation in the extreme environment of a zero gravity flight on a Russian military base, where Gagarin’s face smiles down at you from almost every building. A wobbly B-film rocket follows a similar trajectory to the parabolic flight path, reaching for the stars before plummeting nose cone first back into the hard Earth, echoing the Russian’s more brutal approach to re-entry landings than the NASA ocean splashdowns. The rocket’s flight links a kaleidoscope of grainy archive images from Moscow, Star City and the parabolic flight on which Kotting participated. The film was also commissioned by The Cornerhouse for projection on a large outdoor screen in Manchester in 2005.
A look at naturism in France.
Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.
A profile of one of modern football's most talented and charismatic players, French striker Thierry Henry. From playing with AS Monaco, Juventus through to Arsenal and, more recently, and FC Barcelona, Henry has proved himself a living legend of the 'beautiful game'.
A single mother turns to prostitution to provide for her young son, but her actions only drive them further apart.
A magical love story is carried by breathtaking dance routines with dancer's tapping an incredible 40-taps per second. These explosive tap sequences and highly refined footwork create a melodic and rhythmical performance that generates audience interaction with the international renowned dancers of Irish and American tap.The charm and excitement of Irish music is brought to life by traditional and modern dancing that tells an authentic love story filled with passion and emotion.Set in early 20th century Ireland, a couple meet but are torn apart by a country plagued with famine and mystical demons. Separated, the two spend years in search of one and other, and a better life. Despite losing almost everything, they persevere knowing their music, dancing, and passion cannot be taken from them. Their search for each other takes them on a journey filled with excitement and adventure that finally unite the two in a spectacular grand finale.
A short film about the game of dominoes.
The fate of the RMS Titanic - the 'unsinkable' ship that never completed its maiden voyage - has enthralled us all for over a hundred years. Her power to captivate the world has only grown with every year she has lain on the seabed, so tantilizingly out of reach. Now, join a voyage of discovery as one man sets out to see the wreck of RMS Titanic with his own eyes. The result is a unique film that show the enduring passion for the Titanic story, the enormous challenges that must be conquered in order to visit the site and the amazing remains that still lie on the ocean floor, waiting for those brave and dedicated enough to make the long journey down.
You're invited to the celebration on the Island of Sodor! There are new stories and fun adventures around every bend. Watch as Thomas wins a medal for saving the day. Will Edward rescue the brass band in time? Can Peter Sam help find a new refreshment stand for the Refreshment Lady? Get ready for non-stop fun when Rheneas gives the school children a roller coaster ride on the tracks and Gordon wins the best-dressed competition. Let the celebration begin!
Short about a chinese woman living in Wales.
Rajesh has had enough, and he's decided; he's going to drive his taxi into the Bombay night. The first place where day light breaks is where he's going to stop. He's not quite sure what he's doing, but with a little help Rocky and Niramala can make him smile...
Trevor Nelson presents Beyonce and her band, who perform a special concert at the front of Television Centre. Songs played: Deja Vu, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Destiny's Child, Medley, Ring the Alarm, Irreplaceable and Crazy in Love.
In crystal clear sound and vision, the TV comedian reveals the inside story on how he upset the U.S secret service by putting a bounty on the life of President Bush. Mark also displays how he obtained police surveillance images of himself.
James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Meccano, Lego, Scalextric and Airfix. James's all-time number one is the train set.
An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers the Muslim hibab and burka.
One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt.
Berlin is a place that is indispensable to the imagination, a city where history ticks all the boxes. The longest of all the helter-skelter rides that Berliners have taken through the playground of history ended in 1989 when the Berlin Wall shattered into a million souvenirs. Hundreds of people, mainly young, were killed there trying to escape to the West. The people who built the Wall thought they were building a brave new socialist world. But their dream turned into a nightmare as over time the Wall poisoned, corrupted and brutalized the little world it encircled. In The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall, the dreams and nightmares come dramatically back to life as the spies, informers, double agents and interrogators of Cold War Berlin weave their nervy spells of double lives and double dealing.
The Victoria Line is London’s busiest underground line. 15 out of the 16 stations provide interchange with other underground lines or Network Rail. The 1967 stock trains were filmed in their last few years of service in 2009. These were the first fully automatic trains in London running on the Victoria line which was opened in stages from Walthamstow in East London. The whole line is seen in virtually real time from the operator’s cab with the aid of additional lighting. This is more than a Driver’s eye view, for we also follow the progress of our southbound train on the track diagrams of the service control centre, we see inside all the stations with their famous tiled murals, the exteriors of many and of course the operator himself.
An intimate and uncompromising portrayal, filmed over a year, of the day to day struggles of a new generation of children addicted to heroin, trying to find their way in the new Afghanistan.
News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later. It was one of the boldest business ventures ever attempted by the far left and it was a disaster. A group who met through a tiny left-wing faction called Big Flame were convinced it was possible to market a left-wing mass-circulation newspaper. They were led by ex-Ford worker Alan Hayling (now head of BBC Documentaries) under the editorial leadership of John Pilger, who walked out before the paper had even launched.
An essay film occupying the ground between narrative, documentary and experimental film-making. It is a work of fragmented histories: of the catastrophes of empire, war, terror and resistance of our times. Its unseen narrator 'encounters' the inhabitants of an undisclosed port city in old Europe as they stroll along a jetty in the melancholy fading light of evening. These meetings are with terrorists, philosophers, writers, photographers, shopkeepers whose subjective accounts and conjecture create a rupture within twentieth century history and beyond.
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Tony Robinson examines the claims made in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code."
Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.
The Second Doctor has been partially regenerated by the Time Lords as punishment for breaking the non-interference policy, but the process is stopped halfway, leaving the Doctor an amalgam of his second and as-of-yet future incarnation...
She Said He Walks, He Said She Walks (2008) is nostalgia, bitter love and postures encapsulated in a skilled short film by Dominican Nelson Carlo de los Santos. Presents a resounding account of a relationship, subject to contemplation of four minutes. Sleazy love disoriented by the wandering wanderings of what was wanted and felt, within a complaint about the industrialized and prefabricated image that pollutes the natural feeling.
A severely injured man lies in the snow-capped mountains; the next settlement which could offer warmth and shelter from the wind and snow is too far to reach on foot. In a flashback, the dying man relives the last year of his life - a life full of adventure, danger and his daily struggle to survive in a harsh and frightening world.
A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977).
A look by Sheena McDonald at how ordinary people come to do horrible things. This is a politics lesson based on history and psychology.
Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60's Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary '14 hour Technicolor Dream' extravaganza in April '67 at Alexandra Palace.
The most dangerous journey needs a helping hand.
In the meeting place of two oceans in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait, photographers capture the majestic, otherworldly creatures living below the surface.
Peter Kay's hilarious stand up show. This is a live recording of his show in Blackpool which is one of the fastest selling comedy titles ever. Filmed in front of a packed, partisan crowd, Live At The Top Of The Tower is the freshest most hilarious stand up show from the country's funniest new comedian.
Keith Reynolds is excited about Promotion Day, for it will finally make him a success and win the attention of Sarah. But things don't quite go as planned in English director Felix Massie's debut film.
"Richard the Lionheart", King of England was one of the greatest warriors of his age. After a declaration from the Pope to recapture the Holy Land, Richard takes on the biggest challenge of his life by agreeing to lead a coalition army to win back these sacred lands and take back the city of Jerusalem in the name of God.
Russell revisits the life of composer Edward Elgar, using his own music as the score and featuring evocative, visually rich scenes, often set in the Malvern Hills where Elgar grew up.
An early history of the UK anarcho-punk movement told by some of the most influential performers including interviews and performances with bands such as Crass, Conflict, Subhumans, Liberty, Toxic Waste,Chumbawamba, Sacrilege & many more.
With David Beckham looking uncertain for the 2002 World Cup finals after his clash with Argentinean Aldo Duscher, this documentary charts the explosive 35 year feud between their two nations, when football became war by another means.
Ten years after he stepped to power as Labour leader, Tony Blair remains a national enigma. His persona as a fresh-faced idealist and man of the people has been shattered, most significantly by the war on Iraq. Now many are struggling to understand what remains behind the faltering smile.
A special feature-length episode of the television series adapted from the book by Jacqueline Wilson. Follow Ellie, Magda and Nadine on a series of life lessons that will touch the heart of every girl in love.
The life of Casanova as told through the love letters he sent and received, which were found in the castle of Duchov where he died. The loves, hates, fortune and misfortune of the great lover who, among other things, invented the French national lottery, spied, and fought duels. A confidante of kings (and queens) who ended up hating what he had become.
First part of the documentary series, The History Of Iron Maiden, featuring an exhaustive, thoroughly complete history of the early years of Iron Maiden, from their humble beginnings in London's East End in 1975 through their triumphant Piece Of Mind album and tour in 1983. The set features a large collection of rare videos and concert footage, as well as interviews with former members such as Paul Di'Anno, Clive Burr, Dennis Stratton, Dave Sullivan, Terry Rance, Kent Ewing, Doug Sampson, Ron Matthews, Terry Wapram and Bob Sawyer.
Live performance from the Irish songster, combining his unique Irish ballad sound with classic rock 'n' roll music, recorded during his tour of the UK and Ireland.