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Second in the Tina trilogy of films (Tina Goes Shopping, Mischief Night) set on a tough Leeds housing estate and starring the residents who actually live there in real life. This time Tina is in prison and life on the estate is viewed through her children's eyes.
A tale of gossip and exaggeration in a small Scottish town.
Skateboarding is the ultimate Escape from Boredom. On this dvd we share many of the good times with you (and a couple of the bad) we've had around the globe in the last 18 months.
Bored and life getting you down? Nice Jam goes to show how something as simple as jam and toast can break the boredom of a dull and dismal day.
Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was a prominent literary critic of the late 20th century and a leading spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the US. Born to a Palestinian family in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1935, he and his family were dispossessed in 1948 and settled in Cairo. Educated in the US, he lived in New York for many years. Said was a member of the Palestine National Council. After resigning from the PNC in 1991, Said wrote critically about the post-Oslo peace process, the political failures of Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Said was diagnosed with leukemia in 1991 and struggled with the disease while continuing to write and teach. He stopped giving interviews but made an exception less than a year before his death in 2003, speaking about his illness, work, Palestine, politics, life, and education. The last interview is the final testament of this passionately committed intellectual.
A documentary essay which takes a very personal and idiosyncratic journey through Scottish history and identity, from the reformation of John Knox to the present day via the Industrial Revolution.
A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run.
Academic and broadcaster Lisa Jardine turns detective on her famous father, Jacob Bronowski. Through his personal and professional dilemmas she reveals the story of science in the 20th century, from Einstein to the atom bomb.
A documentary that goes inside the dark, witty, surreal world of cult English singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock.
Jack Dickson, successful Scottish screenwriter and novelist of gay fiction, has decided to take part in a stand-up comedy class for beginners. Will he overcome his fears of speaking in public and find out if he can really make people laugh...?
Renowned American playwright Arthur Miller discusses his life and work with Alan Yentob.
Documentary about 13-year-old Deborah Drapper, who, unlike other British teens has never heard of Britney Spears or Victoria Beckham. She has been brought up in a deeply Christian family and her parents have tried to make sure she and her ten brothers and sisters have grown up protected from the sins of the outside world. Deborah is a bright, confident girl who has big ambitions for her life and the film spends a summer with her as she ventures out in the world to see what life outside her family could be and starts putting her beliefs forward to a wider audience.
Coming to the rescue of some of Britain's hardest hit retailers, by providing sophisticated CCTV systems and top retail security experts to catch shoplifters red-handed.
I. Acoustics • I Think It's Going To Rain Today (Music And Lyrics Randy Newman) - Burg Rheinfels • Christmas Eve Burg Waldeck 2004 • Shadow Of The Moon • Queen For A Day • Under A Violet Moon II. Videos • The Times They Are A changin' (musiс and lyrics by Bob Dylan) • Way To Mandalay • Once In A Million Years • Hanging Tree - animation Michael Clark • Christmas Eve - Animation Michael Clark III. Documentaries • Blackmore's Night: The Story • Once Upon A Time: The Candice And Ritchie Story • Toir start: St. Goar 2004 • Hanging Tree: Making Music With Our Friends • "Schlossgeister": German TV Special • "Goldene Henne": German TV Appearance • "Fernsehgarten": German TV Appearance IV. Proclamations • Discography - Blackmore's Night • Biography - Candice Night • Biography - Ritchie Blackmore • Interview - Band & Members V. Special Bonus • Candice Night Private Movies
An intense and disturbing horror short film made in 2008 for the "CUT!" competition. British channel Zone Horror. The work explores the sinister atmosphere behind the production of a snuff film from the director's point of view. It was selected among the 10 finalists of the competition.
The daily life of the prison communities: backbreaking labour, brutality and abuse, relentless routines, gang warfare, and the constant struggle for survival. It will cast a new light on our contemporary system of imprisonment whilst revealing our changing attitudes to crime over the ages. In a time of credit crunch and economic crisis, Piers eye-opening exploration of debt will show how 300 years ago punishments did not necessarily fit the crime.
Princess of the petrified, Yvette Fielding, is joined on a ghost hunt at the foot of the North Wales hills by girl group Girls Aloud. Tales of evil entities and trapped spirits pervade to ensure a bumpy night for our brave girls. What shocks await as the spooks and ghouls announce their presence and chill the girls to the bone? Who will succumb to the metal anguish brought on by the fear of the unknown?
One man proves in a very physical way that it is very important to love people
Documentary about the music of Billy Childish and his bands, The Musicians Of The British Empire, and Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers
As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4s shorts strand. The four films premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled, Anna, Helen, David and Lester, they are a series of portraits of four diverse individuals brought together through a shared residence – a flat in a Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow. Composer: Taku Unami
Rave Against the Machine tells the tragic and uplifting story of a troubled group of young musicians who strove to keep their sanity during the four year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Ducking and twisting to avoid shellfire and snipers bullets, the film colorfully describes the music they made; parties they organized and the radio they broadcast.
"The story of Villa Road, a squatted street, during the heyday of squatting in the late 1970s, when all over the country people lived together in politicised communities. These squatters were on the left, and were part of a generation whose views were underwritten by Marxist ideology. They believed that the revolution was coming and the state would be overthrown."
Performed live in front of 15,000 fans at London's 02 Arena, Cliff and The Shadows' 50th anniversary show The Final Reunion recreates the spectacular magic of some of their biggest hits, chart-toppers and unforgettable favourites, including Living Doll, Move It and Apache. Sitt back and enjoy the music that changed the face of British Rock 'N' Roll Forever! An On The Box production.
In this Under Review we look at the genius of Syd Barrett.
Dramatised documentary about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by armed police officers at Stockwell tube station in London after he was mistaken for a terrorist suspect.
A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run.
Between The Trees follows the story of two ambitious men as they journey through the forest of Fontainebleau. The highs and the lows; the successful tries and the failed goes. This organic tale, filmed over two months, mirrors the simplicity of the sport of bouldering, in what is widely considered the best destination for it in the world. Join Tyler Landman and Keith Bradbury between the trees as Unclesomebody fuses two of his favorite elements, sandstone and bouldering. Featuring a selection of the best elements of the forest, from the classics, to the moderates, to the hidden gems, to the most difficult, Between The Trees will have something for everyone including a bit of tongue in cheek Brit humor.
Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here you have a chance to relive some of the great trains of the past, featuring a visit to Perth Shed and trains at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Tranquil video reveries by veteran Dwoskin surrounding visits to his house.
The epic plot saw Sandra fall into a coma, prompting the rest of the original team (joined by George and Sandra’s children) to set off to Azerbaijan to fulfill her dream of helping an orphanage there.
The story of Liz Niven, writer in residence at Inverness Airport as she embarks on a poetic journey through the Highlands and Islands bringing poetry to the unlikeliest of places.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service public information film, which features a man, made completely of molten rock and fire talk to the audience against a smoky black background.
A thoroughly modern geisha gets ready for a fun night out. This is the first episode of a (never completed!) series of short animations featuring the characters who appear in artist Lisa Milroy’s paintings. These depict the exploits of a group of geishas who think pleasure is more important than duty.
Critical review of the music of the Electric Light Orchestra during the Roy Wood era. Features highlights from tracks including '10538 Overture', 'Jeff's Boogie 2', 'Queen of the Hours' and 'Ball Park Incident'. The Independent biography traces the foundations of the band through its metamorphosis from The Move in 1970 and later to the point where Roy Wood quit the group leaving Jeff Lynne to steer the band in to worldwide stardom. Narrated throughout by a team of music journalists and musicians. Also included are a bonus live set filmed in 1972 originally called Granada's Set of Six and features four of the six songs, These songs are the only known live original Roy Wood ELO tracks ever filmed. The DVD was originally released in 2005 under the title Inside the Electric Light Orchestra 1970–1973 minus the bonus live tracks.
A married couple on a road trip discover they're not quite where they intended to be...
On release from prison, a young boys' attempt to redeem himself into society.
'Nobody Someday' is an intimate, no-holds barred documentary of life on tour with Robbie. Robbie said to filmmaker Brian Hill that nothing was off limits to camera. The result is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to travel on tour bus after tour bus, jump on stages (and sometimes unwittingly off them), belt out the hits, play some cards and orally satisfy fifteen thousand screaming fans a night!
The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Live at Hampton Court Palace is a live album from the English keyboardist and composer Rick Wakeman, released through Eagle Records on 5 October 2009. The album is a live recording of the second of two sold-out concerts on 2 May 2009 at Hampton Court Palace in London. It documents the first live performances of Wakeman's 1973 instrumental concept album The Six Wives of Henry VIII in its entirety, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne. Wakeman performs with his band, The English Rock Ensemble, the Orchestra Europa and the English Chamber Choir.
Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of 20th-century English music.
Dick & Dom have been clearing out their dirty bungalow, and have found loads of brilliant bits from their last series (especially under the sofa and dried into the carpet) just for you! 'The Dirty Norris Files' is stuffed full of all your favorite clips from Series 3, including the Diddies, creamy muck muck fights and best of all BOGIES!
Changing Faces is a classic tale of good versus evil. Somewhere in Africa flighty journalist Lola exchanges spirits with buttoned down business man Dale, but only one of them wants to go back to the way things have always been.
Documentary about the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past. 78-year-old Ruth has promised her beloved estate to one of her twin daughters, with whom she has lived for the past 35 years. As tensions mount, Ruth flees to France into the arms of her other, estranged daughter. Ruth's granddaughter Elizabeth documents the struggle, unaware of the dark secrets that lie within the house's walls, as Ruth's turbulent journey sees the unravelling of a family consumed by the legacy of silence and denial. (Storyville)
Alan Yentob meets the Turner Prize winning artists Gilbert & George at home. Over the last 40 years, British artists Gilbert and George have fascinated, outraged, delighted and confounded the art establishment. Since their first appearance as 'living sculptures' in the late 1960s, their work has persistently taken a provocative, often uncomfortable look at both their own lives and the life of the city that continues to inspire their art - London.
On 14 November 1940 the German Luftwaffe dropped so many bombs on Coventry that three guarters of the city was destroyed. Such was the devastation, the Germans coined a term to describe it - "to coventrate". This documentary explores the immediate aftermath of the attack, as panic gripped the city and half the population fled. But it also charts Coventry's remarkably rapid revival, and its role in the eventual "coventration" of Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin, that would ultimately bring Germany to its knees.
Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
Fairytale of Kathmandu is a 2007 documentary by Neasa Ní Chianáin. The documentary focused on visits by the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh to Nepal during which he had close relationships with many young boys of 16 years old or younger. The documentary questioned whether Ó Searcaigh's relationships with these youths were exploitative and whether they demonstrated a power and wealth imbalance between the 50 year old Ó Searcaigh and the young Nepalese. Ó Searcaigh is presented in the documentary as paying for the housing, food, bicycles and clothing of boys at most 16 years old. He mentions on camera having sex with some of them, denying that he abused them or that he coerced them into having sex with him.
The Cribs are a band from Wakefield in Britain, consisting of three brothers Gary, Ross and Ryan. This film documents the process of writing and recording their fourth album "Ignore The Ignorant" in Oregon and Los Angeles, whilst also incorporating the addition of legendary guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths and Electronic among many others) into their line-up.
Hang Time follows Kwame, a promising basketball player who, desperate to provide for his grandmother and sister and obtain a contract in America, accepts a risky proposal.
Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to the decline after independence.
A half-hour special designed to generate awareness and high interest in ABC's six-hour mega-series event: Dinotopia, premiering Sunday May 12, 2002
A documentary about the chart-topping band Hear'Say, shown close to the end of 2001, just before the band's brief reign at the top was derailed by Kym's shock departure
One of Britain's premier expresses, The Flying Scotsman completed the 393 miles from King's Cross to Edinburgh in just over four hours - an average speed of 94.3 miles an hour! Highlights Part One includes the exit from King's Cross with the various tunnels, the infamous Welwyn bottleneck, which brings the ECML down to just two tracks, the Newark flat crossing, (the last in the UK) the Selby new line, and Stoke bank, where "Mallard" achieved the world speed record for steam traction. We even take a look inside the A4 engine housed within the National Railway Museum at York. Part Two covers the second leg from York to Edinburgh calling only at Newcastle. Highlights include: Darlington Bank Top avoiding line, the approach to Newcastle - crossing the mighty River Tyne, the notorious curve at Morpeth, the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick, the scenic coastal sections and the approach to Edinburgh Waverley itself.
A mockumentary about Paul Roberts who is found sleeping rough on a mattress struggling with his music career after leaving his band The Stranglers after 16 years.
Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci may be best known for his paintings, but engineers consider him just as much a genius for the machines he designed that were years ahead of their time. This film narrated by Richard Denton documents the attempts of modern experts to build some of da Vinci's designs, including a massive crossbow with arms 70 feet across and a glider that he imagined more than four centuries before humans first took flight.
Examines what is going on in the British sex industry, where new male actors are lining up to do a job without getting paid.
The documentary about the making of the critically acclaimed British TV sequel series to the show Life on Mars, featuring behind the scenes interviews with the cast and crew, ahead of the final season.
The Inspirator is an installation that incorporates projected video, a mirrored fountain and glitter ball/s. The filmed image is of someone dressed as a panda playing the trumpet in the forest. He bursts from a glittery explosion to play his badly synched performance for a few minutes before turning to retreat into the forest bubble. The footage repeats itself on a continuous loop. The footage is projected into a masked circular frame cut at the top and bottom by the wall's limits and the room is painted dark green outside this projected area. The fountain is filled with running water, the sound of which is amplified through speakers that are built into its sides, adding another layer to the installation's sound. The film's soundtrack was produced specially by Matty Skylab.
In this tribute to the late greats Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a frankly large collection of some of their best bits. 1965 saw Pete and Dud in a new show NOT ONLY BUT ALSO and their now classic act was an irresistible combination of scripted and seemingly improvised sketches, where corpsing and ad-libs were an integral part of their often bizarre entertainment. Highlights include: the cloth-capped 'Dagenham Dialogues,' 'Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling,' '5-4-3-2-1...,' 'The Superthunderstingraycars,' 'the Leaping Nuns,' 'The Gliddof Glood,' 'Bo Dudley' and 'Goodbyee song'
For the first time on DVD, Terry Chimes fills in the story of the birth of punk. Essential viewing for every Clash fan, this incisive film features long-serving road manager and author Johnny Green who reveals the philosophy and the spirit which drove the band. Drawing on extensive footage of the Clash in performance as well as previously unseen drawings and cartoons by the legendary Ray Lowry, this is as close as you¹ll ever get to being there.