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Munich: Mossad's Revenge is a documentary produced by Atlantic Productions and aired on Channel 4 in Britain concerning Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli assassination campaign that was organized in response to the Munich Massacre. The documentary includes interviews with many of the agents involved in the operation.
Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic. Twenty-one dancers play a game of cat and mouse with an unpredictable camera. Disoriented, the viewer is fixed by the gaze of dancers who crowd the frame. …On the one hand this is like looking at a group of aliens who have never seen anything like the camera (or you) before. The concentration of the faces on what is before them takes away their self-consciousness, and like a series of Thomas Ruff portraits they have an unsettling air of insouciance. But ultimately, the thought one is drawn to, and the allegory the title suggests, concern the contemporary obsession with becoming visible through some sort of brush with celebrity, however brief, demeaning or meaningless that might be.
Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Shot in Glasgow University Library, this film explores how individuals use a communal space. It comprises interior footage of the library, contrasting deserted aisles and close-ups of shelves of books with shots of students engrossed in studying and using library facilities including computers, keyboards and lifts. By unobtrusively filming students and editing the film rhythmically like a piece of music, Nashashibi highlights the routines and patterns behind our everyday activities, which would usually go unnoticed. The film runs to around seven minutes long and has no dialogue or music, only background noise. - Nationalgalleries.org
Every Motocross rider falls off. It’s just a question of how often which separates the men from the boys! Even world champions are not exempt as we experience 300 crashes, smashes and wipeouts from the spectacular to the slightly sad. It’s not surprising there’s a lot of coming together when 50 bikes head off for the same 10 metres of track at the first corner! Watch the mayhem on the beach as the riders wilt under the energy-sapping conditions – but at least there’s a soft landing, unlike those bumpy, stony motocross circuits where we see bruising, bone-crunching and sometimes very funny action. There’s some heart-stopping moments, too as riders bale out in mid-air hoping for a landing which doesn’t damage the bike. Nobody gets seriously hurt. Still, better not let your Mum see this one!
A modern, functional dwelling in a stunning, secure location; pefect for young families or busy professionals. But The Plot is not what it seems.
Dallas Graffe is called to investigate a series of grisly murders. It soon becomes a race against time when the murderer invades the local hospital and isn't entirely what they expected.
This is the ultimate tribute to David Bowie, the essential music of Bowie arranged for grand piano and string quartet. Featured here are the musical highlights from Bowie's career from 1969-1990 featuring the entire spectrum of Bowie classics from 'A Space Oddity' to 'Let's Dance'.
A short film about high diving.
Recall the edge-of-the-seat World Rally Championship battle between Colin McRae and Richard Burns, the late, great British rally legends. This was one of the classic WRC seasons, and now you can enjoy action from every single one of the 14 scintillating rounds. The year featured a thrilling season-long battle that saw the two British greats go into the last event for a head-to-head finale on home soil. The Official Review of the 2001 WRC season is packed with high speed action from every single round, as the finest rally drivers on Earth battle with unforgiving terrain, terrible weather - and each other - for championship glory. Follow the drama from the excitement of Monte Carlo right through to the incredible showdown in the mud of Wales as Brits McRae and Burns chased the biggest prize in rallying.
Barry Sheene MBE was probably the most famous two-wheeled star to have ever come out of Britain. The cheeky cockney was an inspiration to millions. There were other British champions who achieved more on the track, but the articulate, witty and confident 'Bazza' brought his successes to the attention of the British public, and they took him to their hearts. He was equally famous for overcoming his numerous crashes, at one time he had metal plates in both knees, 28 screws in his legs and a bolt in his left wrist!
An imminent job interview offers hope, but will the questions raised help the interviewee to move on or drive her further into her trouble-filled past.
Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series. Here we see the best of French steam, the route from Helsinki to the Artic Circle, and the famous Orient Express from Paris to Athens.
The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures. The documentary reveals the most unknown aspects of the vegetable kingdom. We learn about the secret of the eternal youth of a 3500 years old sequoia and be charmed by the 'rafflesia arnoldi' flowers, able to reach up to one meter of diameter.
Two lads, two trannies and two high-class hookers in a Soho rickshaw. Fasten your seat-belts it's gonna be a bumpy night.
Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predicted to run dry in the next forty years. Shooting on 16mm film, using time lapse and long exposure techniques, the film presents a record of industrial phenomena, – the toxic beauty of the refinery at Grangemouth, huge drilling platforms gliding across the water as they come in for maintenance and repair at Nigg and the last dance of the shipbuilding cranes in Glasgow harbour.
Dancing patterns struggling to focus on an object
One of the three microshorts which inspired 'Jojo in the Stars'
"Oh, Well, That's The End Of The Band…" - A short film documenting the personal and professional aftermath of Alan Wilder's decision to leave Depeche Mode; the story of the fledgling attempts to get the band recording again, and the tale of Dave Gahan's descent toward 'rock bottom' and his subsequent conquering of his demons. The resultant album, Ultra, was formed, like all the best Depeche Mode records, in a very different style to those which had gone before.
Susan Parker has been kidnapped by a hooded stranger. As he leads her through the woods she pleads for her life but her fate has been sealed and she knows it.
An actress attends an audition only to be insulted and interrogated by the male casting director. Preparing to walk out early, the girl is confronted by a seemingly friendly female casting director who pacifies the situation, temporarily.
Documentary looking at soccer hooligans around in the UK and around the world.
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.
Civil strife in Sudan is explored in personal detail in this film from British-Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri. Eschewing the nightmarish footage so prevalent on nightly newscasts to instead focus on the personal stories of those who have witnessed firsthand the horrors of genocide, Elsanhouri turns her lens on the troubled citizens of Sudan in a bid to understand their plight on a more humane level. By opening the lines of communication with her fellow Sudanese and offering a platform to voice their suggestions for building a brighter future, Elsanhouri exposes truths rarely discussed by the mainstream media.
Although Mermaids have been traditional symbols of fertility and a sexuality so powerful as to be a danger to shipping, details of their reproductive processes have been scarce. The film reveals the cycle of laying, fertilising and hatching as well as the previously secret role of storm-wrecked sailors.
The 2003/2004 season for Liverpool Football Club included the away win at Manchester United and Michael Owen's brace at Everton. All the highlights from all the games of the season are collected here, as well as an exclusive interview with the manager, Gerard Houillier.
Motion Control examines the synergy of camera and performer. Shot on 35mm, it explores from the camera's pov, the physical and emotional entrapment of the ageing and glamorous dancer in her private and personal spaces. The film is notable for hypersound foley overlaid with text and electro-opera composed by Billy Cowie and sung by soprano Naomi Itami.
Get to know the inspiring creative journey of the influential King of Reggae, as told by some of the closest people in his inner circle.
Short about a chinese woman living in Wales.
Experience the power of Thin Lizzy live! In October of 1978, more than 26,000 screaming fans packed the grounds of the Sydney Opera House in Australia for an unforgettable concert by this monster rock 'n roll band. With Guitar Greats, Scotty Gorhan and Gary Moore; front man Phil Lynott blasting the bass line and singing his heart out, it's no wonder there was standing room only. The 70's were a time when four-piece power bands ruled rock music, and Thin Lizzy was one of the best! 2022 re-release features additional footage, remixed audio, cleaned up picture, and truly captures Thin Lizzy at the top of their game.
Charlie, Sam & Alice visit some of the nude beaches around the world.
Marital ping-pong.
Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.
The first three of a series of intriguingly personal and erotic engagements seen in the privacy of darkness and transformed by the iridescence of the night light.
Since its 1984 release, Legend has become the biggest selling reggae album of all time. This film comprehensively reviews the music, its creation and the people behind it. The first rate critics include Dave Robinson; former head of Island Records and the man who created the Legend compilation, and Lloyd Bradley; world famous music writer (author of Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King), amongst many others. Vintage Marley footage, including one of his last performances with the Wailers in 1981 completes truly the final analysis you will ever need of the album that cemented the status of a Legend.
Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where they come from.
This documentary is a visual encyclopaedia of the fighters deployed and their strategic use, by both Allied and Axis Forces during the Second World War. The programme includes detailed accounts of the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Messerschmitt Be 109, Focke Wulf Fw 190, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt, Corsair, Kittyhawk, Beaufighter, Typhoon, Defiant, Wildcat, Messerschmitt Bf 110, and more.
The "Live in Brighton" concert captures the Pretty Things taking us through some of the highlights of their 40-year journey from 60s R&B punks to unrepentant Rock 'n Roll veterans, through psychedelic experimentation and the hard-rocking years of the '70s. The gig features their hit songs and tracks from the legendary "SF Sorrow," the first-ever rock opera.
Carol Morley tracks down her old friend Catherine Corcoran and returns to India where they once travelled as teenagers, in this playfully autobiographical short.
Jake Chapman looks at the history of shocking art and tries to find the most shocking piece of art ever, and also to find out what artists who create such works think of other artists who create shocking works of art.
A convicted murderer escapes from a secure unit on the moors, and finds himself in a small village, famous for its Beast sightings and disappearances. He's taken in and looked after by a strange lonely spinster who has taken a liking to him, but he soon begins to wonder if he was better off in prison.
Two car thieves get into an argument as the alarm goes off. For several minutes they continue to argue when they should be making tracks.
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
This documentary mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends, fellow musicians who played with Bob, and even the odd enemy... covering the period 1966-1978.
An intimate portrait of three parents trying to come to terms with their missing children and struggling to move on with their own lives.
Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London have weddings arranged for them against their will by their family. Shahanara, the rebel of the family, banished from the family in her teens for being "too Western", has to swap her pink hot pants for a sari as she goes off to the airport to meet her new Bangladeshi husband. Her sister Hushnara is the opposite of Shahanara; a devout Muslim who agrees to marry so she doesn't upset her parents.
A documentary about the making of the film "The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit"
Art Critic Waldemar Januzczak presents this documentary which details french artist Toulouse-Lautrec's life.
A short film about paintballing.
The Last Cape Horners - The End of the Great Sailing Ship Era Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. He employed them in the last trade left to the sailing ship, the carriage of grain from Australia to Europe by way of treacherous Cape Horn. Now old men, the last of the true Cape Horners tell of the dreadful conditions in which they lived and worked while sailing the great souther ocean towards the Horn. The film is illustrated with amazing archival footage shot on board three of these vessels in the last days of sail.
Join Tractor Ted and the farmer on a trip to the market to buy some more sheep. Winter is a good time to check the animals and the machines. The farmer needs to buy a new tractor but there are so many to choose from, which one will he buy?
Day through night Block is a portrait of a 1960s London tower block, its interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.
Enjoyment is the follow-up DVD release to indie band Kaiser Chiefs' highly successful debut album Employment, released on November 28, 2005. The main focus of the DVD is an approximately 90 minute documentary directed by Walpole-based artist Cally Callomon (who is responsible for much of the band's artwork), with an unusual narration by Bill Nighy and over an hour of live footage shot from various points in the band's career, ranging from their time as indie band Parva to the 2005 tour of Employment.
28 Weeks Later... Fan made promotional film. What would you do if the world was coming to an end? Face the apocalypse or find a nice spot to take in the view... Smoke 'em if you got 'em...
A married couple on a road trip discover they're not quite where they intended to be...
This is a simple love story. A silent film with sound in which virtual reality has finally caught up with us. And why does everyone always have to speak English?
An evil grandmother torments her granddaughter.
The wild and theatrical Tubes take over London! Features live footage of the band's 2004 ""Wild West"" performance at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. Tracklist includes: ""White Punks On Dope,"" ""Talk To Ya Later,"" ""Don't Want To Wait Anymore,"" ""Tip Of My Tongue"" and more. Features Vice Squad's Becki Bondage on ""Don't Touch Me There.
Documentary profiling Nelson Mandela, narrated by David Dimbleby.