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Glasgow has streets full of tanning salons which service the Glaswegian desire for glamour. We take a look at the peely-wally Scots obsession with having sun kissed brown, or orange, skin.

"Usual thing, try and get the question in the answer" - A conversation with the band discussing recording techniques, inter cut with personal archive footage from previous album sessions.

A dark fable about a woman who kills herself with her imagination.

An old man makes his way up a flight of stairs, only to do the unexpected.

Drama. Two sisters are playing in the garden when their father returns. As dusk falls the atmosphere darkens.

The first-ever DVD to feature one of the great New-Wave acts of the late 1970s, The Fleshtones. For over 30 years, the band has recorded and toured playing around the world to their ever-loyal fanbase and is still going as strong as ever. Live At The Hurrah Club features a full-length performance from the band at New York's legendary venue from the early 1980 s bonus material that comes from a performance at the NY Rocker Party event.

Spoken Diary, intertwines the inner angst of a woman traversing hesitation, loss and denial with that of her journey through dark, wet and desolate streets of London.

Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy and injustice are computed and integrated into financial considerations that make it impossible to give a human answer to one of the most fundamental questions - what is the value of life? (Storyville)

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Many kitesurfers master the fundamentals, and can comfortably cruise around and try the odd jump, but then struggle to move any further. Progression: Intermediate has help thousands of kitesurfers to take the next step and start learning tricks with rotations.

A look at the First Doctor's comic strip adventures. Featuring interviews with artist Bill Mevin, comics historians Jeremy Bentham and John Ainsworth, and former Doctor Who Magazine editors Gary Russell and Alan Barnes.

At the party, humans, animals and other-worldly beings dance the night away.

A close look at Peter Lovenkrands, Rangers key player of the moment, who helped the team beat Celtic in the Tennants Scottish Cup final at Hampden - scoring 2 of the winning goals. Includes a special feature in which Peter shows off his flair for fashion.

While walking along the beach, Ty almost stands on some abandoned dark glasses. When he puts them on the spectacles he sees are truly... prehistoric.

For three months, Spanish filmmaker Esteban Manzanares Uyarra followed five reporters and photographers from Denmark, Norway, Poland, and the United States in Iraq. These journalists circumvented military media control to get access to a different perspective on the Iraq War. As the Coalition of the willing swept into Iraq, some journalists in Kuwait decided to travel in their wake, risking their lives to discover the impact of war on civilians.

This is a documentary film that focuses on four young people who were on a course run by youth organisations YMCA and Prince's Trust.

South West Country Stand-up Comedy from Jethro

'Man, a being in search of meaning' we experience the fear, adrenaline and power of an Olympic cyclist going into battle on the world stage.

So Solid Crew are the most exciting act to emerge onto the British music scene for decades. Portrayed as a threat to the nation’s youth by much of the media and many of those in authority, the group are effectively banned from playing live anywhere in the UK. This Is So Solid is all you need to bring you up to speed with the phenomenon that is So Solid Crew at the end of 2002. Containing the promo videos to all their singles, David Upshal’s revealing documentary 'This Is So Solid' and exclusive footage from a fan club only live show where the crew unveil brand new tracks, this DVD gives a unique insight into the crew’s music, personalities and performance.

During the cultural revolution, six-year-old Gharavi was sent from Iran to live with her father in the West, remaining separated from her mother into adulthood. This intense personal documentary follows Gharavi’s return to Iran in an attempt to understand her mother’s decision and to reconnect to her lost past. Choosing not to explain the last twenty years of her life, Gharavi drops the viewer directly into the moment of her return, sharing the immediacy of the event. With the use of verite and acted scenes to mirror the reunion’s emotional landscape, Gharavi’s frustration with her mother’s ambiguity becomes clear. As the visit draws to a close, her mother remains elusive about why she sent Gharavi away, while continuing to encourage and pressure her daughter to return to and settle down in Iran. Gharavi, however, has her own reasons for why she does not want to move back to Iran and meet a “good man.”

The Art of Henry Moore aims to rediscover the artist by returning to the works themselves – his sculptures, drawings and graphics – and to Moore’s own thoughts about them. Archive photographs from the collection at the Henry Moore Foundation complement the artworks, newly filmed across Britain, in France and the USA. Many of the artist’s most significant sculptures are featured, from the earliest models of the 1920s to the monuments of his final years. Drawings from each stage of his career, including the famous tube shelter sketches made during the Blitz, are also included. The specially recorded soundtrack is drawn solely from Moore’s words in interviews, articles and letters.

E3 (∞, E = eternity, 3 = 3 month) is the first work trying to capture my drawing and painting style into a moving picture. It captures the beginning, with all its enthusiasm, energy and more or less sub-conscious hope that things develop differently in a new space. Followed by the phase were everything slows down to finally result in a complete breakdown into everyday life. This cycle happens over and over again, in all scales, in all relations … sometimes it can be a cozy, pleasant state … while other times it seems like Don Quixote, fighting against windmills …

Filmed in one of Europe's most famous clubs, this DVD presents John Hammond in concert, performing his unique blend of country and Chicago style blues.

The Jedi learn of the Emperor's plan to release his new Clone Army on an unsuspecting Republic, and set out to stop him - as well as rescue an old friend along the way.

Resembling a lost instructional film, Medicine Box draws attention to the repeated cycle of medical ingestion and how a small pill can have such a large effect on the human body.

In her short life Jane Austen wrote six novels. These well loved English classics may have once been regarded as the province of the literature student, but due to recent film and television productions they have gained mass following on both sides of the Atlantic. This DVD explores the development of Austen's style, her bright sparkling wit and her unforgettable characters. See the places Jane wrote about as they are today, from the tranquillity of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, to the hustle and bustle of London. Then step back into the world of Regency Society preserved for all time in the work of Jane Austen.

End of the Street takes the original 19th century Beaufort wind force scale and conjures a response, incrementally turning up the strangeness.

Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to human rights crimes committed with the backing of the Mexican government – it is the story of a troubled conscience and the rupturing of official lies.

Drama that follows a couple who have returned home, to get the man's father's blessing for their marriage.

A mad doctor creates a gorilla that goes on a violent rampage across Blackpool. Meanwhile, a disfigured Gulf war veteran kidnaps his social worker. Also in the area are two escaped criminals who have travelled up north from London. They break into the house of an elderly woman, but little do they know, she's an electric-carving-knife-wielding maniac!

Anesthetics are almost taken for granted now, but they have a relatively short history. In the bad old days surgery was a spectator sport, and a patient was as likely to die from the shock as he was from the disease or deformity that plagued him. Scream: The History of Anesthetics covers the major highlights of the quest for the perfect anesthetic.

Set on the seabed, the spirit of young woman emerges from the sand and dreams of the life she might have had. The animation is projected on to sand and the dancers.

One of the three microshorts which inspired 'Jojo in the Stars'

A tasty compendium of Maximo Park’s ‘A Certain Trigger’ campaign, featuring a veritable array of content

A man is in a nightclub for a casting in a film. The crew like him immediately. However, they make a condition, to get the part he has to go with them to their studio. He accepts. When they arrive to destination the place turns out to be a creepy old basement in the middle of nowhere.

Thirteen years old and six foot two, Ben ‘Westi’ Westerman finds it hard to fit in to a world where bigger is not always better, but soon discovers that his size can be a gift as well as a curse.

Experimental film that references works including Terry Riley’s Time Lag Accumulator and Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan.

The film is the sequel to 'We are all Neighbours', the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed village in central Bosnia. 'Returning Home' follows the same Muslim families seven years later as they rebuild their lives in their devastated village. It illustrates the decisive role of the international community in facilitating returns, the steely determination of displaced villagers to return, and their surprisingly sympathetic attitude toward Croat refugees living in their homes.

Scenes from Sex and the City lip-synced by 1970s feminists, all of whom are portrayed by artist Oriana Fox.

Nightshift is a two hour DVD based around The Names' homecoming concert at legendary Brussels venue Plan K on 15 December 2007. Shot in HD with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the show features 11 songs including classic singles, new tracks and an encore cover of Magazine song The Light Pours Out of Me. The DVD also features several vintage promo clips from 1980-82, including shorts for Nightshift, Light and The Astronaut. An intimate extra bonus feature is provided by Celebration, 9 songs recorded live at a 2005 birthday party for singer/songwriter Michel Sordinia, where the band run through versions of a number of Names originals along with other songs.

66.86m of rope. A corner of a room. A chair.

A hybrid documentary which traces the musical influences on a Siberian boy from childhood through to present day.

Heinz is led by Jim to a snowy wasteland just outside Vienna for the purpose of traveling to the future using a powerful time machine.

One-man bands. Showmen, eccentrics, loners. This award-winning documentary paints a funny and moving portrait of a selection of contemporary musicians who play as one-person acts and discovers that, for them, music just sounds so much better - and gets so much crazier - when you make it all alone. Life on the road for a one-man band is a journey into solitude. So is musical glory worth the pain?

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist.

Public Information Film reminding job interviewers that some subjects are off limits.

A film loop of train seats with patterned upholstery, echoing the absent bodies, like sculptures of human beings side by side, with a corner of suburbia showing through the train window.

"Several old ladies and one man share a meal with bright, plastic beakers and much laughter at the Salvation Army in Portobello, a seaside town by Edinburgh, Scotland." - LUX.org.uk

Documentary tracing how human understanding of the jet stream - a ribbon of fast moving air high in the atmosphere - has grown. It has been responsible for bewildering effect on bomber pilots during the Second World War, turbocharging modern transatlantic flyers, the infamous 1987 hurricane and devastating floods. Scientists believe this powerful weather phenomenon is now changing its pattern of behaviour and could have an even bigger impact on our climate and the way we live our lives. Interviewees include Sir Brian Hoskins, University of Reading and Kirsty McCabe from the BBC Weather Centre.

A young Scottish boy starts at a new school and discovers the hierarchy doesn't quite operate how he thought it did.

This extra-length history of the RAF covers every significant event from WWI to 2003's invasion of Iraq. Also included is action-packed footage of over one hundred different aircraft types flown by the RAF, from the WWI era Sopwith Camel to the latest Eurofighter Typhoon. Includes four rare short bonus films covering subjects as diverse as Vulcans in the USA and Beaufighters attacking enemy shipping.

A live action / 3D animation about J03, an 8 bit digital man stuck in our 21st century analogue world searching for the way home.

In this soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.

Seven-year old Monica blames her mum's new boyfriend for the untimely deaths of her pets and sets out on a path of revenge.

Cornish comedian Jethro is back, entertaining a raucous West Country audience with a series of anecdotes, jokes and sketches. Join him as he reminisces about bedtime football antics with his American cousin, and learn how to make battlewear out of clingfilm and a Jubilee clip.

Circa 1999 surrealist mixed media 16mm film noir based on script written using cutup methods.

A twisted, moralistic little plot develops as we go on a drug induced bike ride through the countryside with the film's two characters, a burly mean-spirited biker on a tweaked 1300cc Harley and a little old lady on a moped.

A documentary about the residents of the village of Botton in Yorkshire.