Bbc Movies

  • 1990
    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague

    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague

    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague

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    This half-hour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on "Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," and uses excerpts from his earlier fi...

    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague
  • 2007
    Partition: The Day India Burned

    Partition: The Day India Burned

    Partition: The Day India Burned

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    Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were dis...

    Partition: The Day India Burned
  • 2020
    Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia

    Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia

    Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia

    02020HD

    The former cricketer turned television presenter opens up about the eating disorder he has kept hidden for 20 years and challenges the stigma around t...

    Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia
  • 2022
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    02022HD

    The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and sho...

    The Human Voice
  • 1983
    To Sing Our Own Song

    To Sing Our Own Song

    To Sing Our Own Song

    01983HD

    In 1983, Jose W. Diokno, lawyer and two-term Senator, narrated this 50-minute documentary on the Marcos dictatorship. The program was produced and air...

    To Sing Our Own Song
  • 1979
    Brecht and Co

    Brecht and Co

    Brecht and Co

    01979HD

    Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

    Brecht and Co
  • 2010
    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

    72010HD

    In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-Saxon art treasures. Her basic thesis - and it is a...

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
  • 2017
    Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture

    Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture

    Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture

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    Hull is the UK's City of Culture for 2017. In this BBC Arts documentary, the wonderful Hull-born comedian Lucy Beaumont, writer and star of the Radio...

    Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture
  • 1977
    The Chinese Word for Horse

    The Chinese Word for Horse

    The Chinese Word for Horse

    01977HD

    A BAFTA award nominated animated fable in which the audience, while being entertained, may also learn eight Chinese characters.

    The Chinese Word for Horse
  • 1975
    Thwum

    Thwum

    Thwum

    01975HD

    Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed...

    Thwum
  • 2016
    Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

    Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

    Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

    02016HD

    The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famous band. The documentary looks at the emergence of...

    Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
  • 1939
    The Circle

    The Circle

    The Circle

    01939HD

    In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesso...

    The Circle
  • 2011
    Top Gear: The U.S. Special

    Top Gear: The U.S. Special

    Top Gear: The U.S. Special

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    In their not quite biggest adventures yet, the boys visit the good old US of A and former Eastern Bloc Albania for two action packed road trips. In Am...

    Top Gear: The U.S. Special
  • 1996
    Skinhead Farewell

    Skinhead Farewell

    Skinhead Farewell

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    The bizarre truth behind the enigma of Jim Moffatt, alias Richard Allen, author of the cult classic Skinhead series of novels for the New English Libr...

    Skinhead Farewell
  • 2013
    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

    102013HD

    Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the hear of...

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
  • 2013
    Kumbh Mela - The Greatest Show On Earth

    Kumbh Mela - The Greatest Show On Earth

    Kumbh Mela - The Greatest Show On Earth

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    February 2013, Allahabad, India. Over the next 55 days, nearly a hundred million people will come here, to the Great Kumbh Mela. This incredible and a...

    Kumbh Mela - The Greatest Show On Earth
  • 2015
    The Great European Disaster Movie

    The Great European Disaster Movie

    The Great European Disaster Movie

    5.752015HD

    2014-2015: 17. The Great European Disaster Movie Authored documentary by Italian director Annalisa Piras and former editor of The Economist Bill Emmo...

    The Great European Disaster Movie
  • 2004
    The Real Little Britain

    The Real Little Britain

    The Real Little Britain

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    Documentary which goes in search of real-life versions of the characters and situations featured in the comedy series "Little Britain" (2003),explori...

    The Real Little Britain
  • 2006
    The Summer of Rave, 1989

    The Summer of Rave, 1989

    The Summer of Rave, 1989

    7.52006HD

    In the final days of the yuppie decade, the summer of ’89 saw a new type of youth rebellion rip through the cultural landscape, with thousands of youn...

    The Summer of Rave, 1989
  • 1947
    Power Without Glory

    Power Without Glory

    Power Without Glory

    01947HD

    Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother.

    Power Without Glory