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Monteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent times of the late Italian...

A 4 part documentary about jazz musician / actor Slim Gaillard with interviews, archival footage & performances.

Folk singer Judy Collins performs to a BBC studio audience in 1973. Songs performed are Joni Mitchell compositions Chelsea Morning and Both Sides...

Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare...

The hip-hop or rap scene came to the UK from New York in the early 1980s. The media exploited the new craze and then dropped what has become, for a...

Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the...

Documentary recounts the World War II story of a jewish teenager and an injured soldier join a doomed plot to kill Hitler. They face almost certain...

Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the fight to both prevent it, and expand it's...

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

We watch one young woman’s unconventional attempt to take control of her own love life by growing the perfect partner - a beautiful giant slug....

We have an extraordinary relationship with dogs - closer than with any other animal on the planet. But what makes the bond between us so special?...

A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble...

A through trip down Simpson Pot and out of the Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave. Filmed over a dozen trips, it features cavers from the Happy...

Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the...

Andrew Graham-Dixon considers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter and poet who reinvented the Victorian ideal of female beauty... and who...

28 years from his last Broom Cupboard appearnce, Gordon the Gopher attempts to restart his TV career.

Film poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so...