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- A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
- Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
- A teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon, which transforms him into a grotesque killer.
- After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
- A married couple decide to take their children on a camping holiday trip to France but they soon find out another couple is stalking them.
- Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted, flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain, he starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
- Tells the story of the last 3 years of her brief career.
- The very eccentric English peer Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts, with the help of his mad family & servants, to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert.
- In this "silent" sound-effect comedy, Ronnie Barker stars as General Futtock, who has a motley group of guests stay at his country estate for the weekend. Chaos ensues between the butler (Sir Michael Hordern) trying to catch glimpses of the good-looking young guests, rum accidentally falling into the punch bowl, and the lost Japanese tourist.
- A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.
- A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local community.
- English actor-comedian Stephen Fry travels through the US regions by London cab.
- A dark, investigative exploration of the obsessive gambling psyche.
- Wordless comedy about the trials and tribulations which abound when a young couple attempt to build their dream home.
- British writer and actor Stephen Fry reports on the shocking increase of new HIV-infected people in Britain and in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno (up to the entrance to the city of Dis). The text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.
- The Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr? But Lennon's artist roommate Stuart Sutcliffe was there at the start, playing bass. And his style forever shaped the band. Pierce the mystique that surrounds the start-up of the Beatles. See the down-and-out existence in Liverpool and Hamburg's sex quarter. Meet his lover Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voorman, Tony Sheridan.
- A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of trouble. Lots of celebrity appearances.
- A UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson.
- The definitive profile of singer/songwriter Roger Miller, whose amazing career placed him on the top of both the country and pop music charts and on Broadway. Includes rare performance clips of many of Roger's greatest hit songs.
- Roots Rock Reggae depicts an unforgettable moment in Jamaica's history when music defined the island's struggles and immortalised its heroes.
- An in-depth look at the life, career and tragic death of legendary rock star Phil Lynott, the founding member of Thin Lizzy.
- Six of George Balanchine's finest stars, Maria Tallchief, Mary Ellen Moylan, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley and Darci Kistler pay a moving tribute to the legendary choreographer and tell how he shaped them as dancers and influenced their lives.
- Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.
- 'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.
- Two-hour condensation of a nineteen-hour opera production in which Liniang, daughter of Governor Du, who is summoned to Huangzhou to fight off an invasion of Tartars, falls into a deep sleep and dreams of falling in love, and dies of love sickness. She is sent up from the underworld as a spirit in order to marry her destined love, a scholar from Canton, Liu Mengmei, whose name is a comination of willow and plum (which has poetic significance). Robert Powell's voiceovers keep us up to speed through the massive cuts.
- In this revolutionary yoga film, 'Trev' and his gang will teach you the never-before-seen yoga techniques of: Yoga Down The Pub; Yoga In The Motor; Yoga At The Footie; Yoga For Builders and Yoga With The Missus. So whether you need a hand with your work life, sex life, social life, or sports life, 'Trev' will sort you out. Includes 'serious' yoga workout: Bikini Yoga.
- Draws on a wealth of archive material, historical accounts, contributions from experts and exponents, and performance extracts to document the key events in the composers' lives and to chart their musical development.
- Documentary about the legendary Diva Maria Callas.
- The People's Chorus follows a unique choral event - a day in which 800 members of the public came together to rehearse and perform Thomas Tallis' 'Spem in Alium'.
- In a black and white interview to accompany the film, producer Bob Kelllet talks about how it came to be, and the experiences of making it.
- This is the essential visual reference of all classical ballet movements performed by some of the greatest names in American Ballet. This program includes over 800 variations in Russian, French, and Cecchetti styles. Many of the movements are shown in slow motion with multiple camera angles and voice-over narrative description. This engaging program demonstrates the complete language of ballet: Positions and Directions, Barre, Linking Steps, Center Practice, Pirouettes, Adage, Allegro, Batterie, Pointe, Musical Enchainements. This comprehensive guide features four of the most outstanding figures in American Ballet: Kevin McKenzie, Georgina Parkinson, Merrill Ashley and Denise Jackson.
- This made-for-TV documentary details the work that went into the production of The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese opera about love and destiny from beyond the grave. Film fans are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this condensed version of the 19-hour original, as well as to interviews with the directors and cast members, who give their insights into the efforts that were needed to bring this project to completion.
- A film celebrating the work of choreographer Hans van Manen.
- It is the first of the series. As an international composer, Gabriel Yared has written the original score of numerous films, including "Betty Blue" by Jean-Jacques Beineix, "Camille Claudel" by Bruno Nuytten, "The Lover" by Jean-Jacques Annaud, "The English Patient", "Cold Mountain", "The Talented Mister Ripley" and "Breaking & Entering" by Anthony Minghella. "In the Tracks of Gabriel Yared" brings the audience into the creative process of his film scores through interviews with collaborative personalities like Jean-Hugues Anglade and Jean-Jacques Annaud, from the very personal beginning to the movie theatre projectors.
- Stephen visits the US region most appealing to him, traditional Dixieland south of the Mason Dixie line, which he physically finds between Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the Virgianias he visits the coal mines which power half of US electric current. In Kentucky, horse breeding, whiskey distilling and Bluegrass, also the link to Tennessee and an angle to break his British tongue on the Dixie accent. Forensics for real prove gruesome. Trough Smokey Mountains into the Carolinas, for a balloon flight and Southern hospitality in Georgia. South of Dixie to 'Yankee-like' Florida, not to Fry's taste except the Everglades. Finally Alabama, back in Dixie, to the Board of pardons and Parole and the elaborate show in Auburn's college sports stadium.
- Erudite British actor and stand-up comedian Stephen Fry starts his idiosyncratic tour of the USA like mainstream immigration and pioneering, on the East Coast, in New York. He tastes both the capital Washington D.C. and the Yankee countryside. He searches for vestiges of the Civil War but also meets Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and similar worldwide-user-run websites.
- Stephen travels through the basin of Old Man River, North America's greatest, from the Great Lakes to its Gulf of Mexico delta. Stephen starts in Louisiana, visiting New Orleans, site of Mardi Gras frivolity and superstition, touring the ruins of the Lower Ninth Ward and Louisiana's infamous Angola State Penitentiary. He then travels north along Highway 61, with stops in Natchez, Mississippi (talking with Morgan Freeman, owner of a local blues club), Arkansas (canoeing on the river), Iowa (discussing meditation at the Maharishi International University), St. Louis (talking with some homeless people living in an abandoned warehouse), Elkhart, Indiana (riding in a fire engine) and Detroit (riding with the designer of the latest Cadillac). In Chicago, he tours the South Side with blues legend Buddy Guy and gets roped into helping with a Second City show, with Chicago-style hot dogs after with two of the performers. Then on to Wisconsin for artisanal cheesemaking, a visit to a Hmong market in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and finally a bit of ice-fishing. Meditations about river-love, the restless nature of the American dream and immigration alter with visits to towns and cities in the vast Midwest plains and Minnesota sources. Included are the San Louis homeless, Vedic 'trans-meditational yoga' guru's Iowa commune HQ, second US economic city Chicago, Scandinavian and Hmong communities in the icy north.
- Steven explores from Canadian to Mexican border the spine of North America: the Rocky Mountains, which also constitute the continental divide between river systems flowing West to the Pacific or east, to the Atlantic, where he also visits the prairie plains. Stops include nature reserves and media magnate Ted Turner's bison farming as well as the German immigrants in North Dakota, a virtual ghost town, Texan socialites at a Houston benefit dinner.
- On a tour of the Southwestern US, Stephen Fry visits Los Alamos National Lab, speaks with architect Michael Reynolds, dines with a Navajo family, attends a Mormon calendar shoot, and learns about legal prostitution.