JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli

Laurence Olivier: a life

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

Orion

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.

The Adventure of English

The history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg; from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a global language.

Norbert Smith: A Life

A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

The Debussy Film

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

Naked Making Lunch

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

Jesus Christ Superstar

As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic

Last week Freddie Mercury would have celebrated his 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, celebrity fans Robbie Williams, McFly and Mike Myers talk about what they think made him so special. Photographs, home video footage and rarely heard interviews with the man himself are featured and some of Freddie's close friends and family reveal the man behind the magic.

The Music Lovers

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

Always on Sunday

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible

Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes – his thirties childhood in Southampton; his first sexual experience (watching Disney’s Pinocchio); his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne; early careers in the Merchant Marine and the Royal Air Force; dancing days at the Shepherds Bush Ballet Club; and of course his career as a filmmaker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor.

Johnny and the Dead

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). 12-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.

Play Dirty

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

Isadora

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a group of art lovers and fortune seekers who converge simultaneously on the palace.

David Lean: A Life in Film

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.