Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view on his wall, captured by his favourite artist, Scottish painter Anne Redpath. He travels from a London bank, via a chateau in Cap Ferrat and a monastery in Edinburgh.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Giuseppe Moscati, Doctor saint of Naples, was a doctor of the early twentieth century, from an arist...
One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major infl...

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Ors...

A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edw...

Mel Brooks appears on stage with Alan Yentob, the creative director for the BBC, at the Geffen Theat...

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful ...

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...

Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised to...

Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are...

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine...

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape ...

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began fi...

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio ...

The story of magic on TV, the challenges of performing illusions in front of the television cameras,...

Andrew Marr interviews David Hockney about his exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, mad...
The life and death of Alexander Pushkin is summarised in a 5-minute sequence of half-a-dozen scenes....