Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. As a life-long fan can Stephen, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, salvage Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler?
The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than paro...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestr...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.
In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...
Journeying across Varanasi, Lucknow, and Muzzafarpur in India, this documentary film traces the lost...
The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of b...
The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other th...
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, second in a trilogy.
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, first in a trilogy
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
A short educational documentary on early electronic composition and synthesizers.
This feature length documentary charts the story of the great Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee. A legend himself,...
Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane s...