Edward Watson takes the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's compelling ballet which lives out the final eight years of Rudolf's life with its relentless downward spiral of political intrigue, drugs and murder. It culminates with the suicide pact at the hunting lodge - known as Mayerling - between Rudolf and his 17-year-old mistress, Mary Vetsera (Mara Galeazzi). Filmed in high definition and recorded in true surround sound.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambit...

A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the ...

Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but ther...

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised...

The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker...

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

The Dream: Frederick Ashton’s delightful interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream i...

Matthew Bourne choreographs this performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet, filmed live in London. The sho...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...

Jeanne, a young modern woman, mourns her brother who died in the front a few months earlier in WW I....

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...