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.

At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, ho...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

Characters from Haitian folklore come to life telling their story of ritual, ceremony and celebratio...

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the p...

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet co...

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

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...

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...

Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful servant Sanch...

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...

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 ...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly covet...

Shannon Davidson and Ashley Shaw at the iconic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, delving into thei...

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...