Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jac...

As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territo...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY spec...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artis...

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
Chez Schwartz takes us inside a year in the life of Schwartz's Deli - the unique 75-year-old landmar...

The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very...

A documentary on the dark and brutal side of the Samurai warrior clans featuring the life of peasant...

Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Al...