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.

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

The birth date of film can be established: December 28, 1895. The place where it happened is also kn...

We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a fil...

A fungi expert also shows Judi the incredible action going on beneath her feet, revealing an astonis...
A short biography of life of St Thomas More. Contains clips from the 1966 feature film "A Man For A...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

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

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were la...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...