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.

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...