Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!
Hollywood is a hot spot for celebrities, and tour guide Scott Michaels (E!'s "20 Most Horrifying Hol...

Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with...

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact...

An award-winning wordless documentary that explores the architecture of the then new St. Peter's Sem...

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redempti...

The story of the first ascent of Rhapsody at Dumbarton Rock, the world's first E11 and hardest tradi...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...
The rivalry between football clubs Rangers and Celtic goes past typical name calling and dives into ...

Robotic historians recount and examine the events leading up to the annihilation of humanity.

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...

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

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and ...

A look into the mind of one of the Hillside Strangler murderers, Kenneth Bianchi.

The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...

The programme shows Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie's fascination with music from an early age, list...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...
Robert Llewellyn examines the enduring appeal of submarine movies, finding a beached Cold War Russia...

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...