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- The history of sexual mores in America and as shown in Hollywood films is examined, from early cinema through the Hays Code. The 1960s and the sexual revolution were a turning point in society, as reflected on screen.
- A documentary about John Ford's bond with Monument Valley, presented by Peter Cowie with comments by Ford's long time collaborators such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart...
- In 1841 Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "Descent Into the Maelstrom". A tale of two brothers who sailed their fishing boat into the raging waters of the "Moskenestraumen" in Lofoten in the Arctic Circle of Northern Norway. The boat sank and only one of the brothers survived. In 1980 Philip Glass was commissioned to write a 66 minute piece of music based on the work of E.A. Poe. The work was performed in Australia for a dance company and the original recording has been lost. The piece was recorded again for posterity by the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1981. We have arranged the music for the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra and in June 2018 we will march the orchestra to the top of Kvalvik mountain in Lofoten and they will perform the piece anew at its place of birth. We will also be filming the people of Lofoten hard at work in the toughest imaginable weather conditions. Strong people surviving in an inhospitable, yet beautiful landscape.
- Gilbert and George have been on an art pilgrimage for six decades - their life is their art. As it and they enter a whole new period, they reflect on their shared commitment to art both behind them and, they assert, still ahead of them.
- Gene Tierney's life story would perfectly lend itself to a screenplay for a successful Hollywood movie with herself starring in it. She grew up in a well-to-do middle class family and began to write poetry at an early age. On a trip to Los Angeles she was taken on a tour through the Warner Studios. When Anatole Litvak spotted her, he said to her mother : she ought to be in pictures. This was the beginning of a long career with masterpieces as Laura, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Leave Her to Heaven. For Martin Scorsese, she is maybe the most underrated actress of our time.
- The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swash buckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad". He was the "First King of Hollywood". His life story unfolds with American history and the emergence of the film industry as backdrop. His style made him the perfect American icon. At a time when the country did not have any self-doubt, he represented America like no one else: strong, confident, heroic, smiling and conquering. He was "Everybody's Hero". He married the "America's Sweetheart"; Mary Pickford, he also started, with Pickford, Chaplin and Griffith, the United Artists Studio which is still a Hollywood player today. This film is the life of Douglas Fairbanks in a first person narration.
- A portrait of the great film maker Orson Welles, with interviews with himself, his daughter and other film personalities.From the TCM-series "This is...".
- This unique live staging of a baroque masterpiece showcases Handel's exquisitely lyrical music and presents a story of ambition that is as relevant today as it was when written three centuries ago.
- In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers. "Hearing is Believing" introduces the world to the life and music of the multi-talented 23-year old musician and composer, Rachel Flowers.
- This animated historical documentary is about the unique life of the german genius, Georg Sauerwei (1831-1904), that dedicated his life to fight for minority group's right to speak in their native language, as well as it depicts his impossible love for princess Elizabeth of Wied, the future queen of Romania.
- World renowned G&S "patterman" Simon Butteriss tells the story of the collaboration between the actor George Grossmith and the Savoy opera creators Gilbert and Sullivan.
- During the 1930s anti-Semitism was rampant not only in Germany but also in America. There was a German American Bund and pro-Nazi rallies even filled Madison Square Gardens in New York City. And the US was isolationist. Until Pearl Harbor, then, everything changed. Spymasters throughout the 20th century, and particularly during times of conflict, thought it advantageous to enlist the services of celebrities who had high level and powerful "fans" in various industries, many with easy access to politicians and high ranking government officials. Hollywood, as we now know from declassified National Archive documents, aided in the mobilization for war and its people contributed as spies, combatants, propagandists, documentary and fund-raisers, entertainers, and morale- boosters. Hundreds of celebrities eagerly answered the "call to arms" and brought their talents and patriotism to the intelligence services, military and war information offices. In the wake of Pearl Harbor President Franklin Roosevelt by executive order formed in June 1942 the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of today's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the National Archives we discover that stars as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, Josephine Baker, John Ford and many more, were spies for the Allies, and changed the curse of the war. They did amazing things, dangerous things, and their fame was their asset. This untold story is very accurate and relevant still today.
- Sophisticated and sexy, yet crazy. Stylish and smart. When New York screenwriters got jobs in Hollywood in the 1930s, both the tempo and the temperature in the studio rose. It was called "screwball" and it only lasted for ten years.
- A fun documentary about the introduction of the Hays Code and which influence it had on movies made and how the film industry was trying to get around the Hays Code.
- A documentary film examining tap dancing and its roots in American cultural history.
- The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
- Portrait of one the most fantastic American cartoonist, author of MAUS, Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
- Fred Lyon: Living Through the Lens is an intimate exposé of San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon, who is still going strong after seven decades behind the camera.
- Six blind professional musicians ranging in age from 17 to 65 come together in a London recording studio to create and record a musical tribute to Louis Braille.
- The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.
- French photographer Eugène Atget embraced a heartfelt realism that influenced generations of younger photographers-including an American, Berenice Abbott, who championed him in his later career and carried on his legacy. This program examines the work of both artists, juxtaposing Atget's Paris oeuvre with Abbott's views of New York.
- Great Czech director Milos Foreman talks about his journey from Czechoslovakia to Hollywood. Through humorous stories, Milos Forman explains how he succeeded in Hollywood and the difficulties he faced coming to USA from a communist country where the shooting of a film was a really hard work.
- "Big John" Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, as he plots improve his financial position by seducing the lovely Alice Ford.
- Simon Butteriss explores the life and work of Oliver Goldsmith, writer of the ever popular play "She Stoops to Conquer".
- In 1960s England, Joan Littlewood, one of the first female directors in British theatre - a force to be reckoned with - developed a revolutionary approach to theatre, creating the famous anti- war musical 'Oh, What a Lovely War!'
- Biography on the famous writer-director, Billy Wilder.
- The story of a revolutionary film, Que Viva Mexico, released 47 years after its shooting and 31 years after the death of its director, Sergei Eisenstein.
- Valery Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's six symphonies for the first time during a tour in Europe with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
- A profile of stained glass window artist, architect and painter Brian Clarke.
- Greed was a movie that went way over budget , almost killed its leading role and eventually cost Erich Von Stroheim, the director, his reputation and career as a film director.
- In the early 1960s, two movies with the major female stars of the time, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, ended bankrupting 20th Century Fox. This is the story of these two movies: Joseph L. Mankiewicz's over-priced super-production "Cleopatra" and George Cukor's unfinished "Something's Got to Give", which production tragically and abruptly stopped because of the demise of Marilyn Monroe.