This three part television series, presented by eminent historical writer Peter Ackroyd, Romantics explores the turbulent story of the pioneers of modern imagination: their private pleasures, personal dreams and political passions.
Between 1760 and 1830 the imaginations of a few individuals re-ordered human perception. English poets such as William Blake and Lord Byron were are...
‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ charts the story behind Damien Hirst’s most ambitious project to date. Almost ten years in the making, the eponymous exhibition was displayed across the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice from 9th April – 3rd December 2017. Hirst collaborated with director Sam Hobkinson and producer Nicolas Kent to chronicle the exhibi...
In April 2013, chaos erupted in Boston near the finish line of one of the world's oldest and most prestigious marathons. It was the worst terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11 and led to one of the most extensive and public manhunts in American history. Now, as the one-year anniversary approaches, National Geographic Channel presents a special two-hour event, Inside ...
A wonderful documentary, by turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, about how during the Bosnian war a most unlikely group of heroes comprising academics, librarians, and other staff, including the nightwatchman and a cleaner risked their lives to rescue thousands of irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts – and preserve a nation's history. Amid bullets and bombs, this handful of passi...
Made for television as part of BBC4's Edwardian season of films, based on three stories of Saki, "The Storyteller", "The Lumber Room" and "Sredni Vashtar", each one telling a cruelly funny tale of children using their imagination to overcome their repressed upbringing.
While traveling on a train, a bachelor finds himself with a stiff, elderly woman and her three young wards. Th...
Somewhere in the Home Counties in the late 1930s, Angela visits her insane father Lord Moping at the County Home for Mental Defectives. There she meets the kindly lunatic Mr Loveday. Charmed by him, she begins a campaign for his release.
Fawlty Towers stars Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs join David Warner and Fenella Woolgar in this darkly comic drama by Evelyn Waugh. The fil...