The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Ο θεατρικός θρύλος Σερ Μάικλ Γκίφορντ είναι ασθενής με χρόνο λήξης. Είναι όμως και αθυρόστομος, εριστικός και γενικά ανυπόφορος. Στο σπίτι του καταφτάνει μια Ούγγρα νεαρή μετανάστρια, η Ντορότια, για να πάρει τη θέση πολλών πριν από αυτήν που προσπάθησαν να κουράρουν τον ηθοποιό. Κρυφά, η Ντορότια ελπίζει να της διδάξει την ερμηνευτική, αλλά ο Μάικλ προτιμά να την κατσαδιάζει, μέχρι που η τυχαία αναφορά σε ένα απόσπασμα του Σαίξπηρ φανερώνει την κοινή τους αγάπη και μαζί αλλάζει για τα καλά η σχέση τους. Καθώς ο Μάικλ μαλακώνει, η Ντορότια φέρνει στο φως τις φιλοδοξίες της, και ο καθένας τους έχει να πάρει ένα πολύτιμο μάθημα.
Terror lurks in the old orphanage, beneath a disused London hospital - a Seventeeth Century malevolence, the Plague Doctor, has returned to complete his evil masterpiece
20th anniversary documentary on “Orphans” including interviews with cast and crew.
Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur’s own voice.
Ο Carne Ross ήταν ένας υψηλόβαθμος κυβερνητικός υπάλληλος, ένας διπλωμάτης καριέρας που πίστευε ότι η Δυτική Δημοκρατία μπρεί να σώσει τους πάντες. Δουλεύοντας όμως μέσα στο σύστημα είδε απο πρώτο χέρι πόσο μπορεί να σε φθείρει η εξουσία και άρχισε να αναρωτέται αν υπάρχει κάποιο καλύτερο σύστημα από αυτό που γνώρισε. Για τον Carne υπάρχει και είναι η αναρχία...
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.
Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapidly—and how, sometimes, the conditions in which they detox put them at risk.
The final chapter of his exceptional 15-part documentary exploring the history of cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Mark Cousins builds a bridge between the “before” of the health crisis, and the “after”.
Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.
Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.
Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. Despite the cutesy decor, the place is far from benign, and she and her inmates are encouraged to compete for survival while being watched over by surveillance cameras, 24/7. Presiding over the group is an authoritarian diva who speaks entirely with the voice of Kenneth Clark from the 1960s BBC series Civilisation. As she forces the women to go head-to-head in a series of demeaning tasks, Siri, with the help of fellow inmate Alexa, starts subverting the rules and soon reveals the sinister truth that underpins their world.
The true story of a trans man and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role.
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the chainsaw wielding tree surgeon working in the school grounds. Reg and her classmates have to take part in a self defense exercise - The Attack Test. Alone, Reg must walk through the woods until she is attacked by her masked teacher, Mike, at which point she must defend herself using force. This is intended as real life preparation for these privileged and inexperienced women living in an isolated world where rape paranoia was rife. Full of trepidation, Reg walks into the woods where Mike is waiting, but the test does not go according to plan.
Janey Godley takes centre stage in this engaging and insightful documentary about the fearless and funny comic. Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings. 'First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,' Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologising and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis. That didn’t stop her from going on tour and director John Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey's daughter, Ashley, that reveal details of a difficult Glasgow childhood.
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.
Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.