A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.
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A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.
Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.
The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.
A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.
Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm and storm.
A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.
Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army.
The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.