Web series about film history, movies and filmmaking.
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Two-part documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was once the biggest film production centre outside Hollywood: Elstree.
An eight-part series on the history of French cinema from the postwar era to New Wave and beyond. Unearths the stories behind the films’ creation through live and archival interviews with the producers of the films in the series, as well as colleagues, family members, and experts on French cinema. Interlaced throughout is footage from a wealth of classic French films.
Colm Meaney presents a celebration of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Dublin family the Rabbittes and the film adaptations of the books, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van.
Hosted by Ian Nathan, this series features the cinematic stories of the Cold War era: propaganda, nuclear fear, a change in the US society; the spy games; and the rise and fall of the USSR and East Germany (and everything in between). Film critics and historians examine the industry both as it was happening in real time, and how films from this period have become seminal classics.
As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
Shashi Kapoor presents a history of the Hindi film industry from its roots in 1913 to the 1980s, illustrated with clips and interviews.
Movie expert Elwy Yost interviews industry people on both sides of the camera, encouraging them to talk about themselves, the state of their art, and its history. The series features many famous film personalities who, along with producers, directors, designers, screenwriters, and critics, offer candid insights into the making of motion pictures.
Explore Carl Gustav Jung's private collection of rare books. Uncover the secrets of alchemy and psychology. Fathom the knowledge of the transmutation of the soul, Jung's excerpts, the hidden story behind the Red Book, Septem sermones and Gnostic wisdom, Aurora consurgens, the Secret of the Golden Flower, the Individuation process, Synchronicity and archetypes, Goethe - the alchemist and Paracelsus. The project has been realized in association with the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung. Filmed at paradigmatic locations like the House of C. G. Jung in Zurich, Eranos and other mystic places in Switzerland.
Michael Portillo explores the region of Andalucia in southern Spain, visiting six of his favourite locations in the area.
Over the course of 10 episodes, we go to the roots of the most iconic dishes from various regions of Portugal. In each episode, Chef Vitor Adão meets with protagonists of local gastronomy and cooks the region's specialties with them, always over the fire. In addition to the gastronomic theme, this series presents trips to some of the most beautiful and still unknown places in Portugal.
On 5th September 2012, in a small mountain parking lot in the Alps, a British vacationing family and a local cyclist were found murdered. This marks the beginning of what would become one of the most far-reaching and mysterious criminal cases of recent decades in Europe. While the victims appear to have no notable history, French and British investigators quickly uncover a complex and increasingly perplexing reality.
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