The Invention of Cinema: Cinema's First Colors

Details the early attempts, what worked, or why it didn't, in the history of adding partial or full colour to films. Includes early film clips to illustrate how most tries appeared to audiences.

Claws

A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit, and the power struggles between them. Sukey is a beautiful Albanian Brown kitten, the sort that anyone would fall in love with. Sylvia Mortimer does – and so enters i

Give Us a Kiss, Christabel

Casual labour appeals to Wilfred, and the street market is a friendly home until he meets the beautiful Christabel. Her haughty dismissal drives him to amazing feats. He'll do anything for a kiss.

Weekend

A weekend at a winter seaside hotel, which includes a chance meeting with the elegant Liz Perrin, could help playwright David Austin to recharge his creative batteries. Maybe there are other things in his life that need

Not I

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January 1973

Freedom of the Dig

After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but there are other problems apart from the weather

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

A four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches, reference expressions... offer sixty or so “Guignolized” personalities the opportunity to analyze the phenomenon or reac

Deasey (Desperate)

Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things

Pit Strike

1972: striking miners converge on London's power stations. Among them, the huge, dignified figure of Joshua.

Henry Intervening

Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.

Early Winter

The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity.

Hanging Around

How do you kill time when you're 15 years old, have no money and live in a dull London suburb? Rod, Kip and Mul may be short of cash, but not ideas.

Over There

'It's like the Sealed Knot innit, it's historical.' A group of World War II enthusiasts forgather in the Lake District to do battle with a similarly devoted group of Waffen SS, especially imported from Gravesend. Of cour

Premières lunes

Commodity Traders

For the first time, a documentary dismantles the mechanisms of this great world trade to economic issues, major political and food, and reveals the daily life of those who are the main players: traders themselves, the me

Blum et ses premières ministres

The First Adventures of Chéri Bibi

The first adventures of Chéri Bibi

Young Solitude

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the h

Crest of a Wave

Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as campfire memories to swop, there just might be the possibility of a job.

Premières neiges