Movies: Oliver Stapleton

A longform video that showcases the British pop group ABC, using songs from their album "The Lexicon of Love" to tell a spy-caper story of how the unsuspecting lead singer, Martin Fry, is duped into fronting the band because of his striking resemblan...

A huge influence on world music, Nigerian artist Fela Kuti played many instruments, pioneered afrobeat music and served as a prominent activist for human rights in Africa. This 1984 documentary examines the life and music of the remarkable man. Using...

Programme which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the creation of children's cartoon character Rupert Bear, with Paul McCartney, Richard Rogers, Dr. John Rae and Sir Hugh Casson...

Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian. Together they have a chart hit with the 'mystery' group but complicatio...

South African Film...

Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Brazil and then to England where he attracted notoriety with his explicit sex farces on the stage and sh...

The story of a theatre group putting on an Athol Fugard play in London: one of the characters is a South Africa political exile. Unknown to him he is being shadowed by BOSS (The South African security police), but his weird and strange photographer ...

Laundrette was the first of seven collaborations between director Stephen Frears and cinematographer Oliver Stapleton. In this engaging interview, Stapleton discusses his experiences on set, including how he approached the film with a mixture of styl...