Movies: Bbc Arena

  • 1995
    Stonewall

    Stonewall (1995)

    Stonewall

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    A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement....

    Stonewall
  • 1996
    I Shot Andy Warhol

    I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

    I Shot Andy Warhol

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    Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is...

    I Shot Andy Warhol
  • 1979
    My Way

    My Way (1979)

    My Way

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    Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'...

    My Way
  • 2020
    African Apocalypse

    African Apocalypse (2020)

    African Apocalypse

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    Rob Lemkin’s harrowing yet urgent documentary shines a lens on the trauma and legacy of colonialism in one of Africa’s poorest nations, Niger....

    African Apocalypse
  • 2010
    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

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    In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's ...

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration
  • 2014
    The 50 Year Argument

    The 50 Year Argument (2014)

    The 50 Year Argument

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    Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival mater...

    The 50 Year Argument
  • 1982
    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982)

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

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    Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays
  • 1994
    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady (1994)

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

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    Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a semiconfessional view of her life's landscape. Childhood memories of her father, a doctor, and her mother, an artist, are warmly rendered in scenes of th...

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
  • 1991
    Miller Meets Mandela

    Miller Meets Mandela (1991)

    Miller Meets Mandela

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    For the first time since his release from 27 years of imprisonment Nelson Mandela opens up about his life and the turbulent times he's faced in this momentous, in-depth and revealing interview with Arthur Miller. From the intimate setting at his home...

    Miller Meets Mandela
  • 2003
    The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

    The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)

    The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

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    Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as actor stretches from Brighton Rock to Jurassic Park, while as director he has been responsible for Oh! ...

    The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
  • 1983
    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano (1983)

    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

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    A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera....

    Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
  • 2012
    Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - Arena: The Day She Came to Dingle

    Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - Arena: The Day She Came to Dingle (2012)

    Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - Arena: The Day She Came to Dingle

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    Back in 2006 on a stormy December night, Amy Winehouse flew to the remote, south western corner of Ireland to perform for Other Voices, an acclaimed Irish TV music series filmed in Dingle every winter. Amy took to the stage of Saint James's church, c...

    Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - Arena: The Day She Came to Dingle
  • 1982
    The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

    The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982)

    The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

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    A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. 'Dagenham dustbin'? 'Poor man's Rolls-Royce'? In the year ...

    The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
  • 1984
    The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

    The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel (1984)

    The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

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    Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival interviews, and commentary from scholars and contemporaries including Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and...

    The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
  • 1998
    The Brian Epstein Story

    The Brian Epstein Story (1998)

    The Brian Epstein Story

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    Documentary on the life of Brian Epstein, the man who brought The Beatles to fame. A Documentary examining the turbulent life and career of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Gay when homosexuality was illegal, a gambler, shopkeeper and failed actor, he...

    The Brian Epstein Story
  • 2001
    According to Beryl

    According to Beryl (2001)

    According to Beryl

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    Beryl Bainbridge on Samuel Johnson and her novel According To Queenie - Johnson through the eyes of Queenie Thrale, the eldest daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale....

    According to Beryl
  • 2003
    Imagine Imagine

    Imagine Imagine (2003)

    Imagine Imagine

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    This British documentary is more than an analysis of John Lennon's song "Imagine" and its ramifications for the world we live in, it's a tentative documentary on John (and Yoko)'s art and songs' influence on a lot of people in all parts of the world ...

    Imagine Imagine
  • 1999
    Wisconsin Death Trip

    Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

    Wisconsin Death Trip

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    Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade of Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 19th century....

    Wisconsin Death Trip
  • 1990
    Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

    Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)

    Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

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    Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhood that influenced her writing....

    Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
  • 2020
    The Changin' Times of Ike White

    The Changin' Times of Ike White (2020)

    The Changin' Times of Ike White

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    Ike White was a musical prodigy who recorded a funk and soul classic album inside a Californian prison in 1974. Then he disappeared. 30 years later, director Dan Vernon tracked him down, only to find a trail of wives, lives and false identities that ...

    The Changin' Times of Ike White