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- When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
- At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.
- To return home and restore his cursed crew, a great hero of space and his child companions must find the Kingdom of Hades against all evil opposition.
- When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
- Noted author and scholar finds love, then must endure its loss...
- A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola.
- Barnum the musical traces Phineas Taylor Barnum's career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum is a defender of "the noble art of humbug" with a philosophy, and has a free wheeling ambition to make a fortune. He buys the oldest woman in the world, named Joyce Heath, as a sideshow attraction. Barnum builds a museum of curiosities supported by his wife Charity, who would like him to settle down.
- Women join Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue musical theater troupe, portraying men's roles. The film explores gender dynamics, desires, and complexities of female identity in Japanese society through these performers' experiences.
- A double-DVD set which features over five hours of previously unreleased concert and archival performance footage from Led Zeppelin, spanning the years 1969 to 1979.
- Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
- Elizabeth Archard plays the overly optimistic orphan, Pollyanna, in this timeless heart-warming BBC mini-series based on the best-selling novel and classic child literature by Eleanor Porter. Pollyanna goes to live with her lonely, bitter old Aunt Polly (Elaine Stritch) after the death of her beloved father. Despite being paralyzed in a horrible accident, her sunny nature and determination to look on the brighter side of life has an astonishing effect on the lives of everyone she encounters, including an old hermit (Donald Bisset), an orphaned boy (Stephen Galloway), and her doctor (Paul Maxwell). Will all the people whose lives she's brightened be able to make her happy again?
- The musical adventures in which a little boy reluctantly befriends a spider.
- TV adaptation of the popular series of children's books about the comical adventures of two skeletons and their skeletal dog.
- Tom Baker watches clips of all the serials in which he acted as 'Doctor Who', and provides ad lib anecdotes and reminiscences.
- Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf.
- A scientist named Griffin invents a way to change his body's refractive index and thus becomes invisible. He uses the opportunity to carry out random acts of violence.
- At last, for the first time here is a major new series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of this century. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection.
- Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother.
- The Power and the Glory was a 13-part television documentary series shown between 4 October and 27 December 1991 on BBC2. The series covers 100 years of motor racing history.
- A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. Warhol coined the word "superstar," became one, and changed the way the culture looks at and understands celebrity. After studying at Carnegie Tech, he goes to New York to be a commercial artist. By 1960, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist are inventing pop art. Warhol starts "The Factory," his workshop where he paints and makes movies. His is a cafe society of late nights and parties. His family, friends, an agent, a curator, gallery owners, actors, the co-founder of "Interview," and others tell stories and assess his art.
- The secret World War II role that scientists and engineers played on each side in various rivalries of military technical innovations and countermeasures.
- Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.
- A series presenting various railway adventures from around the world.
- Six famous operas beautifully brought to screen with various animation techniques. Cell animation, stop motion etc. Each opera a different artist and all lasts half an hour.
- A documentary that explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese.
- Documentary following American horse trainer and Monty Roberts, who is known for his gentle training methods based on natural horsemanship.
- An documentarian from the BBC visits the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). This documentary shouldn't be viewed as a making of the film, but rather a goof-off session that is simply there to conjure up laughter.
- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- Jon Pertwee presents a look at the era of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. Featuring the only surviving episodes from the stories "The Abominable Snowmen", "The Enemy of the World" and "The Space Pirates".
- Raymond Carver's short stories and poems provide important insights into his life, where the seeds for his stories can be found. They are brilliant in their own right and give the viewer an intimate, close-up look at this literary genius.
- A series presenting various narrow gauge railway adventures from around the world.
- A compilation from the Embassy World Professional Snooker Championships.
- News coverage of the 1982 Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentina, including military operations on sea and land. While most of the footage is British, some is from Argentine sources.
- A thoughtful look at Jean Renoir's attempts to work within the Hollywood system during the 1940's, and his return to Europe as an international filmmaker in the 1950's.
- Footage of a Johnny Cash concert at Wembley Arena in 1981.
- A retrospective on Billy Connolly's 25 years as one of Britain's top comedians, featuring clips from many of his TV appearances mixed with new footage.
- In a special documentary made for public television in the United States, Eric Luskin goes behind the scenes of the 25th anniversary story Silver Nemesis: Part One (1988) to interview the cast and crew.
- Traces the lives of London's infamous gangsters, the Kray twins. From early youth to imprisonment, with insight from people who knew them.
- The topical impressionist's move from the BBC to Channel 4 begins with this new year's special, casting back over the many voices of 1992.
- A one-off special programme reuniting prominent television figures of the 1950s, together with clips from the decade.
- A narrator gives a guided tour about George Bernard Shaw, the famous Nobel prize winning playwright, in England.
- "A hilarious collection of TV foul-ups, bleeps and blunders" from the BBC archives, edited together without narration.
- Recorded and aired live by ABC-TV on 6th April 1974 at the Ontario Speedway near Los Angeles CA. Video produced by Tony Edwards. One of the most controversial rock festivals of the seventies had to be the 'California Jam-Festival, which included E.L.P, Black Sabbath, Eagles, Rare Earth and of course the headliner: Deep Purple. 200,000 visitors witnessed the havoc caused when, during the performance, Ritchie Blackmore started to destroy ABC's tv cameras! The track "Lay down, stay down" was also done but was later edited off by some strange reason. The concert was subsequently released on CD in 1996.