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- Documentary about the Tube, the world's oldest underground system, with its own unwritten rules of behaviour and protocol, and used by three million passengers every day.
- A profile of the famous Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman through the eyes of three people who interviewed him.
- An in-depth look at the life and work of T.S. Eliot, one of the 20th century's most important literary figures.
- Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham tells how Buddy Holly's songs Peggy Sue and Peggy Sue Got Married came to be written. She went to the same high school as Holly and married drummer Jerry Allison. Other people recall the era, including Donna Fox who inspired Ritchie Valens' song, Donna.
- A pilot for a never made feature length film, about a dying movie director.
- First of two documentaries celebrating the National Theatre's 50th anniversary, with contributions from artistic directors, playwrights and stars such as Dame Joan Plowright.
- Exploring the relationship of artist Stanley Spencer's daughters, Unity and Shirin, as they try to understand and reclaim their father and investigate their family's archaeology.
- A profile of the legendary comedy actor Eric Sykes.
- A tribute to the Liverpudlian comic Ken Dodd. He discusses his 50-year career and the influences of his comedy style.
- An insight into the private obsessions and insecurities of the author of Lord of the Flies. With contributions from his daughter and son and bestselling author Stephen King.
- Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre from its opening in 1976 to the fulfilment of Olivier's original dream.
- After years of telling the story of Christian art, Sister Wendy Beckett tells her own.
- 1975– 1h 37m7.1 (10)TV EpisodeMartin Scorsese's documentary film charting literary, political and cultural history as per the New York Review of Books, America's leading journal of ideas since 1963.
- Tells the story behind Lou Reed's song Walk on the Wild Side. The characters named in it were people who frequented Andy Warhol's studio in the late 1960s. Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro are the only "superstars" who have survived and they are interviewed in the programme. The programme presents a snapshot of a certain moment in the life of New York's underground culture.
- An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more.
- An outline and retrospective of the heavy metal genre that swept the world in the 1980s.
- 1975– 1h6.9 (13)TV EpisodeFrankie Howard looks back on his life and career.
- 1975– 1h 30m6.9 (13)TV EpisodeA programme making the case for the greatness of British films of the 40s, 50s and 60s.
- 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.
- A film profile of the controversial Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty.
- A Bob Dylan performance of songs expressing his new-found Christianity in the late 70s, enhanced by a series of sermons between the songs, written by the actor Michael Shannon.
- The year 1977 was a crucial one in the life of reggae superstar Bob Marley. Forced to leave Jamaica he made an album in London, Exodus, that propelled his music and message of Rastafari across the planet.
- Documentary telling the story of the genesis of the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, with contributions from caricaturists Peter Fluck and Roger Law and producer John Lloyd.
- Arena spends the summer with super cool self-confessed rock chick, Chrissie Hynde - shopping for clothes in Paris, hanging out with Sandra Bernhard in New York, life in London and a special trip back to her home town of Akron, Ohio.
- 1975–7.1 (20)TV Episode
- 1975– 1h 35m7.6 (20)TV Episode
- Arena documentary chronicles the life and work of one of Britain's greatest actors.
- International EMMY and RTS nominated portrait of the artist Francis Bacon.
- A woman is recalled to Britain from the Arctic, where she has spent twenty years working with people who build their houses from snow, and given the task of investigating 'the predicament of the house'. She discovers that in Britain, unlike in Japan, the global economy has not managed to bring down the price of new houses, and indeed the principal effect of the digital economy has been to create wealth which has raised the market price of the existing, dilapidated housing stock. In a supermarket, the kind of building to which the techniques of low-cost mass building have been successfully applied, she meets an old friend and they fall in love; they look for somewhere to settle down. Investigating the utopian architects Constant, Buckminster Fuller and the Archigram group she finds that their ideas have all failed to affect the housing economy, and that only 28% of house buyers in Britain would consider buying a new house, and that at the current rate of building, each house now standing in Britain will have to last for more than 5,000 years. At both the rich and poor ends of society, some have succeded in escaping dilapidated dwellings. Wealthy individual architects have put systemic building theories into practice: she visits the Eames house, built from factory-made parts. She sees the revival of interest in social housing and visits both Goldfinger's Trellick Tower and an estate in Byker. She is disappointed to discover that the architects of the millennium village at Greenwich have disowned the project once the developers have put it into practice. Finally, she reflects that it may never be possible to reconcile the needs of the dwelling place with the globalised economy.
- In his late eighties, film director Nicolas Roeg looks back over his career.
- A profile of the musician Brian Eno.
- Documentary telling the story of the day Amy Winehouse recorded a stunning acoustic performance in a church in the small Irish fishing village of Dingle in 2006.
- 1975– 1h 9m8.3 (37)TV EpisodeThe life and time of comedy genius Peter Sellers, told with the help of his extraordinary collections of home movies and featuring interviews with family, friends and colleagues.
- BAFTA and BPG Award winning second part of the film star's life from the release of VICTIM (1961) to the author's death in 1999.
- Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual partnership. Includes clips from many of their films.
- A film essay about stalking and being stalked, based on the memoirs of a British academic, but also own meditation by the film maker about cinema, cities and absence
- On the 90th anniversary of its construction, a team of dedicated filmmakers rebuilds America's original electric recording device - and captures "lightning-in-a-bottle" single-take performances from some of today's top musicians.
- A tribute to one of Britain's most acclaimed actors.
- 1975– 55m6.8 (48)TV EpisodeArena presents the greatest Beatles story never told - the making of Magical Mystery Tour - full of fabulous Beatles archive material never shown before anywhere in the world.
- BAFTA and BPG Award winning first part of a televisual life of the film actor who died in 1999, drawing on new video footage from the archive of Bogarde's long-term partner and manager Anthony Forwood.
- BBC documentary that catches scenes in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
- Between a deceased father and a young boy, Chris Petit wonders and wanders through concepts of the past and self-identity.