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- Testimony is a short film that uses dance to embody the trauma experienced by sexual assault survivors/victims in court.
- How the native peoples of Australia, Rurutu, New Zealand and Hawaii create their traditional artifacts and what key roles they play in their cultures.
- Superstar opera tenor Rolando Villazón reveals an insider's view on performing music by one of the greatest opera composers, Giuseppe Verdi, who celebrates his bicentenary in 2013. By looking at some of Verdi's most well-known works including the operas Macbeth, Rigoletto, La Traviata, as well as his Requiem, Villazón shares his unique and passionate insight on Verdi's consummate skill - how he constructed dramatic episodes of searing reality, as well as the historical context in which the operas are set.
- Rockumentary following British rock band Pulp on their 1995 UK tour.
- The story of 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, when over half of the member nations boycotted the event over the issue of sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime.
- French best-selling author Michel Houellebecq drinks and smokes his way through the chaos and death threats surrounding the publication of his latest novel.
- The biggest names on the buzzing UK scene play in a special edition of the iconic jazz show. Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia, Kokoroko and Ezra Collective headline an amazing line-up.
- Dr Hannah Fry and a virtual host present a new way of making television, as the BBC uses artificial intelligence to delve into the treasures of the BBC Archive.
- Dr. Andrew Hussey explores the culinary history of France, and how political and societal upheaval directly influenced the country's cuisine.
- Dan Cruickshank explores how London survived the travails of the 17th century.
- Art historian Professor Richard Clay explores how Mythologies, written in 1957 by French philosopher Roland Barthes, laid bare the myth-making at the heart of popular culture.
- A look at the roles of female characters in opera and how they are all, in different ways, fallen women.
- Filmed over 12 months, with unprecedented access, this landmark film follows the English National Opera as they pursue the challenge of staging Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
- How, at the start of the 1990s, Top of the Pops learned to embrace the new sounds of hip-hop, dance and the indie underground. With contributions from Adamski, Seal and Betty Boo.
- Ana Matronic presents this one-off documentary discovering the dos and don'ts of keeping the dream alive after a pop star is gone. She reveals how some stars planned for their legacy while others left behind a terrible mess.
- A tribute to the British composer, who died in March 2016.
- Celebrating the next generation of female filmmakers, these short films from BBC Introducing Arts are all made by women. Presented by Janina Ramirez, these talented, emerging artists use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective.
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- A feast of cover versions of Bob Dylan songs from the BBC archives, with classic tracks old and new and some surprises from the 1960s to the present.
- Madness's performance was part of the 16th year of the Eden Sessions. They played some of their best-loved songs, including House Of Fun, Baggy Trousers, Our House and Night Boat To Cairo, to a sold-out arena. The Eden Sessions began in 2002 and are renowned for the stature of the artists they attract and the unique setting of the Eden arena against the backdrop of the biomes.
- Series of documentaries looking at the careers of four titans of African-American music: Janet Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie and Public Enemy.
- Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only is a special 90-minute live show paying tribute to the iconic 1960s BBC Two jazz show of the same name.
- Islamic State has declared war on the most important ancient architectural sites in the world. Dan Cruickshank charts its destructive advance and asks what we can do to stop them.
- Smash hits from 60 years of great cover versions in performance from the BBC TV archive.
- Journalist and documentary filmmaker Richard Butchins examines the representations of dwarfs in art and culture revealing society's shifting attitudes towards people with dwarfism.
- World-renowned, shamanistic artist Barry Flanagan was one of the world's foremost figurative sculptors, with his work exhibited in streetscapes such as Park Avenue in New York, the Champs Elysées in Paris and O'Connell Street in Dublin. His trademark hare sculptures marked him out as an innovator and he once described himself as an English-speaking itinerant European sculptor. In this documentary, one-man filmmaker Peter Bach embarks on a personal journey by making a vow to Flanagan, who at the time is wrestling with motor neuron disease on the island of Ibiza, that he will travel the world and bring back footage of strangers by his public works and film the artist watching them as he wrestles with his disease. This journey of discovery takes us across Europe and the United States and is a celebration and homage to Flanagan's work.
- Compilation of BBC archive performances by country artists, including Tammy Wynette, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson.
- World-class vocal ensemble Tenebrae give a special performance of music for Easter.
- To mark the 100th anniversary of the first time tanks were used in battle, Rob Bell tells the story of the First World War tank men.
- Under the trenches and fields of the Somme lies a complex and extensive network of tunnels. Here, beneath the wastes of No Man's Land, British and German miners risked a terrible death in trying to "undermine" the enemy, laying charges that would wreak death and destruction in the tunnels around them and in the trenches above.