In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

Conveyor belt idlers in construction and operation.

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly...

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting...

Follows Sutcliffe employees constructing a Super Goliath conveyor in a factory, along with coal miners operating the machinery in a colliery.

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...

Documentary about the early career of Hollywood film director John Ford, written and presented by Lindsay Anderson, and first aired on the British...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone...

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the...

Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, who explains...

A short documentary profiling male impersonator Hetty King, a star of the Edwardian music hall still performing in her 87th year. Accompanied by her...

Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"

Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...