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This charming, eccentric and acclaimed British documentary is a meditative study of a small farming community in mid-Wales, observing the unalterable rhythms of country life and the monthly visits of ...

News reporters Tony and Sally Adams visit a nudist centre at a country hotel in South Devon. The beach at Slapton Sands Nature Reserve and nearby Pilchard Cove have been frequented by nudist bathers ...

Kubrick’s epic sci-fi chronicling humanity’s progress from its primitive beginnings through to some kind of rebirth is also a fable about power, curiosity and control. Dazzling to look at, it’s ...

Striking, illuminating and sometimes surprising images of black culture, community and characters, spanning over a century of British film and TV.

From Victorian voyeurism to Soho striptease: how a hidden film industry emerged to satisfy the sexual appetites of (male) viewers.

Ridley Scott’s first film – featuring his younger brother, the late Tony Scott, as a schoolboy playing truant for the day to meander around Hartlepool on his bicycle – is a far cry from the director’s ...

Blending ‘fictional’ re-creation, archive footage and musical performance, Pat Collins’ formally inventive, engagingly impressionistic film about Irish folk singer Joe Heaney is no conventional biopic ...

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This striking film re-stages an episode from the second Matabele war between the British South African Company and the Ndebele Kingdom led by King Lobengula. It was re-enacted from performances by the ...