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- Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
- A television show broadcast live and unedited from places in the UK and around the world.
- The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
- Award winning in-depth arts journalism series reporting on cinema around the globe.
- Documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema which looks at how technological innovations - from widescreen to 3D, Cinemara to Showscan and IMAX - have shaped our perception of reality. Featuring exclusive footage of the making of Hollywood's first 3D IMAX film, 'Wings of Courage', and rare interviews with and footage of many of cinema's key pioneers.
- As Serb forces close in on Srebrenica a Serbian mother seeks the body of her 11-year old son, who was tortured and killed by Muslims in Bosnia.
- Documentary report on township violence in South Africa, focusing on the hospital in Soweto which deals with more 100 victims of assault every night in addition to trying to cope with a growing AIDS problem.
- Documentary series in which America's most notorious televised trials are showcased and analyzed by leading legal minds.
- A seven part series on the various historical cultural legacies of the Caribbean.
- A four-part series which marks 50 years of the often troubled evolution of the Welfare State as it endeavored to tackle and overcome the four principal social concerns of housing, education, health and poverty.
- The Comic Relief celebrity football team travel to Africa to play football against the local teams.
- A series of short (two/three minute) films originally broadcast as part of the BBC's 'Forbidden Weekend'. In each film a celebrity shares their memories of their first 'X' rated movies.
- Hailed as "the greatest public health success story of all time," today childhood immunization faces obstacles never seen before. While immunization still saves three million young lives each year, millions more could be saved if there were enough vaccine...and enough political will to protect all children in need. Sometimes war is the enemy of immunization, sometimes ethnic distrust, rumors and misinformation. But there are heroes as well-people dedicated to bringing vaccination to every child, everywhere. Filmed on location in Africa, Asia, and Europe, "Fragile Lives-Immunization at Risk" brings to life the human face of vaccines and immunization, their promises, and their challenges.
- A documentary examining the counter-factual possibility that Martin Luther King became president of the United States. The story is told using 're-contextuallised' archive and interviews with real politicians and civil rights veterans who role-play their contributions in a different reality.
- A documentary on the life of actress Carol White, the lead in the 1960s BBC drama 'Up The Junction'.
- From recently declassified secret recordings, this Secret History Special explores the remarkable private world of United States President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
- The Fisher King, Dead Again, Shattered and Regarding Henry all feature characters who have lost their memories. Moving Pictures talks to the writers, directors and producers of this spate of films, including Fisher King director Terry Gilliam. And a look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a black writer/producer/director who made more than 40 features between 1910 and the 1940s. Plus Werner Herzog, maverick of the German cinema, on why he risks life and limb making movies in some of the world's most dangerous terrain.
- First -time director Barry Sonnenfeld talks about his $35 million comedy based on the cult cartoons of Charles Addams, The Addams Family, starring Anjelica Huston. Plus a profile of Samuel Z. Arkoff, the legendary B-movie producer who gave Corman, Coppola, Scorsese, Woody Allen and John Milius their breaks. And Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse talks about her first film.
- Steven Soderbergh, director of the award-winning Sex, Lies and Videotape, has just completed his long-awaited second feature. Refusing lucrative offers from Hollywood for big-budget studio projects, Soderbergh opted instead for Kafka, a black-and-white film starring Jeremy Irons. Soderbergh and his collaborators talk exclusively to Moving Pictures about life after Sex. Plus an affectionate look at a family whose experience spans the postwar British cinema - the Thomases. Jeremy Thomas produced Bertolucci's Oscar-laden Last Emperor; his father Ralph directed Dirk Bogarde in the Doctor films, while uncle Gerald was responsible for the Carry On cycle.
- Featuring a report on director Robert Altman. After The Long Goodbye, M*A*S*H and Nashville, he has made The Player - a satire about the movie business. Plus the New York homicide cop who advises Hollywood writers on getting murder right on screen; and maverick film-maker Errol Morris.
- In the first of its new series, BBC2's weekly cinema night presents a celebration of CinemaScope. Directors Michael Mann, Philip Noyce (Patriot Games), and Paul Verhoeven extol the wonders of widescreen cinema on its 40th anniversary. There's a look at how Quentin Tarantino, a 29-year-old video store manager, became Hollywood's hottest new talent with his debut feature Reservoir Dogs. And novelist J.G. Ballard on why David Lynch's controversial Blue Velvet was "the best film of the 1980s".
- Joe Eszterhas is the highest paid screenwriter in the world. He got$3 million for his latest film Basic Instinct. He is also the most controversial writer in Hollywood - currently accusing his ex-agent of threatening to murder him, attacking the cult of the director and offering to do a complete rewrite halfway through shooting to appease protesters about Basic Instinct's lesbian killer. In tonight's programme, the basic instincts of a bestselling screenwriter are discussed by Eszterhas, his collaborators (directors Costa-Gavras and Norman Jewison) and his critics. Plus, French director Bertrand Blier on his latest surreal comedy Merci la vie.
- BBC2's weekly cinema night takes a look at transformation movies, and interviews Percy Adlon, director of the cult hit Bagdad Cafe. Plus why three directors regard 1930s French writer-director Jean Vigo as one of cinema's greatest film-makers.
- Skip Lievsay discusses "designing sound" for the films Cape Fear, Matewan and Barton Fink. There's a profile of the film studios at Babelsberg in Berlin where Metropolis, The Blue Angel and Baron Munchhausen were made, and an interview with Wim Wenders, whose Until the End of the World was partly shot there last year. Also, how three first time writer-directors, whose new films were rejected by the usual British backers, raised their money in unusual ways. David Cohen (The Pleasure Principle) got his budget from his NatWest bank manager. Mark Peploe (Afraid of the Dark), raised European co-production money, and Mark Harmon took his Blame It on the Bellboy script to Disney.
- A profile of macho maverick writer/director James Toback on the eve of the release of Bugsy (1991), a gangster film starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, for which he wrote the screenplay. Plus a look at French cinema, which is taking a leaf out of Hollywood's book and releasing four films about their colonial past in Indo-China - including Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Lover (1992) and Indochine (1992), starring Catherine Deneuve.
- Writer/director Lawrence Kasdan talks about his new film, Grand Canyon (1991). Plus, Serbian film-maker Dusan Makavejev on the cinema of civil war; and Charles Bennett, who wrote Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929) in 1929, still writing in his 90s.
- An appraisal of cultural icon, Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell in the TV series Till Death Do Us Part and In Sickness and in Health).
- Tony Parsons delivers an essay on the state of the sex war, he suggests that there are some things that women do better than men: weeping, shopping and housework.
- Ghana hits back at the pirating of music cassettes. A Tanzanian town springs up overnight as gold is discovered. Kenya attempts to reduce road deaths caused by minibus touts.
- An unlikely location for a positive story is a Johannesburg squatters camp where its first school transforms the lives of thousands of children. Emerging businesswomen in Nigeria and animal conservation in Kenya rounds out the program.