Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - The Winters Tale
Exquisitely sculpted and lifelike puppets perform this touching tale of rage, remorse and forgiveness. The King's fit of temper results in the death of his wife Hermione and his young son, and his baby daughter Perdita is banished. Sixteen years lat...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Hamlet
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic d...
The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 2: The Independent Auteur
About this title: While one half of Hollywood is the big budget action film, the other half is the socially and psychologically conscious Indie. From John Cassavetes to the Coen brothers, program two focuses on the independent auteur, the director a...
Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell
This epic film takes us on a high-tech adventure inside our own cells, revealing an alien world few have ever seen before - and reveals our eternal battle against the threat of invading viruses.
Like something out of science-fiction, the battle of ...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - King Richard lll
The richly rewarding technique of painting on glass has been uniquely explored for this blackest of black comedies. No compassion is shown by the hunchback King Richard, whose unquenchable thirst for power destroys his wife, his brother, his best fr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Macbeth
The all-enveloping evil of Shakespeare's bloodiest work is captured with arresting and graphic intensity by powerful cel animation. Awash with murder, madness and dark forces, it is easy to understand the superstition that causes those in the theatr...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 2: One Small Step
About this title: Discusses the ability to walk upright, which is considered a crucial step in the development of humankind. Documents the discovery of the oldest human footprints in the world by Mary Leakey near Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Also disc...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 4: Beyond Africa
About this title: Richard Leakey tells the story of Peking Man, who used fire for heat and light and possibly for cooking. He also explores the increasing intelligence of our ancestors, and launches into a discussion on how and why humans began to s...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 5: A New Era
About this title: Richard Leakey details the emergence of our species, Homo sapiens, and explores some of the astonishing art our ancestors left behind, including the beautiful cave of Lascaux.
About the Series: Narrated by palaeo-anthropologist Ri...
The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 3: Immigrant Filmakers
About this title: Hollywood has always attracted foreign directors with unique outsider perspective and filmmaking traditions, including film masters such as Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Ang Lee. Program three presents the impa...