Movies: Bbc Four

  • 2010
    The Secret Life of Chaos

    The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)

    The Secret Life of Chaos

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    Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos...

    The Secret Life of Chaos
  • 2014
    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II (2014)

    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

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    Deep Purple is one of the most influential and important guitar bands in history, one of the godfathers of the heavy metal genre, with over 100 million album sales worldwide to their name. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Deep Purple's groundbrea...

    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II
  • 2003
    Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)

    Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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    Gil Scott-Heron was one of the most influential musicians and poets of the last 50 years. In Don Letts's documentary, Gil tells his own story for the first time-from being one of the first black children to integrate an all white Southern state schoo...

    Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  • 2021
    Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story

    Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story (2021)

    Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story

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    Brit Award-winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne, in this one-off BBC Four documentary....

    Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
  • 2004
    Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

    Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (2004)

    Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

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    The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes inte...

    Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
  • 2006
    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006)

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

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    Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his homosexuality in 1950s Britain. This film follows his life and eventual death based on the many dia...

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
  • 2024
    Joan Rivers at the BBC

    Joan Rivers at the BBC (2024)

    Joan Rivers at the BBC

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    Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first lady of laughter, Joan Rivers....

    Joan Rivers at the BBC
  • 2018
    The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

    The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci (2018)

    The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

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    Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge....

    The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci
  • 2011
    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse (2011)

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

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    The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private archive of films, TV shows, letters and memorabilia that he left behind....

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
  • 2010
    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up (2010)

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

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    Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and taking risks is now about longevity, survival, nostalgia and refusing to grow up, give up or shut up. But ...

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up
  • 2014
    Under Milk Wood

    Under Milk Wood (2014)

    Under Milk Wood

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    An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost though...

    Under Milk Wood
  • 2006
    Laughing With Hitler

    Laughing With Hitler (2006)

    Laughing With Hitler

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    "Laughing with Hitler" is a journey into a supposedly humorless time. In the Third Reich, however, the Führer and his Nazi bigwigs were laughed at. The political jokes of the Hitler years were a barometer of true public opinion. But those who dared t...

    Laughing With Hitler
  • 2013
    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog (2013)

    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

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    Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in a peat bog in Cashel in the Irish midlands...

    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog
  • 2011
    Everything and Nothing

    Everything and Nothing (2011)

    Everything and Nothing

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    what is everything, and what is nothing? Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness. EVERYTHING: what the universe might actually look like and the remarka...

    Everything and Nothing
  • 2019
    Gauguin: A Dangerous Life

    Gauguin: A Dangerous Life (2019)

    Gauguin: A Dangerous Life

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    Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his ...

    Gauguin: A Dangerous Life
  • 2003
    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well

    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well (2003)

    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well

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    Profile of veteran country singer Emmylou Harris, witnessing the heady success of her career while also discussing her late flowering of intensely personal and groundbreaking music, dealing with loss and the passing years....

    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well
  • 2007
    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays (2007)

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

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    Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Martin Hannett in the late 1970s, it became known as the home of Joy Divsion, ...

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays
  • 2013
    Dusty Springfield at the BBC

    Dusty Springfield at the BBC (2013)

    Dusty Springfield at the BBC

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    A selection of Dusty Springfield's performances at the BBC from 1961 to 1995, from her folk beginnings with The Springfields through to her collaboration with Pet Shop Boys....

    Dusty Springfield at the BBC
  • 2004
    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe

    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe (2004)

    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe

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    William Shakespeare's darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the play was broadcast on BBC4 on Sept 4, 2004. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fras...

    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe
  • 2012
    Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

    Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (2012)

    Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

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    Documentary following English folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention as they celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2012. Fairport's iconic 1969 album Liege and Lief featured some of folk music's biggest names - including singer Sandy Denny, guitarist R...

    Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?