Movies: Bbc Four
- 2010
The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)
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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...
- 2006
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006)
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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...
- 2024
Joan Rivers at the BBC (2024)
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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....
- 2003
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
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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...
- 2014
Under Milk Wood (2014)
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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...
- 2014
Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II (2014)
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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...
- 2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (2004)
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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...
- 2021
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story (2021)
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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....
- 2003
Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well (2003)
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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....
- 2005
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary (2005)
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On October 5th 1962, the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do. It was a moment that changed music history and popular culture forever. It was also an extraordinary year in social and cultural history, not just for Liverpool but for the wor...
- 2007
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story (2007)
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Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it back to the fans. Stiff's successes included Nick Lowe, the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Madness,...
- 2011
The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse (2011)
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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....
- 2018
The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci (2018)
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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....
- 2019
Gauguin: A Dangerous Life (2019)
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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 ...
- 2013
Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy (2013)
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Profile of singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, a story of success, disgrace and redemption....
- 2006
Laughing With Hitler (2006)
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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...
- 2004
The Making of King Arthur (2004)
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Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004)....
- 2007
Doris Day: Virgin Territory (2007)
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Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her early years as a band singer, and her troubled private life, this documentary re-evaluates one of th...
- 2007
Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays (2007)
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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, ...
- 2013
4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog (2013)
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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...