Movies: Bbc Four

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip (2018)

    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

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    Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur to find the answer. En route, they meet Richard Branson and Eddie Izzard, and many other successful dy...

    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip
  • 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!
  • 2007
    If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

    If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story (2007)

    If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

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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,...

    If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary (2005)

    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

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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...

    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
  • 2004
    The Making of King Arthur

    The Making of King Arthur (2004)

    The Making of King Arthur

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    Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004)....

    The Making of King Arthur
  • 2018
    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History

    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History (2018)

    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History

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    Well-known fans celebrate Stevie Wonder and his music by selecting some of his best-loved songs. Wonder is one of the dominant figures in American music, a multi-faceted genius whose music has permeated popular culture, and he is not short of celebri...

    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Hancock & Joan

    Hancock & Joan (2008)

    Hancock & Joan

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    Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career....

    Hancock & Joan
  • 2010
    Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster

    Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster (2010)

    Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster

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    Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos and eye witness accounts - this is the inside story of the world's biggest motorsport disaster....

    Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster
  • 2007
    Doris Day: Virgin Territory

    Doris Day: Virgin Territory (2007)

    Doris Day: Virgin Territory

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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...

    Doris Day: Virgin Territory
  • 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
  • 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