The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz’s 911 call deemed Kurtz’s art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected "bioterrorist" as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impou...
Six part UK drama series following a woman's efforts to clear her country-singer husband's name after he is arrested for dealing drugs.
In this six part BBC series, John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portral of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondant Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissi Cr...
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through fields and historic neighborhoods, past lakes and massive concrete apartment buildings, the Wall is a constant presence.
In 1988 the British director Cynthia Beatt, who is based in Berlin, embarked on a journey into little-known territory. She filmed Tilda Swinton as they followed the Berlin Wall, capturing the inward-looking West Berlin and the over-the-Wall views of East Berlin. Today “Cycling the Frame“ is a rare historic document and Tilda Swinton, who was honoured with the Oscar last year, i...
Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet Antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and still-pristine...
根据冰岛古代神话改编而成的实验叙事片《萨迦火山》，讲述一个中世纪的年青女人寻找能解释她做的四个有预言的梦的智者的故事。在女人的四个梦中她都丢失了一块头巾和一只戒指，智者说它们与她未来的四个丈夫将有联系。故事由女人的画外音叙述，琼·乔纳斯出演老年的女人，蒂埃达·斯文顿则出演年青时的她，在四个梦之间还插入了有象征含义的车祸事件、幽灵、离奇的幻影、和冰岛的野生动植物画面，随着火山喷发画面的出现，所有的景象被全部打乱并重新组合。
A documentary focused on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth cent...
