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For the first time in 40 years African skies resound to the roar of a flying boat. Alexander Frater boards a wartime Catalina in search of the...

A documentary featuring the making of the July 1987 recording of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony conducted by magazine publisher Gilbert Kaplan, who...

A businessman having a nervous breakdown checks in for one last night at a shabby hotel where he composes a suicide note. The hotel owner intervenes...

Records the run up to Christmas 1980 in Dallas, Texas, from the point of view of the city's largest department store, Neiman-Marcus.

When a down-at-heel, alcoholic physician discovers a medical kit, based on future technology, accidentally left in the wake of a time-travel...

Describes the natural resources of Haida Gwaii and its relationship with the Haida. The video opens with a creation myth and develops in a...

A profile from 1972 of celebrated Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In this film he talks about his uncompromising...

A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah

Film about the Parisian nightclub Concert Mayol, one of the last bastions of the traditional Parisian nude show. The film follows the final three...

This episode of the BBC television documentary series Man Alive documents the daily activities of Engine Co. 82 / Ladder 31 ("the busiest firehouse...