It features an aging performer towards the end of her life. The story is told through the lyrics of her song. She is dragging herself around the country, performing her show wherever she can get a booking - to quote from the song - 'Well fame alone won't pay the bills'. It is a poignant tribute to fading celebrity. The performer is watched by members of the audience and those working in the theatre where she appears. Although it is an effort, she can still come alive on stage.
Daniel is about to get it all - the girl, the dream, the way out of his poor Buenos Aires neighbourhood. There is only one problem - he has to betray his best friend.
Set against the backdrop of London's urban music scene, Life and Lyrics follows the journey of a south London DJ, Danny, and his crew as they battle on stage with their north London rivals. Life & Lyrics is also a story of unrequited love as Danny unwittingly falls for a singer from the rival crew, soon forced to realise the dangers and implications involved.
Orpheus the greatest musician ever. A Rock star like no other he has gone into hiding. However, stirred into a search for his wife Eurydice. He embarks on a quest that will take him to and through the land of death itself.
Inspired by the work of Edgar Degas the film captures Scottish Ballet Corps stretching, chatting, improvising and preparing in the wings. We are presented with a palpable sense of not just what it looks like, but what it feels like to inhabit a dancer's body.
In the mid 1970s, a revolution was ignited on the streets of London and New York - almost overnight it shattered the status quo and would have a lasting impact on future generations of youth culture. It redefined popular music and fashion, threatened the establishment, and legitimised an independent, do-it-yourself attitude. With a star-studded cast of historic and modern figures in popular culture, this feature-length film takes a highly original look at the Punk movement.
Combining recent interviews with rare and famous archival performances, a chronological narrative emerges, allowing this incredible story to tell itself.
Singing from the Heart is a documentary programme that takes a look at the history and men that make up one of the world's most famous male voice choirs.
Formed in 1883 in a hometown pub in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales, the voices of Treorchy Male Choir have performed in front of kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers. Now, for the first time you too can enjoy a private audience with the voices of the valleys in this hour-long documentary.
Brian Jones was the consummate artist, pop star, fashion icon and womaniser. During the seven short years of his glittering rise to stardom and fateful plummet between 1962 and 1969, he became a music legend by creating The Rolling Stones, one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever seen.
Described as one of the most decadent men of the 20th century, he rebelled against everything and when he wasn't hating the world, he adored it. However, his copious consumption of drugs and alcohol was legendary and fuelled a vicious temper.
This is not the story of The Rolling Stones. This is a murder mystery about the death of one of the most talented musicians of the 1960s. He died at the hands of someone he barely knew, on a friendless summer night, having cried wolf for the very last time.
A ghost story. Set in the 1940s. Inspired by Bill Brandt's photography and classic English black and white movies such as The Innocents and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.
A feature version of Mozart's classic opera, featuring a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fry. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.
