Movies: Bbc Four

  • 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?
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Joy of Data

    The Joy of Data (2016)

    The Joy of Data

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    A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of ...

    The Joy of Data
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up (2010)

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

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    Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and taking risks is now about longevity, survival, nostalgia and refusing to grow up, give up or shut up. But ...

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up
  • 2010
    The Secret Life of Chaos

    The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)

    The Secret Life of Chaos

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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...

    The Secret Life of Chaos
  • 2008
    Hughie Green, Most Sincerely

    Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (2008)

    Hughie Green, Most Sincerely

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    Drama about the secret life of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money presenter Hughie Green, based on the inside story from his family, friends and peers. It tells of the destructive power of success and celebrity from Green's earliest days as a c...

    Hughie Green, Most Sincerely
  • 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
  • 2023
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles (2023)

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

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    The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller....

    The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 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!
  • 2019
    Bauhaus 100

    Bauhaus 100 (2019)

    Bauhaus 100

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    In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauh...

    Bauhaus 100
  • 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
  • 2007
    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays (2007)

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

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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, ...

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Martin's Close

    Martin's Close (2019)

    Martin's Close

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    A young squire accused of murdering a young girl that did not return his feelings of love reveals a supernatural secret at his trial....

    Martin's Close
  • 2013
    Lou Reed - Remembered

    Lou Reed - Remembered (2013)

    Lou Reed - Remembered

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    Film tribute to Lou Reed, who died in October, which looks at the extraordinarily transgressive life and career of one of rock 'n' roll's true originals With the help of friends, fellow musicians, critics and those who have been inspired not only by...

    Lou Reed - Remembered
  • 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