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Film Studies

Bhaji On The Beach (1994)

Bhaji On The Beach (1994)

Film Studies | Channel 4 | 1993 | 1'35'58''

A day trip to Blackpool to see the lights, a harmless break from the routine for a mini-bus full of women from the Asian's Women's Centre. It all s...

East is East (1999)

East is East (1999)

Film Studies | Channel 4 | 2001 | 1'31'43''

BAFTA-winning comedy-drama with Om Puri, Linda Bassett and Jimi Mistry, which takes a wry look at a Pakistani chip shop owner's efforts to raise his kids...

S2E08: Calendar Girls | Movie Connections

S2E08: Calendar Girls | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'16''

Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and others discuss the making of 2003 hit Calendar Girls.

S2E07: Local Hero | Movie Connections

S2E07: Local Hero | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'07''

Peter Reigert, Denis Lawson and others recall the production of the 1983 comedy drama Local Hero.

S2E06: Buster | Movie Connections

S2E06: Buster | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'34''

Phil Collins and others discuss the making of 1988 smash hit Buster, the story about little people who craved the big time.

S2E04: Trainspotting | Movie Connections

S2E04: Trainspotting | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'09''

Danny Boyle, John Hodge, Ewan McGregor and others remember the making of 1996 smash hit Trainspotting.

S2E03: Sliding Doors | Movie Connections

S2E03: Sliding Doors | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'09''

Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch and others remember the making of 1998 smash hit Sliding Doors.

S2E02: Summer Holiday | Movie Connections

S2E02: Summer Holiday | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'11''

Sir Cliff Richard and fellow cast members discuss the making of '60s smash hit musical Summer Holiday.

S2E01: Holy Grail | Movie Connections

S2E01: Holy Grail | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2009 | 39'37''

Members of the Monty Python team take a critical look back at their first film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

S1E08: Gregory’s Girl | Movie Connections

S1E08: Gregory’s Girl | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 39'25''

Documentary series about Britain's biggest movies. Director Bill Forsyth scored a hat-trick with his themes of football, scho...

S1E07: Brassed Off | Movie Connections

S1E07: Brassed Off | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 38'53''

Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Tompkinson, Melanie Hill, Philip Jackson, and Peter Martin join the director in recalling Brassed Off's jo...

S1E05: Bend it Like Beckham | Movie Connections

S1E05: Bend it Like Beckham | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 39'09''

Writer/director Gurinder Chadha and star Parminder Nagra discuss the making and success of Bend it Like Beckham, the romantic...

S1E04: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Movie Connections

S1E04: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 39'07''

The documentary series charting the evolution of Britain's biggest movies turns its attention to the 1998 hit ...

S1E01: Four Weddings and a Funeral | Movie Connections

S1E01: Four Weddings and a Funeral | Movie Connections

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 39'21''

Documentary charting the evolution of British movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis are amo...

Calendar Girls (2003)

Calendar Girls (2003)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2006 | 1'41'02''

Comedy drama based on the true story of 12 Yorkshire ladies who find a compelling way to raise money for charity: a nude calendar. Stars Helen Mirren a...

Buster (1988)

Buster (1988)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2007 | 1'36'08''

Lively biopic telling the story of Great Train Robber Buster Edwards, a small-timer who fell in with more ambitious thieves. After the gang robs a London to Gl...

Sliding Doors (1998)

Sliding Doors (1998)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2010 | 1'32'35''

Helen is about to discover that fate can be sealed as quickly as a pair of sliding doors. There are two sides to every story, and Helen is about to live...

Gregory’s Girl (1981)

Gregory’s Girl (1981)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2007 | 1'27'31''

Witty and unsentimental coming-of-age comedy about a boy (John Gordon Sinclair) who falls hopelessly in love with a girl who becomes the new star...

Summer Holiday (1963)

Summer Holiday (1963)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2020 | 1'43'47''

Don and his friends persuade their employer to lend them a London bus for their summer holiday.

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2007 | 1'45'28''

To avoid her Sikh parents' disapproval, soccer-obsessed teenager Jess Bhamra hides the fact she has joined a local female football team, where he...

Freaky Friday (2003)

Freaky Friday (2003)

Film Studies | BBC Three | 2008 | 1'29'45''

An overworked mother and her headstrong teenage daughter are given magic fortune cookies and wake up with switched identities.

Black Panther (2019)

Black Panther (2019)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2024 | 2'02'51''

Prince T'Challa, the Black Panther, hopes to lead his people to a brighter future but faces many threats, including a challenge to his throne from a rut...

Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2023 | 1'51'48''

A commercial spacecraft on its way home is diverted to investigate a mysterious signal on a nearby planet, where it picks up a deadly, parasitic life form that ...

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2008 | 1'54'04''

Provocative comedy in which a son tries to prevent his mother from learning about the fall of the Berlin Wall when she emerges from a lengthy coma, fe...

The White Ribbon | Das Weisse Band (2009)

The White Ribbon | Das Weisse Band (2009)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2013 | 2'15'59''

Award-winning film by Michael Haneke set on the eve of World War I. The quiet order of a small German village is disturbed by a ser...

Balloon | Ballon (2018)

Balloon | Ballon (2018)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2020 | 1'56'41''

The Strelzyk family attempt to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles.

12 Monkeys (1995)

12 Monkeys (1995)

Film Studies | BBC Three | 2007 | 2'02'22''

Sombre time-travel thriller in which a convict from 2035 is sent back in time to find the cause of a virus which has wiped out most of the planet's populat...

Saltburn (2023)

Saltburn (2023)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2025 | 2'01'54''

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming, aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling ...

Parallel Mothers (2021)

Parallel Mothers (2021)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'54'20''

Two mothers bond in an unexpected way after giving birth on the same day.

North by Northwest (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2014 | 2'10'50''

When advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for the mysterious Mr Kaplan by a ruthless espionage ring, he soon faces deadly peril, frame...

King Kong (1933)

King Kong (1933)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2008 | 1'35'47''

Hollywood's most famous monster movie in which Kong, the giant gorilla, is taken from his prehistoric island home to be exhibited in the music halls of Manh...

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2020 | 2'02'47''

After the latest raid by bandits, the villagers in a small settlement in Mexico band together to hire a group of disparate gunfighters to protec...

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2024 | 1'51'39''

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Walk the Line (2005)

Walk the Line (2005)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2023 | 2'07'16''

The story of the legendary country artist Johnny Cash, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records and his long ...

Past Lives (2023)

Past Lives (2023)

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2025 | 1'36'56''

Following two childhood friends over the course of 24 years while they contemplate the nature of their relationship as they grow apart, living different li...

The Beasts (2022)

The Beasts (2022)

Film Studies | BBC Four | 2024 | 2'10'28''

Middle-aged French couple Antoine and Olga have moved to an inland Galician hamlet, happy to live off the land and renovate some dilapidated properties and...

28 Days Later (2002)

28 Days Later (2002)

Film Studies | BBC One | 2025 | 1'45'42''

28 days after a killer virus is accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate str...

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Film Studies | Channel 4 | 1987 | 1'32'14''

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

When The Wind Blows (1986)

When The Wind Blows (1986)

Film Studies | Channel 4 | 1997 | 1'20'54''

Based on the work of Raymond Briggs, this chilling yet humorous story follows an elderly couple as they muddle through a nuclear attack, placing t...

Trainspotting (1996)

Trainspotting (1996)

Film Studies | Channel 4 | 1997 | 1'29'50''

Smart, funny, sickly, and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never...

Hitchcock’s Shower Scene: 78/52

Hitchcock’s Shower Scene: 78/52

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2018 | 1'25'20''

Director Alexandre O Philippe's gripping documentary takes an unprecedented look at Alfred Hitchcock's infamous and iconic shower scene...

Saul Bass | Back Row

Saul Bass | Back Row

Film Studies | BBC Radio 4 | 2004 | 5'21''

Chris Tookey examines the great American graphic designer Saul Bass whose work for Hitchcock, Kubrick, Wilder and Scorsese established him as the master...

Saul Bass | Night Waves

Saul Bass | Night Waves

Film Studies | BBC Radio 3 | 2001 | 12'26''

Philip Dodd discusses the career of graphic designer Saul Bass , credited with transforming a banal medium into an art form and famous for his film t...

Saul Bass | Film Night

Saul Bass | Film Night

Film Studies | BBC Two | 1974 | 14'11''

Item on the career of Saul Bass, US documentary director and title designer, now directing his first feature film, Phase IV.

6: Freeze | Watching

6: Freeze | Watching

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2000 | 28'12''

Final part of the series that unwraps the mysteries of cinema. Tom Sutcliffe explores the emotional impact of slowing down or stopping the action altoge...

5: Unseen | Watching

5: Unseen | Watching

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2000 | 29'12''

Tom Sutcliffe presents a documentary exploring how what is left unseen on the movie screen can be just as important as what is shown.

4: Punch | Watching

4: Punch | Watching

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2000 | 29'21''

Tom Sutcliffe presents a documentary exploring the history of the punch in cinema, featuring examples from films throughout the ages, with contributions ...

3: Screens | Watching

3: Screens | Watching

Film Studies | BBC Two | 2000 | 28'53''

This week, through films such as All That Heaven Allows and Videodrome, Tom Sutcliffe explores how cinema has portrayed television as a sinister and da...

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