Central London Traffic
1956 Β· 12m Β· Documentary
Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new around the capital.
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1929
During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.
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Cameras go behind the scenes at Brown's, London's oldest luxury hotel, during the Christmas season, as staff face the expectations of delivering a luxury festive stay for guests booking rooms that start at Β£750 a night. The hotel's elite team hosts a vibrant charity Christmas fayre, creates imaginative festive pastries, and concocts a signature holiday cocktail, all aimed at delivering the Christmas feast of a lifetime.
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London's Trafalgar Square
1890 Β· β 4.9
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Elizabeth Taylor in London
1963 Β· β 8
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in London, England, gives viewers a tour of the city, including her birthplace, the Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Battersea Park and an East End church that was damaged in the infamous "blitz" air raids during World War II. She also recites several famous English poems and speeches by notable English figures.
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The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2003 Β· β 7.8
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.
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The Feminist Library
2016 Β· β 10
The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, documenting a crucial moment in the library's herstory as it fights for its very survival. Shortlisted for the Women's History Network Community Prize, the film revisits the story of the library's inception and emphasises why feminism remains essential today.
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Cracking the Shakespeare Code
2016 Β· β 7.5
Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a map leading to the location of certain treasures. British Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton embarks on a mission to prove he is spectacularly wrong. (A remake of βShakespeare: The Hidden Truth,β including new discoveries.)
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Cinema Now
2022 Β· β 2
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.
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2017
A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.
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Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?
2019
A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist group, Extinction Rebellion.
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Ghost Dance
1983 Β· β 5.2
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
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Jack the Ripper: The Missing Evidence
2014
During a three-month period in 1888, a knife-wielding serial killer murdered six women on the streets of Whitechapel. Their throats were cut and their bodies horribly mutilated. He was never caught and his identity remains one of the world's greatest crime mysteries. In the years that have passed since Jack the Ripper's killing spree, many high-profile suspects have been suggested, yet the fact remains that none of them can be placed at any of the crime scenes. Now, journalist Christer Holmgren believes that he has found a suspect who can not only be linked directly to one of the murders but also whose daily routine could be consistent with all the other deaths
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