David M. Thompson Movies
- 1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Cariani and the Courtesans01987HD
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger...
- 2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...52015HD
The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look...
- 1987
Land
Land01987HD
The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are...
- 1988
Shadow on the Earth
Shadow on the Earth01988HD
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin is hurtling through space. Down below, 7-year-old Billy Wilson keeps watching the skies, itching for an encounter...
- 1996
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood5.21996HD
Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...
- 2012
Screen Goddesses
Screen Goddesses02012HD
With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly...
- 1996
A Relative Stranger
A Relative Stranger41996HD
Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he...
- 2016
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film02016HD
An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors...
- 2002
Robert Altman in England
Robert Altman in England02002HD
Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes...
- 1966
Turner
Turner01966HD
A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.
- 2003
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof02003HD
Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.
- 1990
Rossellini
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A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid...
- 1986
Asinamali
Asinamali01986HD
Five black men in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What...
- 2001
When I Was 12
When I Was 1202001HD
Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been...
- 1992
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro61992HD
Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about his...
- 2005
The Undertaker
The Undertaker62005HD
An undertaker forms an awkward bond with the daughter of a man he has to bury.
- 1993
Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond
Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond101993HD
The second part of a BBC documentary on the latter half of the career of French director Jean Renoir.
- 1979
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives01979HD
Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...
- 1963
Francis Bacon: Paintings 1941 - 1962
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A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...
- 1992
Granada: From the North
Granada: From the North01992HD
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action,...