95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees (2014)

Private Diary documents photographer Pedro Usabiaga working with a variety of amateur models. The audience sees how the relationships between the photographer and the subjects changes during their time together, as well as how the individual photographs begin to take shape. Pedro Usabiaga is a well-established Basque photographer whose chief concerns are figurative photography and whose passion in photographing the Spanish male. In this hour long conversation with the artist we are given entry into that process of selecting models (none of the models he uses for this book to be titled 'Private Diary' are professional, but instead are randomly chosen as Usabiaga observes athletes in action) and then allowed to follow Usabiaga and his crew as they photograph these men in natural settings and natural light.

Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). En 1810, durante la invasión de España por las tropas napoleónicas, un grupo de guerrilleros, con la colaboración de sus aliados ingleses, intenta evitar que un cañón de gran calibre caiga en manos de los franceses.

Rafa es un joven señorito andaluz que no ha tenido que salir jamás de su Sevilla natal para conseguir lo único que le importa en la vida: el fino, la gomina y las mujeres. Hasta que un día todo cambia cuando aparece la primera mujer que se resiste a sus encantos: Amaia, una vasca. Decidido a conquistarla, Rafa viaja hasta un pueblo de la Euskadi profunda, donde para que Amaia le haga algo de caso deberá hacerse pasar por vasco. Rafa pasará entonces a llamarse Antxon, nombre euskera al que decide además acompañar de unos cuantos apellidos vascos: Arguiñano, Igartiburu, Erentxun, Gabilondo, Urdangarin, Otegi, Zubizarreta y… Clemente.

Narra la historia de la ocupación de Portugal por las tropas napoleónicas a principios del siglo XIX. Realizado por Valeria Sarmiento, la viuda y editora de los filmes de Raúl Ruiz, partiendo de un proyecto póstumo de su marido.

Jon va a casarse con Cristina, hija de Don Jaime, director del banco en el que trabaja Jon. Por casualidad, el día antes de su boda, Jon se encuentra con Carmen, su antigua novia, que ha vuelto a San Sebastián después de haber estado trabajando en África para la organización no gubernamental Médicos sin Fronteras. Tras dejar a su novia plantada en el altar, Jon es despedido de su empleo y su vida se convierte en una espiral de malentendidos que le conducen al desastre.

This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras. Filmed on the Battlefields in Belgium using re-enaction footage expert Presenters follow the Emperors brilliant initial plan which however soon begins to fall apart due to flaws in the French staff, Napoleons arrogance and the courage and fighting ability of the Allied Troops. Both these battles deserve to be better known but they have been overshadowed by Waterloo the culmination of the Campaign

Doce cortometrajes, doce retratos de la ciudad de San Sebastián. Nombres históricos y jóvenes promesas de la cinematografía guipuzcoana conviven en esta película impulsada por Donostia / San Sebastián 2016, Capital Europea de la Cultura. (FILMAFFINITY)

Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of the opposing armies. While the guns of the Grand Battery thundered in the centre, French columns bore down on the Hougoumont chateau and farm complex, which protected Wellington's flank held by the Guards and their German allies. Thus began an epic 'battle within a battle' that sucked away valuable troops from Napoleon's main attack, causing Wellington to declare that 'the battle turned on the closing of the gates at Hougoumont'.Meanwhile D'Erlons Corps attempted to bludgeon its way through Wellington's centre, not knowing that the British and Dutch line was in waiting on the reverse slope. Upon seeing the French advance, the British released a disciplined volley of musket fire that checked the French. A further brilliantly timed charge by the Household and Union Cavalry Brigades finally saw the French off.

Following on from Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack, Part III starts just as the great battle reaches its crisis point. Marshal Ney launched thousands of France's finest heavy cavalry against Wellington's thinning lines who had already taken a terrible battering on the Mont St Jean Ridge. Wave after wave of armoured horsemen broke against the steady squares of British, Dutch/Belgian and German troops. The crisis, however, took a further turn for the worse as the key bastion in Wellington's centre, the fortified farm of La Haie Sainte, fell to the French onslaught. The way to Brussels was now open and Wellington muttered, 'Give me Blucher or give me night'. With the situation looking bleaker by the second for Wellington and his troops, Napoleon fatefully hesitated to complete the coup de grace as the Prussians had closed in on his right flank at the Village of Plancenoit. Would the Young Guard be able to hold Blucher's men? There was all still to play for.

During the Napoleonic Wars the British Army realised that it needed skirmishers, as a result it raised 2 Rifle Regiments both armed with the icon Baker Rifle. This programme explains how the Riflemen of the 95th Rifles were dressed and equipped. It is an ideal accompaniment to our Series on the 95th Rifles.

This final part takes us through the dramatic events when Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch Army aided by Blucher’s Prussians defeat Napoleon. The French army was outfought and Napoleon was out-generaled by Wellington. At Wavre Grouchy beat the Prussian rearguard before retreating to France. Meanwhile, the Anglo-Dutch army counted the bloody cost of the previous days fighting while Wellington wrote his controversial Waterloo Dispatch and the vengeful Prussians pursued the French towards Paris, leading to Napoleon's abdication and the occupation of the city by the Allies.

95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peninsular Collection from BHTV . The DVD explores the history of the 95th Rifles, who were masters of the battlefield and particularly skilled in skirmishing. Held in high esteem by the French and Allies alike, they played a momentous role in the outcome of the Peninsular War. Following the events set out in the Salamanca DVD, this film serves as a prequel to explain the years leading up to the Battle of Salamanca, starting with the aftermath of Sir John Moore’s retreat to La Corunna in the winter of 1808/1809.

Due to the hostile terrain of the Iberian Peninsula Siege Warfare took on an importance here more than anywhere during the Napoleonic Wars. For the French in particular fortresses and fortified towns were the only places they could guarantee the safety of their logistics from the Spanish and Portuguese guerillas. If Wellington was going to liberate Portugal and Spain he would have to overcome these fortified locations. This film looks at the British and French experience during this period and uses the the great sieges of Ciudad Rodtigo and Badajoz to illustrate how both defence and attacks were carried out . The BHTV team use footage from Spain, re enactments, maps and models to bring this much neglected aspect of the Peninsula war to life.

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. Feeling alone and disconnected from life, she projects her romantic fantasies onto the paintings she loves, until one day her song brings Reginald - a Knight of the Realm - to life. His carefree innocence and zest for life begin to open Rachel up to the beauty around her, but the fates have a way of making trouble when miracles occur...

La divertida y loca historia de una escuela de cocina en ruinas y sus estudiantes durante un dia, en el que ellos encotrarán un tesoro escondido.

Donostia-San Sebastián, País Vasco, España, 2011. Maider, una cineasta, se muda al mismo piso donde la pedagoga Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) estableció clandestinamente la primera ikastola, una escuela vasca, bajo el duro régimen del dictador Francisco Franco. A pesar de su trabajo pionero, desarrollado a lo largo de treinta años, su historia no es muy conocida, así que Maider, intrigada, comienza a investigar…

Un paseo peculiar por la ciudad vasca de San Sebastián por retorcidos caminos nunca transitados por usuarios de guías de viajes.

La historia de un matrimonio estadounidense que acude al Festival de Cine de San Sebastián. Se dejan atrapar por la magia del festival, la belleza y el encanto de España y la fantasía del cine. Ella tiene un romance con un brillante director de cine francés, y él se enamora de una bella doctora española.

Donostia-San Sebastián, País Vasco, España, 26 de noviembre de 1985, por la noche. Mikel Zabalza, un joven conductor de autobús, es detenido junto a otras personas por la Guardia Civil en el marco de una operación contra la sanguinaria banda terrorista ETA. Cuando los demás detenidos son liberados, denuncian que han sido brutalmente torturados en los cuarteles de Intxaurrondo. Además, Mikel no está entre ellos: Mikel ha desaparecido.

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hour period.