Malcolm Arnold

A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show but premiered in its entirety at the Royal Festival Hall

Filmmaker John Milius discusses David Lean's classic Academy Award winner "The Bridge on the River Kwai."

A documentary about British composer Malcolm Arnold

1. Intro 2. First Movement: Moderato - Allegro 3. Second Movement: Andante 4. Third Movement: Vivace - Presto Recorded on September 24th, 1969 at London's Royal Albert Hall, Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra really was a meeting of two different worlds.

Основан на романе 1967 года "Арфа, которая когда-то" Патрика Холла. Майкл Марлер, успешный бизнесмен из Лондона, вот-вот поднимется на вершину своей карьеры. Смерть отца возвращает его, спустя пять лет, в родной город Ливерпуль. Он узнаёт, что его отец умер из-за драки с английскими "Тедди бойз". Для него становится делом чести отомстить за него, не привлекая британскую полицию...

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques.

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

Оккупированная немецкими войсками Норвегия. Профессор физики доктор Рольф Петерсен и лидер местного подполья Кнут Страут пытаются сообщить британской разведке о планах нацистов по производству атомной бомбы. Завод в Телемарке является центральным звеном в дьявольской игре. Союзники решают отправить отряд специального назначения с целью разрушить планы врага.

Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic, battle-scarred veteran, hates Doll, whom he considers a coward. In battle, Doll kills a Japanese soldier and is filled with remorse, which further angers the sergeant. The next day, an emboldened Doll wipes out an entire enemy machine gun post and begins to feel as sadistic as Welsh. The two must work together to clear away some mines, but as they do, their platoon is surprised by a Japanese raid.

Эксцентричная старая дама нанимает гувернантку для своей буйной 16-летней внучки Лорел. Девочка обожает избавляться от гувернанток, раскрывая их секреты своей бабушке, но справится ли она со скелетами в ее шкафу своей таинственной новой воспитательницы? И захочет ли Лорел вернуться к своей «блудной» матери?

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.

Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Действие разворачивается в сельской местности в Англии. Дети находят в амбаре раненого незнакомца, который в полу-бреду произносит «Иисус Христос». И они принимают его за реального Христа, спустившегося с небес...

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

Майор Джок Синклер является исполняющим обязанности полковника в Шотландском батальоне, недавно вернувшимся домой после завершения Второй мировой войны. Джок — харизматический лидер, склонный к злоупотреблению виски и закрывающий глаза на устав и правила. Ему на замену присылают полковника Бэрроу, выпускника Оксфорда, героя японской кампании, в последнее время преподававшего в военной академии Сэндхерст. Два противоположных характера моментально сталкиваются.

A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.

Этот библейский эпос, поставленный режиссером Кингом Видором является кинематографическим осмыслением плотских грехов и языческих богопреклонений. Картина, снятая в Испании, запечатлела подвиги незабвенных персонажей. Юл Бриннер олицетворяет здесь сильного и идеалистического Соломона. А чувственная Джина Лоллобриджида - великолепна в роли величественной и соблазнительной Царицы.

1937 год. Доктор-нейрохирург Кукровиц делает передовые операции на мозге — лоботомию. Его клиника очень нуждается в деньгах. Неожиданное предложение богатой вдовы миссис Виолет Вэнебл спонсировать строительство больницы взамен на согласие доктора сделать операцию лоботомии её душевнобольной племяннице Кэтрин Холли оказывается как нельзя кстати. Мучительные сомнения начинают одолевать доктора после знакомства с Кэтрин. Девушка испытала психическое потрясение прошлым летом: она стала свидетельницей смерти сына миссис Вэнебл Себастьяна в мексиканской деревушке, куда они вдвоём ездили отдыхать. И, как выясняется, за этой смертью кроется страшная семейная тайна...

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.

Фильм основан на истории жизни Глэдис Эйлуорд, современной святой, чья неутолимая жажда творить добро заставила ее пройти полсвета. Всегда мечтавшая о миссионерской деятельности, горничная из Англии отправляется в Китай и открывает там приют для усталых и голодных погонщиков мулов, бродящих удаленными горными тропами.Постепенно ей удается преодолеть враждебность со стороны местного населения, она завоевывает сердце евразийского полковника и обращает в христианство властного мандарина. Но главный ее подвиг — спасение сотни бездомных детей, которых она уводит с захваченной территории в безопасное место во время вторжения в Китай японцев.

In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

Две истории в одной: беззаботный британский капрал, находящийся во Франции, узнаёт, что он оказался ответственным за жизни своих людей после гибели их офицера. И он должен найти способ вернуть их в Англию. Тем временем британские гражданские лица оказываются втянутыми в войну при помощи операции «Динамо», целью которой было вернуть французские и британские войска на побережье Дюнкерка. Есть и те, кто готов прийти на помощь, и те, кто действует не столь охотно.

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

Захваченные в плен японцами британские солдаты и их командир полковник Николсон вынуждены строить железнодорожный мост через реку Квай в Бирме. Несмотря на свирепый характер полковника Сайто, Николсон проявляет настоящее мужество. Тем временем командование назначает группу коммандос для уничтожения этого стратегически важного объекта.

On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.

On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.

Молодой человек приезжает в Париж учиться тройному сальто у одного из немногих акробатов, способных его исполнить. Вместе они начинают готовить номер. Но тут появляется акробатка, очаровавшая юношу, но полюбившая того, кто гораздо старше.

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

Член внешней Партии Уинстон Смит пытается противостоять самой Партии, нечеловечески жестокому тоталитарному режиму. Он и его возлюбленная Джулия надеются на то, что Сопротивление — тайная организация, противостоящая режиму, или пролы (пролетариат) сумеют уничтожить Партию хоть в далёком будущем.

Хистер, женщина средних лет, несчастлива в браке с респектабельным и скучным судьёй, и она заводит головокружительный роман с молодым лётчиком.

A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.

Новоиспечённый владелец складов вторсырья, как и отец, не потратит и пенни лишнего. Однако, поддавшись на уговоры друзей и невесты, он уезжает в Лондон, чтобы развеяться — и встречает блондинку своей мечты. Много ли тут сэкономишь...

Действие разворачивается в веймарском Берлине. Молодой амбициозный писатель заводит дружбу с бедной, но жизнерадостной певицей.

Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.

Приезд дочери султана принцессы Фатимы в известную и престижную английскую «Школу для юных леди» принес больше суматохи, чем обычно. Конь её отца — Арабский Мальчик вскоре должен участвовать в скачках, поэтому Кларенс Фиттон, брат директриссы Миллисент, просит свою дочь докладывать ему об успехах коня. В то же время полиция устраивает сержанта Руби Гейтса в качестве учителя в школу, а Министерство образования отправляет уже третьего по счету инспектора, так как первые два бесследно исчезли.

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

Долгие искания идеального образа жизни приводят капитана Сент-Джеймса к гениальному открытию: это одновременная жизнь сразу с двумя близкими женщинами в конечных точках маршрута его парома.

This travelogue emphasizes Copenhagen's harmonious residents and tone. We see well-known landmarks and get a quick history of some of them.

A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and Batwa tribes to a new territory after the natural resources of their native soil has been depleted. The pro-ecological message is always present, but never so much as to degenerate into fatuous speechmaking. As a means to introduce the semblance of a plot, writer/director Cyril Frankel concentrates on the trials and tribulations of clerk-cum-farmer Jonathan (Frederick Bijurenda) and his native sweetheart Violet (Violet Mukabuerza). Print quality in Man of Africa varies from adequate to murky.

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

Томи лётчик-ас женится по любви на Сью дочери владельца крупного авиационного завода Джона Риджфильда. Риджфильд одержим идеей создания реактивного самолёта, способного достичь скорости звука и преодолеть звуковой барьер. После войны Томи устраивается на работу в фирму тестя лётчиком-испытателем..

A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.

A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community.

Великобритания. Королевский авиационный исследовательский центр разрабатывает самолет марки Ренфир с оригинальным строением хвоста. Для работы над проектом приглашен специалист по металлам — Деннис Скотт, на испытательной площадке он знакомится с эксцентричным ученым Теодором Хоуни. Теодор утверждает, что по его расчетам новая модель может потерпеть аварию в виду усталости металла через 1440 часов эксплуатации, но компания не признает это, ведь самолет уже давно себя показал как надежная машина.

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

One of a series of newsreels made about mining

One of a series of newsreels made about mining