On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm the Famous Five hear on the radio that Uncle Quentin has escaped from prison. Arriving at the farm they are appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire Mr Budweiser and his spoilt son Willy. In fact Julian and Dick are so incensed they sleep outdoors where they spy two heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love...
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity. Having invented a new language and stolen rabbits from the animal husbandry department for food they decide to light a funeral pyre when one of their numbe...
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but,having witnessed a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other,get separated. Godfrey falls in with an American platoon but is captured by the Japanese and escapes from a P.O.W. camp whilst Hermine,having watched a group of Mexican gue...
This survey of African film production is derived mainly from Francophone countries, from Sembéne's Borom Sarret (1963) to Cissé's Finye (1982). It includes interview extracts with 8 directors including Hondo, Pipa, Ganda, Balogun, Cissé and Kaboré, and clips from 18 films featuring Xala, Ceddo, and The Chapel, and others from Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Niger.
Structured like a musical collage, Der lachende Stern (The Laughing Star) is a film about the Philippines and the Third World. Its starting-point was the 1983 film festival in Manila, an event of high symbolic value for its founder, Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines. Der lachende Stern reflects the cultural reality of the Philippines with interviews, excerpts fro...
The true story of Oskar Schindler's exploits in which he saved a thousand Jews from the ovens of the death camps, s told by first hand witnesses. The British Academy Award winning documentary that preceded Spielberg's "Schindler's List" by 10 years. Written by Jon Blair
