5x2 2004

An apparently straight theater director in a hetero marriage (to the most formidable film critic in Spain) takes on a screenplay with a lesbian writer. The play is about a French woman in history who was in love with her daughter and constantly wrote her love letters trying to seduce her back home to Paris.The director and writer both love their art so much in this project and in the process they fall in love with each other and each makes great sacrifices for the other.

A column of pink granite in the Pantheon. Its story: Two thousand kilometers away, in a mountainous and desolate Egypt, to be transported from there to the desert, then to the Nile, descended on a raft. And across the Mediterranean loaded on a special ship to Rome, to be raised together with the others of the Pantheon and the Basilica Ulpia. As powerful and stupendous as the thousand marble works that made Imperial Rome unique.

Historian Bettany Hughes gives her personal take on the diverse cultures of the ancient world in this 2010 documentary series on More 4. The series begins with an examination of Alexandria, the city founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC to become the world’s first global centre of culture. The programme explores Alexandria’s role as a powerhouse of science and learning, and focuses on the female mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, the subject of the feature film Agora, starring Rachel Weisz.

"On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz. As he went by, a Cuban peasant turned to an American journalist, and said: "There he goes, the hope of a people." Over the next few decades, by the force of his personality and the might of his Soviet benefactor, Castro turned himself and Cuba into significant players on the world stage.

Pornographic films first appeared in late 19th-century France, a mere two years after the invention of cinematography in 1894.

Physicist Brian Greene's bestselling book comes to the small screen in this stimulating look at a complicated topic: the search for order in the universe. Is a revolutionary proposal–"string theory"–the answer scientists have been seeking for centuries? Greene tackles the mind-boggling complexity of the theory with vivid, clear images, and calmly points the way to the answer

After school Takabe has his first sexual intercourse in the nurse's office with Hayase, his classmate. Although he is surprised by her attitude, he begins to like being her sexfriend more and more and proceeds to pursue other relationships while occasionally meeting Hayase for casual sex.

Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said speaks about "his illness (incurable leukemia), his work, Palestine and politics, his life and education, and his continuing preoccupations.

Vikings! They came from the North and soon the legends would say that they did not know fear. For hundreds of years they were another name for terror. They sailed icy oceans and narrow rivers striking far inland without warning without mercy. However the truth about the Vikings is far more complex. Much of Europe s traditions technology and institutions come to us from these fierce men of the North. England Germany Russia along with their homeland of Scandinavia all bear the Viking s mark today.

Greece, a land of breathtaking beauty and light. A land where science, art and inspiration from the gods combined to produce some of the world's greatest marvels of architecture and design. The ancient Greeks used buildings and structures to reflect the variety of life at the core of their civilisation - they built the first theatres, staged the first sports events and worshipped in some of the most spectacular temples ever built. From prehistoric palaces to bold symbols of victory this programme explores the Seven Ancient Wonders of Greece - the Theatre of Epidaurus, Olympia, Delphi, the Colossus of Rhodes, Santorini, The Palace of Knossos and the greatest masterpiece of them all - The Parthenon.