Bbc I'm Not in Love The Story of 10cc (2015)

BBC - Oh You Pretty Things: The Story of Music and Fashion (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 7, 2017

Just how did Britain become the place where the best music goes with the most eye-catching styles? Lauren Laverne narrates a series about the love affair between our music and fashion, looking at how musicians and designers came up with the coolest and craziest looks and how we emulated our idols. British pop and rock is our great gift to the world, at the heart of the irrepressible creative brilliance of Britain. But it has never just been about the music. Across the decades we have unleashed a uniquely British talent for fusing the best sounds with stunning style and fashion to dazzling effect.

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BBC - Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (2018) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 26, 2018

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of the Royal Collection, the dazzling collection of art and decorative objects owned by the Queen. Containing over a million items, this is one of the largest art collections in the world - its masterpieces by Van Dyck, Holbein, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer and Canaletto line the walls of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court and many other palaces, museums and institutions around Britain.

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BBC: America On A Plate The Story Of The Diner (2011) Movies

Posted by BlackFlag at Nov. 30, 2011

BBC: America On A Plate The Story Of The Diner (2011)
HDTV | AVI | 624x352 | XviD @ 1,294 Kbps 25.000 fps | MP3 @ 109 Kbps | 59m 25s | 550 Mb
HDTV 720p | MKV | 1280x720 | x264 @ 2,936 Kbps 25.000 fps | AC3 @ 192 Kbps | 59m 28s | 1.22 Gb
Genre: Documentary | Language: English

Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith re-envisions the story of 20th century American culture through its most iconic institution - the diner. Whether Edward Hopper's Nighthawks or the infamous encounter between Pacino and de Niro in Heat, these gleaming, gawdy shacks are at the absolute heart of the American vision.

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BBC Secret Knowledge - Wondrous Obsessions: The Cabinet of Curiosities (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 3, 2015

As the popularity of collecting fairs and Pinterest would attest, we are a nation of magpie obsessions. Renaissance expert Professor Nandini Das reveals the story behind the Cabinet of Curiosities - the original collecting craze that began in Renaissance Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, and which is experiencing a surprising revival in the work of contemporary artists today.

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BBC - America on a Plate: The Story of the Diner (2011) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Dec. 29, 2018

Writer and Broadcaster Stephen Smith re-envisions the story of 20th century American culture through its most iconic institution - the diner. Whether Edward Hopper's Nighthawks or the encounter between Pacino and de Niro in Heat, these gleaming, gawdy shacks are at the absolute heart of the American vision. Stephen embarks on a road journey that takes him to some of America's most iconic diners. He meets the film-makers and singers who have immortalised them, and looks at the role diners have played not only in America's greatest paintings and movies, but also in the fight against racial oppression and the chain restaurants' global takeover.

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BBC : Hop, Skip and Jump: The Story of Children's Play (2009) Movies

Posted by gavn_009 at Jan. 11, 2010

Two-part series which tells the story of children's outdoor games in 20th-century Britain begins by looking at British children at play between the 1900s and the mid-1950s.

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BBC Time Shift - Eyes Down: The Story of Bingo (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 18, 2018

It is one of Britain's most popular leisure pursuits, but high street bingo came about almost by accident as the result of a loophole in an obscure piece of gambling legislation. Almost overnight, in January 1961 what had been a quiet parlour game or occasional seaside flutter was turned into a brash multimillion-pound business. As Timeshift affectionately recalls in this documentary, soon nearly a quarter of the population were playing and becoming fluent in the rhyming slang of 'bingo lingo' - from 'Legs Eleven' to 'Clickety Click, Sixty Six'.

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BBC - America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at March 2, 2013

As LIFE magazine reaches its 75th anniversary, in BBC Four's America in Pictures: the Story of Life Magazine, British photographer Rankin discovers how the publication became so respected. Rankin goes in search of why Life magazine had so much influence on the American people and why it was so respected.

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BBC - Beats, Bass and Bars: The Story of Grime (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 14, 2018

The story of how grime rose from the council estates of east London to become the most important British musical movement since punk. Through personal encounters with key pioneers from the last four decades of British black music, Rodney P, the 'godfather of British rap', discovers that the success of grime rests upon previous generations of artists and learns that grime can only be truly understood when viewed as part of a broader social narrative and ever-evolving musical culture that goes back to the 1980s.

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BBC - America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine (2011) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at March 31, 2019

Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. In the 40s, 50s and 60s it caught the spirit of America as it blossomed into a world superpower and its influence on American people was unparalleled. Fashion photographer Rankin celebrates the work of Life's legendary photographers including Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, who went to outrageous lengths to get the best picture.

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