The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the...

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major...

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes...

Dazzling, brash and dynamic, yet equally graceful and poetic. DIVINING was Judith Jamison's first major work as a choreographer for Ailey, evoking a...

Dame Janet Baker, in one of her greatest roles, leads a cast of some of Britain’s finest interpeters of baroque opera and their performance...

European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical...

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the...

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990. This documentary is one of the ten films of “The Modern World: Ten Great Writers...

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

A documentary featuring musician Jordi Savall

British series stressing the role of, and showing different kinds of, improvisation in music. Produced for UK's Channel Four. Written and narrated by...

This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...

Alvin Ailey played a key role in the growth of modern dance in USA and his company, founded in 1958, is one of the USA’s oldest dance troupes...

An exploration of composer Anton Bruckner's numeromania during a nervous breakdown and stay at a sanatorium.

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...

Ruth, 30 ans, en froid avec sa famille depuis des années, rentre chez elle après la mort suspecte de sa mère. Elle y retrouve...

Vingt ans après son départ pour la guerre de Troie, le roi Ulysse rentre enfin à Ithaque, mais son voyage est parsemé...

Si vous découvriez que nous ne sommes pas seuls, si quelqu'un vous le montrait, vous le prouvait, cela vous effraierait-il ?

Dusty Boyd, alias "Le Marteau", un joueur de tennis pro en déroute, a besoin de gagner. Pour sauver un country club en difficulté et...

Un quadragénaire en perte de vitesse espère sauver sa carrière dans la publicité en rejoignant un groupe de vingtenaires...

Quinze ans après avoir recherché l'Épée du Pouvoir, Adam est catapulté sur sa planète natale Eternia, sur...

Quatre ans se sont écoulés, Peter, désormais adulte, vit seul, s'est volontairement effacé de la vie et des souvenirs de...

L'Empire maléfique est tombé et les seigneurs de guerre impériaux restent dispersés dans toute la galaxie. Alors que la...