RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:
The Wild Ones
OFFSPRING FILMS | Trailer
6 x 45mins | Execs: Alex Williamson, Isla Robertson
Conservation series following a team of wildlife filmmakers journeying to the world’s remotest corners trying to capture groundbreaking footage of the planets most elusive species.
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
STUDIO RAMSAY GLOBAL | Trailer
6 x 45min | Showrunner: Robin O’Sullivan
Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski takes six celebrities on their own personal journeys to explore their genealogy through the food they love in the countries they call home.
Ed Sheeran: The Sum Of It All
FULWELL73 | Trailer
4 x 45min | Execs: Ben Turner, Ben Winston
Documentary series with unprecedented and exclusive, intimate access to global superstar Ed Sheeran, his family and friends as he reels from loss and considers his own mortality and the effects this has on his writing ahead of the release of his fifth studio album.
Born to be Wild
TAILFEATHER PRODUCTIONS | OFFSPRING FILMS
6 x 40mins | Execs: Lucy van Beek, Alex Williamson
Using the latest camera and tracking technology ‘Born to be Wild’ follows the amazing journey of six extraordinary animals, from their first few months of life helped by their human guardians through to release and beyond, into the wild.
My Life As A Rolling Stone: ‘Keith’
MERCURY STUDIOS | Link
4 x 60mins | Exec: Steve Condie
For 60 years, Keith Richards has been the lead guitarist of The Rolling Stones, a defiant hedonist and rock hero. Here he, and other stellar musicians, talk about his colorful career
Intelligence Rising (working title)
INDEPENDENT FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Dir\Prod: Elena Andreicheva
Intelligence Rising is a strategic role-playing ‘War Game’ meant to effectively simulate possible paths corporations and nations might take in the race to implement ever more powerful AI technologies.
Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art
BOHEMIA FILMS | Link
3 x 60min | Exec: Todd Austin
A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and provocative movement which would culminate in the notorious 1997 exhibition Sensation.
Art That Made Us: Ep1
CLEARSTORY | Link
8 x 60min | Dir: Sam Anthony
The turbulent era that followed the Roman occupation of Britain. Once known as the ‘dark’ ages, in reality it’s a time of glittering art and extraordinary cultural fusions.
Go Your Way
Dir/Prod: Dan Baskerville
When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022 the members of Ukrainian all woman punk metal band Death Pill were forced apart. This film follows them as they reunite for the first time in over a year to tour the UK to explore the cost of war on them and their music.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
RAW TV | 6 x 45min | Dir Andrew Saunders
The family's rise to power and how the dynasty shaped national and global events from the Cold War to the Wall Street crash.
Art That Made Us: Ep 5
CLEARSTORY | Link
8 x 60min | Dir: Sam Anthony
The story of Britain in the 18th century, a period that saw an explosion of creativity and a country with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay for it.
Attica Prison Riots
RAW TV | Documentary development sizzle | View
The Attica prison riot was the deadliest prison uprising in US history and the coverup started as soon as the shooting started.
Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
3 x 60min | Dir: Nico Wasserman
Stewart Copeland on his mission to understand music by exploring its extraordinary power to tell stories and bring people together.
Art That Made Us: Ep 7
CLEARSTORY | Link
8 x 60min | Dir: Kate Misrahi
Art goes to war during the first half of the 20th century: war with the old imperial order, war with convention and war with the very idea of what it means to be human.
Afghanistan: Americas Longest War
OR MEDIA
6 x 60min | Exec: Jon Hacker
Examining events in the months leading up to 9/11 and subsequent war and regime change American would bring to the country which ultimately culminate in defeat two decades later. Featuring exclusive access and interviews with key Taliban and Western ally figures, activists, diplomats and senior US government officials.
African Rising with Afua Hirsch
CLEARSTORY
60min | Exec: Russel Barnes
Exploring the energy and ambition of Nigerian fashion, film and music, asking what drives young Nigerians to succeed in everything from Afrobeat to Nollywood.
Life Cinematic: Sam Mendes
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
60min | Dir: Sam Anthony
Exploring the art of film-making with renowned film makers as they share the inspiration for their work through that of their peers.
Kony 2012: The Messiah Complex
DOCUMENTARY TEASER | Dir: Sam Anthony
In 2012 the world was momentarily transfixed by a 30-minute film, the sole ambition of which was to make Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony the most famous person in the world. But within days the films creator Jason Russel was filmed ranting naked in the street and placed in psychiatric care.
Tour de France (2007 - 2024)
V-SQUARED TV | View
Live coverage and highlights of the Tour de France, one of the largest annual sporting events in the world.
Life Cinematic: Sofia Coppola
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
60min | Dir: Kate Misrahi
Exploring the art of film-making with renowned film makers as they share the inspiration for their work through that of their peers.
Life Cinematic: Amma Asante
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
60min | Dir: Shurwin Beckford
Exploring the art of film-making with renowned film makers as they share the inspiration for their work through that of their peers.
Golden Girls
Sheffield Doc Fest | Independent short
Dir: Alice Rhodes | View
Three women all in their sixties buy a house by the seaside and move in together, this intimate, short film tells their story.
Sex Robots and Us
BBC MAKE IT DIGITAL
30min | Dir: Jon Eastman | View
Examining intimate relationships now possible between humans and machines due to advances in AI and it's use in the sex doll industry.
Ryan Gander: Value
SWANN FILMS | Documentary Pitch | View
What does the word value mean to people? Is it a measure of worth, or cost, a moral or ethical metric, is it relative?
BIG NARSTIE: Let’s Settle This
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Dir: Clare Tavernor | View
BIG NARSTIE settles viewers concerns from the barber shop chair.
Generation 66
60min | Dir: Clare Tavernor
The defining moment of 1966 may have been England winning the World Cup, but what about the other 364 days of the year? A revealing portrait of '66 told by the generation that shaped it.
Artsnight: Brits Who Designed the Modern World
60min | Dir: David Shulman
As the Design Museum prepares to open it’s doors at it’s new location in Kensington, London The Culture Show looks back at British design.
Artsnight: When Henry met Karl
30min | Dir: David Shulman
Famed neurosurgeon and author Henry Marsh meets author Karl Ove Knausgård to discuss the themes their biographies have in common.
Inside the Artist Studio: Polly Morgan
BBC WORLDWIDE INTERACTIVE | Dir: Colette Camden
An immersive interactive experience opening the door to one of the UK’s most curious and clever contemporary artists.
Artsnight: Josie Rourke
30min | Dir: Clem Hitchcock
Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, curates this celebrity-packed edition of Artsnight, looking at the changing idea of the hero in contemporary culture.
The Culture Show: Steve McQueen
60min | Dir: Nikki Seare | View
A look at the career of one of the UK’s great contemporary artists and film makers.
The Culture Show: The London Film Festival
30min | Dir: Nikki Seare
Roundup and interviews with the cast and crew of some of the films premiering at the festival.
The Culture Show: Booker Prize: A Village Decides
30min | Dir: Hannah Robson
An alternative approach to speculating on the winner of the year’s Man Booker Prize, residents of a small Scottish village decide.
The Culture Show: John Ronson meets Malcolm Gladwell
30min | Dir: Colette Camden | View
Ronson meets with Gladwell to discuss his latest work and the impact of his writing on popular culture and even public policy..
The Art of Japanese Life
4 x 60min | Dir: Ben Harding
From Japan's forests, zen gardens and bonsai we explore the connections between its culture and the natural environment.
Forest Field and Sky: Art out of Nature
60min | Dir: Ben Harding | View
Dr. James Fox explores the unique and mesmerising Landart of leading British and American artists, past and present.
Japan and Korea: The Ties that Bind
DWANGO | 2 x 60min | Dir: Ben Ryder
Examining Japan and Koreas fractious relationship comfort and presenting a broad overview of their individual histories.
Meetings of Minds
THE BESPOKE FILM CO
Dir: Natasha Serlin | Trailer
A series of films about Mitosys, the origins of all life on earth. Artists and microbiologists collaborate to visualise this process in art.
Britain’s Secret Seas
4 x 60min | Dir: Tom Sheehan
A look at the often-overlooked seas that surround the UK to reveal our native waters as being every bit as dramatic, colourful, and surprising as the oceans of the world.
How Science Changed the World
60min | Dir: Sophie Todd
Series presented by Robert Winston chronicling the ten most influential and significant scientific discoveries of the last 50 years.
Every Breath We Take:
BBC`FOUR | 60min | Dir: Laura Mulholland
Chronicling the incredible history of how humans came to understand the air around us, and the role it plays in life on earth.
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain: Ep 2
2 x 60min | Dir: Clare Tavernor
Paul O'Grady on a personal journey through the history of British working class to see how our lives outside work brought us together.
Rewind the Christmas Hits
FRESH ONE
90min | Dir: Nico Wasserman
A look back at all the fascinating stories of Christmas number ones over the decades.
Munch 150 | Edvard Munch biographical drama shorts
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA RELEASE | Dir: Karen McGann
A series of biographical short drama films, part of a cinema release documentary event to mark 150 years since Munch's birth.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture
8 x 60min | Series Producer: John Mullen
Dan Cruickshank travels the globe discovering buildings and monuments that transcend cultures and represent everything from Beauty to Death, Paradise and Disaster.
Tate Britain/Tate Media:
Exhibition films | Dir: Nico Wasserman
The Culture Show: £20K House
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Dianna Hill
The Science of Everything
BBC TWO | VT
Mark Lawson Talks to: Mark Gatiss
BBC FOUR | 60min | Dir: Anya Saunders
The Culture Show: David Lynch
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Clare Tavernor
The Culture Show: Lang Lang
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Emily Kennedy
The Culture Show: Folkstone
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Mark Bates
The Culture Show: Kanye West
BBC TWO | VT
Film 2010 with Claudia Winkleman
BBC TWO | VT
Stacey Dooley: Cologne
BBC THREE | 10min | Dir: Matthew Pitts-Tucker
Criterium du Dauphiné
ITV Sport | V-Squared TV
la Vuelta a España
ITV Sport | V-Squared TV
Tomorrow's Food
BBC ONE | VT | Exec: Peter Leonard
Biggest Bangs: Youtube Interactive
BBC BRIT | Web films
The Culture Show: William Friedkin
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Mark Bates
World’s Greatest Daredevils
Channel 5 | Mentorn TV | 60min
The Culture Show: Grinderman
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Mark Bates
The Culture Show: Titian
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Anya Saunders
Bang Goes the Theory
BBC TWO | VT
Bang Goes the Theory: Web films
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Suzy Boyles
Nashashibi/Skaer
TATE St Ives | Exhibition films | Dir: Clare Tavernor
Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures
SKY 1 | Maverick TV | 6 x 60min | Dir: Richard Graveling
The New Tate Modern: Switched On
BBC TWO | 60min | Dir: Kate Misrahi
Tour de Yorkshire
ITV Sport | V-Squared TV
The Culture Show: Roy Lichtenstein
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Richard Parkin
Mark Lawson Talks to: Sean Langan
BBC FOUR | 60min | Dir: Louise Bourner
The Culture Show: Down the Line
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Sarah Tiefrenbrun
The Culture Show: Cameron Carpenter
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Clare Tavernor
The One Show
BBC ONE | VT
The Culture Show: Lars von Trier
BBC TWO | VT | Dir: Clare Tavernor