Bacon's Arena

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.

Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences and his life. The documentary is...

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman...

A girl, a ghoul, a vampire, a bloodstain... who is it?, what happened? We found it on the floor

A real-life “Tom and Jerry” scenario takes place in this warm-hearted documentary about a family cat chasing a pet mouse left by previous...

Tsar Nicholas II arrives in Paris.

A Buddhist scientist from Bangkok decides to cryo-preserve his daughter's brain. As scandal swirls around the family, they struggle to grieve a child...

The story of the 2008/2009 Vendée Globe race. 30 skippers embark on a quest to be the fastest to sail 27000 miles around the world, non stop,...

A rare glimpse on the life and career of an otherwise reclusive World Rally Championship driver from Estonia. Often characterized as shy, retiring...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the...