Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin inventor of the theremin the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later he is brought back to America for a...
Country: United States
Genre: Western
Southern veteran Ned Britt returns home to Fort Worth after the Civil War with his mentor newspaperman Ben Garvin along with his young apprentice in hopes of building the town into a modern metropolis. However the area is terrorized by the ruthless Gabe Clevenger and his gang of hired guns. Britt wonders whose side his old friend Blair Lunsford is on. Lunsford has used the unrest to buy up...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama, Sport
Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the potential but has never had the courage or discipline to make anything of it. Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson whilst playing for his pub team. Ken is the manager of Hallam football club a local non-league...
Country: United States
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must explain are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiters orbit and the fate of H.A.L. the Discoverys sentient computer. Based on a novel written by...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Comedy, Horror
The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. Hes kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case and he doesnt have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr...
Country: United States
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
When Gobbers house burns down the old Viking is convinced that his nemesis the legendary Boneknapper Dragon is responsible. Bent on revenge Gobber resolves to hunt it down once and for all despite the fact that no one believes the dragon exists. Regardless Hiccup and the gang decide to accompany him for his own good. On the sea voyage Gobber tells the story of his rivalry with the beast...
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
As the title suggests this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bachs Goldberg Variations the recording that Gould made famous each giving us an insight into some aspect of Goulds life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing...
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