The leader of a gang of notorious criminals in Almaty, Kazakhstan defends himself in court, is sentenced to ten years in prison, organizes the country’s first prison cooperative, and, after his release, becomes arm wrestling champion of the USSR.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Goering: Nazi Number One
This is the story of an incredible rise to power, the most comprehensive documentary on Hermann Goering ever made. He was a man of many faces: vain, ambitious, more brutal than any other of Hitler’s minions, yet the most popular Nazi official of all, at times even more popular than Hitler himself. He embodied the jovial side of the Third Reich. Yet the same man who organised dissolute bacchanals also founded the Gestapo, set up the first concentration camps, and had his own comrades murdered in the purge of 1934. These unique personal records form the largest and most important single film find from the Nazi era in past years.
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Number One
Twelve-year-old Arianas is preparing for the Lithuanian championship of Standard and Latin American dances with his partner. The couple must understand the world of adults – learn to demonstrate masculinity, feminine seduction and self-selling. But is that enough to win the championship?
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On Company Business
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
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Trey: The Lone Star Medium
Trey Ganem, a fabricator who specialises in making custom caskets and urns for clients, uses his psychic gift of communicating with the dead to deliver their messages to their respective loved ones.
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Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal
This two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed Britain during the 20th century.
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Death Scenes
Vintage Hollywood themed shockumentary.
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New Order: Brixton Academy
Live concert from 4 April 1987 by the British band New Order at The Academy in Brixton, a fundraising performance for International AIDS Day. Song list: Bizarre Love Triangle, Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Dreams Never End, Love vigilantes, Confusion, Age of Consent, Temptation.
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Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From
When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC ‘Omnibus’ shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream – about the people whose dreams go belly-up.