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The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than...

An elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.

A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors.

Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the...

Records the run up to Christmas 1980 in Dallas, Texas, from the point of view of the city's largest department store, Neiman-Marcus.

This episode of the BBC television documentary series Man Alive documents the daily activities of Engine Co. 82 / Ladder 31 ("the busiest firehouse...

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

A profile from 1972 of celebrated Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In this film he talks about his uncompromising...

Documentary in which the survivors of the eleven members of a Belfast schoolboy football team in 1969, talk about their experience of the troubles in...

An old motorbike gets a new lease of life from a "grease monkey".

In the last week of May, the whole of India prays for the onset of the monsoon. Without its life-giving rains, the nation would become a land of dry...

A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah

Allen Meredith is a brilliant scientist but too mild-mannered to make an impact or fight for the money he needs. He has invented a process to...

Sally and George appear a happy middle class couple. However, they are childless, which is starting to cause tension. While George ponders an illegal...