Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth travels to the West Yorkshire moors, known as "Bronte Country". It is an area that shaped the Bronte sisters, and they have, in turn, helped shape it. He explores some of the influences on their writing.
Roving foodies Angela May and Bobby Chinn embark on two culinary journeys across Asia. Angela travels to the western coast of India to sample the cuisine and culture of the thriving melting pot that is Goa. Meanwhile, Bobby travels to Manila where he discovers a passionate and humorous people, and their love of food.
Documentary about the suicide of Mitchel Winters.
A travel documentary following writer Sigfrid Siwertz and photographer Gustaf Boge's trip to Sumatra.
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
Old recordings of the Bussaco Park in Portugal - founded in the collection of Norwegian film pioneer Hans Berge.
Travelogue showing the wonders of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves to each other, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship.
Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.
Blissful scenes of tourists arriving by boat and then sea bathing on a beach in the Venetian lagoon.
Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.
The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or car. Communication is delayed, fragmented, interrupted. Memories of a distant country.
A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.
Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.
A Day in TOKYO in 1968, Nostalgic bygone era. Planned by Japan National Tourism Organization. Produced by Koga Production. This film was produced to explain Tokyo for foreign tourists.
The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.
The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.
A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from Liverpool St. imagines the possible destinations of his fellow passengers.
Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family spend a peaceful day by a country river; a family goes to the seaside; some students visit Oxford during a music festival.
An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.