Emmalou's First Year

Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm and storm.

A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

Find bric-a-brac and trinkets galore in this vividly colourful snapshot of Portobello Road Market.

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

Eric Swain and Troy Bernier are scientists by day and amateur filmmakers by night. Over the years these two friends have turned out many of their own amateur, sci-fi inspired movies. Journey to Planet X follows the filming of Planet X, the duo’s most ambitious endeavor to date, and sheds light on their unique brand of “movie magic.”

As historic ships vanish from British waters, a group of passionate volunteers fights to save the Balmoral—a 1949 passenger vessel moored in Bristol’s iconic harbour—battling time, bureaucracy, and financial struggles to preserve a piece of maritime history before it’s lost forever.

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.

Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.

Formato ridotto - Libere riscritture del cinema amatoriale

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

Rare amateur footage of East India.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.