The Edinburgh Festival 1964

A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.

Activity on the streets of Edinburgh during its giant annual arts festival.

Bill Hicks: At the Edinburgh Festival

In between performing at Dublin's maximum security prison and staging the Conflict Revolution gig Andrew Maxwell performs his sell out, five star performance at the 2008 Edinburgh festival. If you like your comedy funny and your storytelling memorable, this is the live show for you. "I've seen the future of Irish Comedy and its name is Andrew Maxwell" Irish Times

On 3 August 2014 Scroobius Pip released his first Live DVD Words, a 2 disc special released on his own Speech Development Records. The DVD features his spoken word show Words live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013. Words was first premiered at Latitude Festival to a crowd of over 4000 festival goers. Scroobius Pip then made his debut appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a 19-show run of Words. The show sold out every night and garnered huge critical acclaim, with The Scotsman declaring it: ‘A bewitching mixture of too-cool-for-school nonchalance and laser-like intensity.

Arthur Smith's love letter to the playground of the imagination that is the Edinburgh Fringe on its 75th birthday. Recalling some of the triumphs, disasters, love affairs and arrests of his many Augusts in Auld Reekie. Hamlet, Colditz, Leonard Cohen, Dante, dementia, Arthur's Seat, Gary Lineker and the Leith Police all feature in this moving hour of revelations, songs, poems, gags and bad costumes. This is Arthur's last-ever Edinburgh show so you had better be there.

Live performance specially recorded for Whistle Test from the Reggae Concert at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973, featuring The Cimarons, Winston Groovy, Dennis Alcapone, The Marvels, Nicky Thomas and The Pioneers.

Pleasance Edinburgh opened as part of the 1985 Festival Fringe. It now runs many performances spaced, centered around the Pleasance Dome and Pleasance Courtyard.

Between water, reeds, and sky: The Danube Delta reveals the wild side of Europe. This documentary takes you into a natural paradise that is constantly changing – and enchanting.

The bulls are on the loose in a small town in northern Germany—101 bull figures are hidden throughout the town. The background and production of the art objects are discussed.

Dix Jours dans la guerre d'Espagne

Especial Caetano Veloso 80 Anos

Seve: The Untold Story of Seve Ballesteros

A Spanish firefighter risks everything to tackle one of the most extreme sporting events on the planet—a solo, non-stop sailing race around the world.

Debunking the image often conjured of the stereotypical Parisian woman, or la parisienne — white, clad in high-end fashion, upper-class, thin — the film interviews countless Parisian women who often feel invisibilized by this narrow representation.

Modern work tools are created thanks to the development of science, as a result of the transfer of knowledge between generations. A review of the tradition of Polish science from the times of Nicolaus Copernicus to the establishment of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [35mm online]

Can both your parents with mental disorders affect you being a teacher?

Thé mania

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

A documentary short about a B&B owner with right hand cut off.