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* Documentary Film
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald’s life.
89 minsAvailable for 2 months

* Documentary
Age of the Image
Series 1: 1. A New Reality
James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.

* Documentary
The Story of Welsh Art
From prehistoric to present
Huw Stephens reveals Wales' remarkable art and the people and places that inspired it.

* Documentary
Craftivism: Making a Difference
Getting crafty, changing minds
The crafters using their skills to make the world a better place, one stitch at a time.
59 minsAvailable for 11 months

* Arts
The Late Show
Face to Face: Maya Angelou
Jeremy Isaacs talks to the American writer Maya Angelou about her life. (1994)
38 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
The Joy of Painting
Happy little trees and soothing words with Bob Ross
30 minutes of bliss as the art sensation illustrates perfect, peaceful painting.

* Arts
Between the Covers
Celebrate the joy of reading
Sara Cox entertains a host of celebrity guests where books spark the banter.
29 minsAvailable for 7 months

* Music
Royal Opera All-Star Gala
Favourite arias and choruses
Covent Garden welcomes a stellar cast of singers performing a host of favourite works.
89 minsAvailable for 9 months

* History
Civilisations
The epic story of the art that makes us human
Simon Schama looks at the pivotal role art has played in the forging of humanity itself.

* Documentary
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
1/3 British comedy conventions
Mark Kermode shows how making fools of ourselves can make for seriously good cinema.

* Arts
Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
A feast of ballet favourites
A stunning collection of performances by stars such as Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.
89 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Arts
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt
Has the heist been solved?
Delving into a very different art world, one where good art is in the hands of bad men.
59 minsAvailable for 7 months

Culture in Quarantine: Great Performances Performance Live

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* Arts
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes
Dazzle your senses
A tale of obsession, possession and one girl's dream to be the greatest dancer.
96 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Drama
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Erica Whyman directs the RSC production of Shakespeare’s most famous story.
147 minsAvailable for 1 month

* Drama
Dracula by Northern Ballet
The legendary vampire lives on in this ballet adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic romance.
104 minsAvailable for 2 months

* Drama
Unprecedented
The radical way our world has changed
Lennie James, Alison Steadman, James Norton and many more star in tales of lockdown.

* Drama
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov's classic play, direct from the West End
A tale of family, regret, and unrequited love. Starring Toby Jones and Richard Armitage.
147 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Arts
Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
A feast of ballet favourites
A stunning collection of performances by stars such as Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.
89 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Arts
Artificial Things
Sophie Fiennes' award-winning dance film
Disabled and non-disabled dancers explore human interdependence and vulnerability.
25 minsAvailable for 8 months

* Documentary
Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings
Performance artist Bryony Kimmings writes and directs an operetta inspired by single mums.
59 minsAvailable for 5 months

* Drama
Performance Live
The Way Out
Expect the unexpected - a surreal theatrical adventure through an old town hall at night.
42 minsAvailable for 1 month

* Drama
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies.
90 minsAvailable for 1 month

* Arts
Revisor by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young
A performance capture of Revisor from dance-theatre makers Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young
90 minsAvailable for 2 months

* Arts
Culture in Quarantine
Filmed in Lockdown: Swan Lake Bath Ballet
Elite dancers from across the globe create a modern-day Swan Lake from their own bathtubs.
3 minsAvailable for 3 months

Books on Screen

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* Period Drama
The Luminaries
A love story swirling with mystery, murder and magic
At the far end of the world, two young lovers fight for a fortune, and for freedom.

* Period Drama
A Suitable Boy
Love will push you beyond your boundaries
In 1950s India, passionate Lata is torn between family and the promise of romance.

* Crime Drama
Strike: Series 1-4
Compelling drama by JK Rowling
He's wounded physically and emotionally, but Strike can crack the most complex of cases.

* Drama
Us
All episodes available now
Three weeks, six countries - one divorce?

* Crime Drama
McMafia
Welcome to the family business
There's no escape in this gritty tale of revenge and survival starring James Norton.

* Drama
Normal People
Get ready to fall in love
Popular Connell and aloof Marianne begin an electric affair that changes their lives.

* Drama
Killing Eve: Series 1-3
A deadly, obsessive game of cat and mouse
Eve wants excitement. Villanelle wants to kill. Starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh.

* Drama
Looking for Alaska
Find your friends. Find yourself
Miles’ life is one big blah, until he meets sexy, screwed-up, fascinating Alaska Young.

* Period Drama
Oliver Twist
Dickens' heartbreaking and uplifting tale
Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo in the story of a poor orphan in seedy, murky London.

* Crime Drama
Wallander: Series 1-4
Haunted by his past – and fearful for his future
Kenneth Branagh stars as the detective facing his most intractable adversary - himself.

* Drama
Noughts + Crosses
A black ruling class, a white uprising. Welcome to Albion
Sephy and Callum are in love - and on the wrong side of a race war.

* Drama
A Very English Scandal
Power, love, lies, and an incredible true story
Hugh Grant is Jeremy Thorpe, one of British politics’ rising stars... with a dark secret.

Stories To Get Stuck Into Shakespeare Plays

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* Arts
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt
Has the heist been solved?
Delving into a very different art world, one where good art is in the hands of bad men.
59 minsAvailable for 7 months

* Documentary
Arena
The Changin’ Times of Ike White
The story of Ike White, who recorded a legendary soul album while in jail for murder.
78 minsAvailable for 2 months

* Documentary
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
1/3 Legends and Pioneers
When art met activitism – a host of stars on the quest for inclusion on and off screen.

* History
African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power
Series 1: 1. Ethiopia
Afua Hirsch traces Ethiopia's 3,000-year history through its art and culture.

* History
Civilisations
The epic story of the art that makes us human
Simon Schama looks at the pivotal role art has played in the forging of humanity itself.

* Documentary
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Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
His journey from working-class Dudley to one of our most celebrated black performers.
74 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Documentary
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Pioneer, trailblazer, hero
The ultimate story of 80s art icon Keith Haring, who left a big legacy in his brief life.
89 minsAvailable for 3 months

* History
Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain's Hidden Art History
59 minsAvailable for 3 months

* History
Art of Persia
1/3 A remarkable trip around Iran’s rich, colourful past
Samira Ahmed unveils the stunning history of a Persian empire, its people and culture.

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* Documentary
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We'll Be Back?
Creative ways the arts are adapting, from drive-in operas to live streaming theatre.
60 minsAvailable for 11 months

* Documentary
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2020: My Name Is Kwame
Alan Yentob meets the playwright, actor and theatre director Kwame Kwei-Armah.
62 minsAvailable for 4 months

* Documentary
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2020: Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
Writer Lemn Sissay recalls being the only black child in a northern town in the 1970s.
67 minsAvailable for 4 months

* Documentary
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Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
His journey from working-class Dudley to one of our most celebrated black performers.
74 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Documentary
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Winter 2017/18: 6. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories
Alan Yentob talks to Andrew Lloyd Webber about his autobiography.
89 minsExpires tomorrow 10:30pm

* Arts
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Winter 2009: 1. The Year of Anish Kapoor
Alan Yentob meets Anish Kapoor, one of Britain's most accomplished and popular sculptors.
50 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
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Spring 2006: 4. A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
A profile of Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain's most successful living painters.
53 minsAvailable for over a year

Painters and their Masterpieces Painters

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* Arts
Maggi Hambling: Making Love with the Paint
Fearless, formidable and funny
To mark her 75th birthday, the artist tells her story as she works on a mystery canvas.
58 minsAvailable for 7 months

* Documentary
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Pioneer, trailblazer, hero
The ultimate story of 80s art icon Keith Haring, who left a big legacy in his brief life.
89 minsAvailable for 3 months

* Arts
Rita Duffy: Portrait of an Artist
Visual artist Rita Duffy tells how she has reflected NI society and politics in her work.
29 minsAvailable for 10 months

* Arts
Emin/Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
The Loneliness of the Soul
A landmark exhibit of Tracey Emin's work alongside paintings by her hero Edvard Munch.
39 minsAvailable for 9 months

* Arts
Titian – Behind Closed Doors
A look at Titian's greatest masterpieces, currently in quarantine at the National Gallery.
57 minsAvailable for 26 days

* Documentary
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
At Brighton Museum
Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri investigate two neglected religious paintings.

* History
Rossetti - Sex, Drugs and Oil Paint
Andrew Graham-Dixon considers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (2003)
29 minsAvailable for over a year

* Documentary
Bob Ross: The Happy Painter
How American painter Bob Ross became a pop culture icon.
61 minsAvailable for 4 months

* Documentary
Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait
A film study of Francis Bacon's paintings, which have been called sick and corrupt. (1966)
44 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
Monitor
Pop Goes the Easel
Ken Russell's film on the Young British Artists of the Pop Art movement. (1962)
42 minsAvailable for over a year

* Documentary
Beardsley and his Work
Aubrey Beardsley's drawings still retain their power to amuse and to shock. (1982)
50 minsAvailable for over a year

* History
Civilisations
Series 1: 3. Picturing Paradise
Simon Schama explores one of our deepest artistic urges - the depiction of nature.
59 minsAvailable for over a year

Books and Beyond

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* CBBC
Harry Potter: A History of Magic
JK Rowling reveals the real-life counterparts to her fantastical world.
59 minsAvailable for 26 days

* Documentary
Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
Delving into the past and present of Hilary Mantel.
59 minsAvailable for 15 days

* Arts
John Le Carre
In a 1966 interview, the acclaimed spy author proved cagey
Revealing his influences, the novelist kept quiet about his own MI5 and MI6 career.
30 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
Between the Covers
Celebrate the joy of reading
Sara Cox entertains a host of celebrity guests where books spark the banter.
29 minsAvailable for 7 months

* Documentary
Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors
Lucy Worsley traces the houses Jane Austen lived in to show how they influenced her work.
59 minsAvailable for 21 days

* Documentary
The Secret Life of Books
Series 1: 4. Great Expectations
Tony Jordan brings his writer's insight to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
29 minsAvailable for 26 days

* Documentary
The Bronte Business
Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes. (1977)
25 minsAvailable for over a year

* Documentary
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
Series 1: 1. Passions of the People...
Simon Schama explores the artists who created the secular icons of our democratic world.

* Arts
Read All About It!
Emma Vardy introduces a light-hearted celebration of books and reading.
28 minsAvailable for 7 months

* Arts
The Late Show
Face to Face: Maya Angelou
Jeremy Isaacs talks to the American writer Maya Angelou about her life. (1994)
38 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
Omnibus
Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
Author Patricia Cornwell is convinced she knows Jack the Ripper's true identity. (2002)
58 minsAvailable for over a year

* Arts
Mills and Boon: Writing for Love in Northern Ireland...
Pull back the covers
Revealing some of the bestselling Northern Irish authors sweeping readers off their feet.
30 minsAvailable for 10 months

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