Movies:

  • 1970
    Performance

    Performance (1970)

    Performance

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    In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive....

    Performance
  • 1971
    200 Motels

    200 Motels (1971)

    200 Motels

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    "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life ...

    200 Motels
  • 2013
    The Piano Room

    The Piano Room (2013)

    The Piano Room

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    A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room....

    The Piano Room
  • 2012
    Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

    Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)

    Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

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    Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela...

    Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
  • 1988
    Testimony

    Testimony (1988)

    Testimony

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    The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin....

    Testimony
  • 1987
    Code Name: Vengeance

    Code Name: Vengeance (1987)

    Code Name: Vengeance

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    Soldier of fortune, Monroe Bieler, is sent to dole out some American-style justice when the wife and child of an African president are kidnapped by terrorists....

    Code Name: Vengeance
  • 1984
    Puccini

    Puccini (1984)

    Puccini

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    In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he den...

    Puccini
  • 1968
    All My Loving

    All My Loving (1968)

    All My Loving

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    Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI...

    All My Loving
  • 2010
    Rope Ladder to the Moon

    Rope Ladder to the Moon (2010)

    Rope Ladder to the Moon

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    Tony Palmer directs this 1970 documentary about Scottish bass player and former Cream member Jack Bruce. The film tracks Bruce's life from his childhood in the Gorbals to the height of his fame with Cream and beyond....

    Rope Ladder to the Moon
  • 1993
    Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

    Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993)

    Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

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    This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta alongside powerful footage of Górecki at Auschwitz and Birkenau....

    Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
  • 1990
    The Children

    The Children (1990)

    The Children

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    Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship....

    The Children
  • 1981
    Death in Venice

    Death in Venice (1981)

    Death in Venice

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    Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed....

    Death in Venice
  • 1988
    In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

    In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988)

    In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

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    Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton....

    In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
  • 1977
    Mighty Good: The Beatles

    Mighty Good: The Beatles (1977)

    Mighty Good: The Beatles

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    No musical group has had as profound an impact on pop music as The Beatles. Tony Palmer's groundbreaking documentary gives us an intimate look at one of the most influential groups in musical history....

    Mighty Good: The Beatles
  • 1988
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

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    A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and suc...

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
  • 1980
    The Space Movie

    The Space Movie (1980)

    The Space Movie

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    1969's Apollo 11 mission to the moon is highlighted in this tribute to the history of the United States' space program....

    The Space Movie
  • 1985
    God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

    God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)

    God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

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    The story of the last years of Handel....

    God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
  • 1972
    Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort

    Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (1972)

    Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort

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    Directed by renowned British film director Tony Palmer, this film captures the band at the Maidstone Fiesta during the summer of 1970 as they run through their set of the time. This included various jigs and reels, and the songs Sir Patrick Spens and...

    Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
  • 2011
    Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

    Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)

    Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

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    The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his chu...

    Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
  • 1978
    Callas: A Documentary

    Callas: A Documentary (1978)

    Callas: A Documentary

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    Narrated by cinema legend Franco Zeffirelli, this intimate made-for-television documentary traces the life and times of the mercurial Maria Callas, one of the most renowned and respected operatic divas of the mid-20th century. Rare authentic footage,...

    Callas: A Documentary