World Cup: Summer of Love

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

Takes students to England to show them the land that inspired many great writers... the London of Chaucer, Dickens and Browning...the countryside which was so meaningful to Shakespeare, Keates, Wordsworth and Kipling...and the sea as Coleridge, Conrad and Masefield wrote of it.

An investigation into the fascinating discovery of the first State Bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York. This fascinating bed is one of the most significant examples of Tudor furniture in existence today, and its iconography sheds new light on our understating of the Tudor Monarchy. The film represents the culmination of many years of in depth research. A team of experts, including the beds current owner, have decoded the bed’s story via its iconography and symbolism. These tell the story of the bed to academics, historians, and anyone with interest in the Tudor period.

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.

Shown as part of the BBC's Modern Times series. Think of England shows Parr talking to the many people he encountered in the summer of 1999. He innocently asked people what it took to be English, and this simple question provided many revealing answers.

In the Cumbrian seaside village of Siddick, 9-year-old Laura-Anne narrates a year in her life in rhyming couplets, as she navigates the pitfalls of young love. Enduring various betrayals and heartbreaks, she persists in her quest to find her prince.

A film which marks the 50th anniversary of England's victory in the 1966 World Cup, and uncovers the truth behind the man who led them to it... Bo66y is a powerful, dramatic and deeply personal portrait of a genuine footballing icon. Moore fought many battles besides those witnessed by millions on the football field. Behind the glory lies the story of a man who faced highs and lows with the same strength and bravery. But he died young, cruelly shunned by the game and by the very people who owed him so much. The story is told by his two wives, his friends and fans, including Pele, Sir Geoff Hurst Harry Redknapp, Ray Davies, Ray Winstone and Russell Brand, and more than 30 others, whose words are mixed with as yet unseen archive footage.

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three members of the gang to see what has happened to them in the intervening years.

Right to the end, they thrilled the whole of France and turned this sporting event into a moment of jubilation. In this never-before-seen documentary, relive the French Football Team's incredible journey to the 2022TM World Cup in Qatar! Thanks to a wealth of exclusive footage, discover what went on behind the scenes for Les Bleus. Raphaël Varane's outburst at half-time of the France-Poland Round of 8, Antoine Griezmann's strong words at half-time of the England-France quarter-final or Didier Deschamps' speeches: relive the pivotal moments of the French team. How did Les Bleus manage to turn things around in the final, thanks in particular to Kylian Mbappé's first speech at half-time? How did this group of young players come together over the days to form a formidable collective? How did the popular fervor grow from match to match? Find out all about it in this exceptional documentary, with Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu as key witnesses.

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution upon which both the left and the right could agree. When the team pulled off a stunning 1-0 upset against Mexico and qualified to compete in the 1982 World Cup, it was a high point for the tiny country's national pride. Unfortunately, the team's Cinderella story devolved into a nightmarish farce.

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in France. Stéphane Meunier spent the whole time filming the players, the coach and some other important characters of this victory, giving us a very intimate and nice view of them, as if we were with them.