British Broadcasting Corporation
1) Archangel
Language
English
Description
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Russia's most closely guarded conspiracy.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers, and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot...
5) Straw dogs
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world.
Language
English
Description
This is based on the true story of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq during the Gulf War. An eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines with the mission to take out scud missle sight systems. Finding themselves surrounded and their communications cut off, the team heads toward the Syrian border. Four of the eight soldiers are captured and tortured. Out of an eight-man crew, only five returned alive.