Bacon's Arena

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.

Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences and his life. The documentary is...

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman...

A girl, a ghoul, a vampire, a bloodstain... who is it?, what happened? We found it on the floor

A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious...

Explorer, colonizer, founder of Québec, discoverer of Lake Champlain, governor of New France, cartographer and writer - few men in Canadian...

Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living...

Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank in the Pinochet dictatorship. Cano...

An in-depth and provocative look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots exploring the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African...

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short...

What would you do if your basic income was taken care of month after month? Would you stop working? Follow your passions? Take more risks? The...