The 80's: The Gadgets

Sensitive lookback on Françoise Hardy's career and life.

Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.

Swedish documentary from 1988 about one of the 80's era phenomena: yuppies. Through Tomas Dillén's documentary, we get to meet some young...

Blue-collar workers, executives, and other people at the Pirelli Bicocca plant talk about the upcoming shutdown of the factory. It's the end for a...

Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception...

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal"...

Documentary about the legendary Spanish Post-Punk band Paralis Permanente. A band that has gained a world wide cult following for their unique sound,...

Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the...

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...

The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from AIDS, Queen staged one of the biggest...

The inspirational story of how a group of working-class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow dared to dream. Those kids became Simple Minds,...

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes...