Recognising his genius Charles Chaplin won a special Academy Award for acting writing producing & directing The Circus. In this silent comedy The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top The Tramp is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police & immediately gets hired by the ringmaster. ...

This season on The City Whitney Roxy Olivia & Erin will learn that in New York City climbing your way to the top means doing it alongside both friends & enemies. Whitney gets a last-minute chance of a lifetime — a show at New York Fashion Week. After the chaos & fanfare subsides Whitney has more than ever to do to prove herself as a designer. First up is creating a new line for the new season & learning from Kelly Cutrone how to promote herself & her br&. She's still got Roxy in her corner & Roxy owes her both for a place to crash & the job at People's Revolution. But Roxy is learning that she's too strong-minded to live in Whitney's shadow. At ELLE Magazine Olivia & Erin are asked by Joe Zee to find some way to get along. However their competition is far from over as Olivia is offered an on-camera job by Joe. But Erin is at the top of her game & sees through Olivia now more than ever. New season. New betrayals. New alliances. ...

The Civil War: Commemorative Edition is a remarkable series directed by Emmy Award-winner Ken Burns telling the dramatic story of America's struggle to preserve democracy by erasing the stain of slavery: but at a cost of 620 000 lives. Over 11 gripping hours Burns traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln & the beginnings of Reconstruction. ...

This collection of films directed by the phenomenally talented Claire Denis serve as a showcase of her decade-spanning award-winning career beginning with her international breakthrough Chocolat & carrying through to her most recent work White Material. Brave challenging & frequently controversial Claire Denis is one of the most important French filmmakers of her generation & is the most critically acclaimed female director working in the world today. Also

Includes:: Beau Travail & Nénette et Boni.

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The Great Maximus (Claude Rains – Casablanca Lawrence of Arabia) has got a new act for the music halls where he makes his living. Working with his beautiful wife Rene (Fay Wray – King Kong) he poses as a mind reader. It’s all a trick of course: he certainly doesn’t have the gift for real. Or so he thinks... When he correctly predicts a terrible train crash Maximus becomes an instant celebrity. But his new-found fame & his friendship with sultry Christine Shawn (Jane Baxter) threatens his marriage. Worse is to come: he is accused not of foreseeing accidents but actually causing them. ...

Thirty-five thousand years ago in the twilight of the Neanderthal age an orphaned Cro-Magnon child Ayla is taken in by a primitive tribe known as the Clan of the Cave Bear. As she grows up she tests the limits of the tribal codes & knowledge as her instincts guide her to a future they cannot share – the dawn of humanity’s new age. ...

Towards the end of the 1950s four young Irishmen who had emigrated to North America to pursue fame & fortune in the theatre formed a singing group. Intending only to play the small taverns & clubs of Greenwich Village two lucky breaks propelled them to stardom. A fortuitous guess spot on the Ed Sullivan Show turning into 19 minutes live to 80 million people. The rest as they say is history. By the 1960s they were the best-known Irishmen in the world playing to packed houses from Sydney to San Francisco. Then years later after 40 profitable record albums countless TV appearances & sell-out concerts they broke up each wanting to pursue their individual interests. Now nearly twenty years later we look back on their phenomenon & the times. We visit the Clancys & Makems Irish roots the Greenwich Village pubs they started in & even catch a glimpse of the Ed Sullivan Show that changed their careers. Interviews with Bob Dylan (his first on film in many years) Mary Travers & New York Mayor Ed Koch among others illustrate the pronounced influence The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem have had. Interwoven with his look back in their sold-out reunion concert at Lincoln Center. That night as so many in the past the audience was a cross-section of humanity revelling in the Irishness of us all. ...

1. The Rattlin Bog 2. Red Fox 3. Why Dont You Get Johnnys Supper 4. Mitty Matty 5. Soldier Soldier 6. A Big Ships Sailing 7. Dowdling 8. Goddie On A Saucer 9. O-Row Shay Dho Vaha Wal-Yeh 10. Jeremiah Blow The Fire 11. Ive Come All The Way From Dublin 12. She Can Knit 13. Amhran Dochais 14. Frog In The Well 15. She Didnt Dance 16. As I Roved Out 17. Sean Dun Na Ngall 18. When I Was Young 19. Paper & Pins 20. Drumin Donn Dilis 21. Oh Rodger Rum 22. Dance To Your Daddy 23. The Wren Song 24. Seotin Seo (Shoheen Sho) 25. All Along 26. Wallflower 27. A Man Of Double Deed 28. The Little Beggarman 29. The Butcher Boy 30. Blow Ye Winds 31. The Month Of January 32. The Lowlands Of Holland 33. Kitty Magee 34. As I Roved Out 35. The Foggy Dew 36. Mrs. Mc Grath 37. Bold ODonahue 38. The Connemara Cradle Song 39. The Irish Rover ...

Revolutionary. Political. These two words sum up the The Clashs double-album London Calling. Tracks such as Spanish Bombs London Calling & The Guns of Brixton explore the bands familiar themes of working-class rebellion & anarchy & define the album. But there is this is much more than a punk rallying call as the album combines an eclectic array of styles including reggae rockabilly ska New Orleans R&B pop lounge jazz & hard rock. The result is one of the greatest rock & roll albums ever recorded. This critical review of the London Calling features rare live performances alongside interviews with legendary filmmaker & DJ Don Letts (who toured with The Clash) & analysis from a leading team of rock journalists & critics. The DVD features highlights from Should I Stay or Should I Go Londons Burning white Riot Rock The Casbah I Fought The Law London Calling & many more. ...

The greatest lessons are learnt when life enters the classroom. The tense environment of a tough inner-city school where cultures & attitudes often clash is revealed in this award-winning drama based on François Bégaudeau’s best-selling novel Between the Walls. Bégaudeau himself stars as an idealistic teacher of a class of unruly 15 year-olds whose spiky independence present a constant challenge to his sometimes unconventional teaching methods. Featuring an outstanding non-professional cast of real teachers & students Laurent Cantet’s gripping & sharply observed film offers a microcosm of contemporary society & explores the issues & challenges of education today. ...