Omnibus

Song of Summer

J.B. Priestley

Tribute to J.B. Priestley on his 75th birthday, including extracts from his work.

Olympia 1936

Blow The Wind Southerly

All My Loving

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.

Rossini: The Long Farewell

The Hunted Man

Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence

Rubinstein Speaks

Hadrian VII

Tallulah Bankhead

Make A Joyful Noise

Eric Porter

Cream Farewell Concert

The historic Farewell Concert at Albert Hall in London by one of rock's greatest groups has been dynamically recorded in

The Man Who Dances

Woman From The Shadows

Makers of the Queen's Music

From Today, Painting Is Dead

Myrna Loy

Malcolm Arnold

Shostakovich

A Couple of Brians

1969 Oscar Awards

Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go

The More We Are Together

Lawrence Durrell's Paris

Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina

Acting Styles in the 20th Century

The Vital Juices Are Russian

So What If It's Just Green Cheese?

An improvised celebration of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.

Omnibus at the Proms

Omnibus at the Proms: Sir Adrian Boult

Sir Henry Wood

J.B. Priestley

George Robey

Beautiful Beautiful

Sir Malcolm Sargent

What the Hell Ever Happens in Marlborough?

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dream Divided

Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner

Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features ex

Richter

The Confessions of Marian Evans/George Eliot

Noel Coward

Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?

Tommy Steele and Things

Unashamed Accompanist: Gerald Moore

Ian Fleming Creator of the James Bond Myth

Virginia Woolf: A Day's Sail, a Night's Darkness

Anna Pavlova: 1881 - 1931

Rope Ladder to the Moon: Jack Bruce

John Clare - I am

Dance of the Seven Veils

An imaginary portrait of composer Richard Strauss.

Who Will Buy a Bubble?

A group of people with regular jobs (factory clerk, Lighterman,Inspector etc) take part in an experimental and improvise

Ralph Vaughan Williams

On the Waltz

The Wandsworth Sound

1970 Oscar Awards

Kenneth More

To Leningrad with Love

The Hollywood Image-The Silent Era

The Hollywood Image-The Talkies

The Hollywood Image-The Post War Years

A Vow Fulfilled: Oberammergau

The Other Edward Heath

Satchmo at 70

Omnibus at the Proms

Ustinov's Expo

Heart of Britain

An examination of the life and work of Humphrey Jennings, scholar, writer painter but, above all, filmmaker.

Art Therapy-Shapes in the Wilderness

Everything in the Garden 1

The first part of this special documentary film traces the tempestuous history of the Royal Opera House from the time th

Everything in the Garden 2

A programme in two parts on the past, present and future of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

It'll Be All Live on the Night

An investigation of regional theatre in Britain. Amongst the Theatres - and their Artistic Directors - discussed are the

Robert Shaw: The Actor as Novelist

A Requiem for Modigliani

Rambert Remembers

Eisenstein 1

Eisenstein 2

I Regret Nothing

The Mysterious Mr Eliot

George Orwell: The Road to the Left

The film traces Orwell's life during 1936 when he spent time in the depressed north of England, married, set off for the

Chicago Blues

In Prison: A World of Its Own

The Making of Husbands

Brendan Behan

Henri Cartier Bresson

In Search of Lost Time

An Omnibus Arts documentary made to celebrate the centenary of the birth of author Marcel Proust. The film examines the

This Was Richard Tauber

The Passionate Hunter

Ingrid Bergman Remembers

Three Looms Waiting

James Mossman: To Be a Witness

TheTchaikovsky Competition

Bream at Stratford

Solzhenitsyn

Hail and Farewell-George Moore

Russell's Progress

Portrait of the filmmaker Ken Russell.

The Proms 71

Happy Birthday Dear Albert

Glenda Jackson: A Private Face in a Public Place

The Young Platform

David Lean

There Was an Old Person Called Lear...

Paul Klee: Heart of Creation

Rap Her Te Bank

An exploration of industrial Folksong in Britain from the birth of the Industrial Revolution through to contemporary eve

Mind You I Live Here: Stan Barstow

A portrait of Yorkshire writer and author Stan Barstow; includes contributions from his friends.

Will the real Mr Hogarth....

A personal appraisal of the caricaturist William Hogarth.

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Vive La Culture!

A tour of the arts,dance and theatre of Amiens, a town that makes car tyres.

Instant Nostalgia

Humphrey Bogart

Paradise Restored

A Modern Turn of Mind

Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John

Bruno Walter: The Face of Music

Rise Above It: Tyrone Guthrie

Man at the Met: Sir Rudolf Bing

The Fall of Venice

Actor, I Said

The Great American Dream Machine

Leningrad Reborn

Born Black Born British

Young West Indians give an impression of their life in this country through their paintings, music, and writing.

A Dignified Comic Set-to: Groucho Marx

The Man Behind the Mask: Marcel Marceau

Leeds International Piano Competition

The Last Samurai

The Wit & World of George Bernard Shaw

Christopher Plummer invites the audience into the world of great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, at his home with fello

Vincent the Dutchman

Who Needs a Conductor?

The Performers-Goya

Artists in Wartime

Great Orchestras: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Ned Kelly Country: The Paintings of Sidney Nolan

A journey across Australia through the paintings of Sidney Nolan. Earlier this year Sidney Nolan revisited the country

Max Beerbohm Remembers

Judy: Impressions of Garland

Memories of Judy Garland, from people who knew and worked with her.

The Savage Image

Why Culture?

But the People Are Beautiful: Andy Warhol

Fools Rush In: Morecambe and Wise

This film for Omnibus follows the two weeks of rehearsal that led up to the recording of a Morecambe and Wise Show that

The Name Grierson: The Word Documentary

Master of the Cello

It Must Be Something in the Water

Sir Noel Coward

Colette 1873-1954: A Window in the War

That's My Little Masterpiece

The Passing of the Year

An Omnibus calendar of tribal England. This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated with folk son

British Jazz

Leonardo-To Know How to See

Ginger Baker in Africa

The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio.

The Proms 1

The Proms 2

The Proms 3

The Proms 3

The Proms

A Question of Feeling

André Previn-The Other LSO

The Sydney Opera House

Sir Robert Helpmann

The British Hero

A tongue-in-cheek look at how heroes have been depicted through the ages.

George Stubbs: Make the Knife Go with the Pencil

Hollywood on Trial

The Runaway

François Truffaut

Bejart+Boulez = Ballet

It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction

Marcel Marceau: A Christmas Carol

A Dickens favourite as interpreted by Marcel Marceau the mime artist.

Gershwin's Porgy

Nureyev

Great Orchestras: The London Symphony

Acting a Part?

The Art of the Potter

Don't Take It for Granted

Claire Bloom

Kafka's Castle

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

The Invasion of Space: Novgorod Father of Russia

Wish You Were Here

Stars of British Music Hall and Variety take a look back at traditional seaside entertainment.

Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's

Omnibus presents a unique opportunity to see this highly acclaimed performance by Ella Fitzgerald with Tommy Flannagan (

Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show

Omnibus presents Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the

Crystal Palace-The Great Glass Hive

Alan Price: Between Today & Yesterday

W.B.Yeats and the Coming Times

Dame Ninette De Valois

Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer

Words by Johnny Mercer

Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song

The Goldwyn Touch

Joseph Conrad

Music from the Flames

This film is a documentary about Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

The O De Cologne Show

The Jean Rhys Woman

Oscar Peterson & André Previn

Find Me

The Need for Nightmare

How nightmares inspired the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century

Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

Documentary about the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, featuring many film clips and reminiscences from entertainers

A Circus for a School

Cathedral

Cracked Actor

BBC documentary showing David Bowie looking back on his Ziggy Stardust character during his Diamond Dogs tour.

Auguste Rodin: Changes

A partially dramatized arts programme about the life and work of Auguste Rodin

21 Not Out

Alphabets, Wild Things, Peter and a Golden Canary

Charles Chaplin: Tramp & Philosopher

The Friendly Invasion from Stephen Foster to Ragtime

Fidelio Finke: Where Are You Now?

African Sanctus

Nijinsky: God of the Dance

The Grierson Award

Great Orchestras: The Vienna Philharmonic

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

Irving Berlin

Presented by Benny Green and Roy Castle this is a delightful song-filled affectionate tribute to the career of Irving Be

A Step in the Jungle: Ronald Searle

Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour

The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony

Big Ware

Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne

Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind

Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death

Shafts of Sunlight

The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing

The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll

Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household

Jane Austen

A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.

Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley

Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays

The Golden Age of Spanish Painting

The Waltz

Omnibus in Ireland

All Clouds Are Clocks

An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001

A Matter of Life & Death

Constable Exhibition

Charles Marowitz

A Kind of Innocence

Placido Domingo

Portraits

The Honourable Out -Of- Step

Richard Avendon

The Spirit of the Land

Monsieur Hulot's Work

Far Away

John Constable

The Sound of Islam

The Green Table- Around the Green Table

An Evening with Gene Kelly

Dancer, choreographer, director and father of the 'new' American musical of the 1940s. He talks to Gavin Millar about hi

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where the

Beyond a Boundary

All the Superlatives - Anthony Dowell

Omnibus USA: Dave Brubeck

My Homeland

Art - To a Degree

Culture - Who Needs It?

Omnibus USA: Have a Nice Day

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Benjamin Britten

The First 70 Years Are the Worst-Two Lives in Music

New York, New York

Various artists and musicians at work, and performing, throughout a day in the SoHo district of New York City.

The Story of Pantomime

Pleasure at Her Majesty's

The Song of Mandelay

A White Wall in Alentejo

Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters

Colour Positive - The Poster Man

Paintings by El Greco

Paintings by Titian

Paintings by Velazquez

Omnibus USA: LA - My Home Town

Toccata at the Plaza

A fun documentary in which Organist Robin Richmond demonstrates the power, and tells the history, of Cinema Organs. The

Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract

Orpheus and His Flute

Walton No.1

Stan Tracey: The Original

Omnibus USA: Documentary America

Seeds of a New Life

The Lindsays/Half a Mile from Stoke

The Human Face

Walk to the Moon

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra -Stan's Band

Introduced by Humphrey Burton the Stan Kenton Band perform Jazz classics. Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne and Bud Shank are in

Italia: Florence After the Flood

Italia: The Madonna & the Volcano

Italia: A Line Through the Labrynth

Victims and Survivors: Whose Colour Is White?

Conductor's Eye View: Little Train

Unita- Bach at Tilford

The Santa Fe Opera

Music of a Thousand Autumns

'Gagaku' is the ancient Court music of Japan. In this film dancers and musicians discuss and demonstrate the traditional

The Nat Gonella Story

Big Band Jazz

Pure Radio

A Day in the Garden/A Piano's Story

The Garden Beyond

Poetry

For Love or Money 1

For Love or Money 2

Jeanne Moreau

Gustev Courbit/Engine of Revolution

Voices of Children/Profile of a Dancer

Everyone Is a Special Kind of Artist

Marevna & Marika

The Song of the White Horse

Warsaw Autumn

The Art Show of Ed Kienholz

Edward Kienholz was an American artist known for his found-object assemblages and installations he referred to as tablea

The People's Park: Disco Delight or What a Way to End It All

Leos Janacek: 1854-1928

The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean

The Record Machine

John Peel Interviews The Mekons, Sham 69, Alternative TV, The Slits, and UK Subs.

Living Room

Paul Gauguin: The Savage and the Construction of Paradise

Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision

A look at "Gonzo journalist", Hunter S. Thompson with his collaborator, British illustrator, Ralph Steadman.

628-E8

Its Stolen Your Face

After the Dream

Getting Away with Murder: The Childhood of Claude Chabrol

She Must Be Joking!

A look at stand-up comediennes.

Lillian Hellman

Rene Magritte

Words Fail Me

Brian Clarke: The Story So Far

TV documentary about a packed and unpredictable year in the life of 25 year-old artist in stained-glass, Brian Clarke.

Natalia Makarova

Drawn & Quartered

Kiss Me, Petruchio

Lotte Lenya

Documentary on the widow of Kurt Weill, the legendary actress and singer Lotte Lenya.

The Brothers Grimm

Dread, Beat N'Blood

The Long Walk of Fred Young

Pig Earth

Gold on Ice

Schalcken the Painter

Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man

Johnny Be Good

Blue Moon

Tuning In

Parting Shots From Animals

Graham Sutherland: The Artist On Film

Hollywood's Wild Angel

Home Movies

Windhover

Bugs and Daffy and Chuck and Porky

Coming Alive

Quinn Running

We Think The World of You

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

But The Client Loved It...

When The Dancing Had to Stop

The First Freedom

The Story of G...

Dallas The Big Store

Punch & Judy

Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

Norman Foster: Watch This Space

An Actor's Life For Me

Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches

Documentary which looks at the history of the English Stage Company and its base, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Pas

Mark Gertler

We Ask the Questions

Landseer: A Victorian Comedy

La Ronde / Frankie Howerd / Great Japan Exhibition

Cats / Holy Blood and The Holy Grail

Alan Ayckbourn / Humphrey Jennings / Labeque Sisters

Sir Anton Dolin / Susan Hill

Bad Apple / James Joyce's Ulysses

Lucie Rie

Paganini / Jonathan Miller / Brian Aldiss

The Cortege / Barbican / Nureyev and Brind

Berlin Requiem / Art and Architecture

Claire Bloom / Masquerade

The Oldest Dance in the World

Academy Awards / Julian Bream

Macbeth RSC / Welsh National Opera

Bernstein - Enigma Variations / Mary Renault

Susan Hill/Beagley Dances/Anton Dolin

Bob Hoskins - South Bank / Stephen Games / Dame Janet Baker

Maurice Sendak / Dennis Potter - Pennies From Heaven

Milan

Poppy - Monty Norman / John Sell Cotman

Apocalypse: Enrico Baj / Pas De Deux / Forss

Freya Stark in Italy

Brits on Broadway: The American Dance Machine

Photography / John Morley

The Folies Bergeres / Van Dyck in England

Raymond Mason in Paris / Pekinel Sisters

Wayne Sleep - Dash / Richard Payne Knight / Count Panza

Gardens / Ligeti

David Puttnam

Peter Pan RSC

Cecile Ousset

Jonathan Miller - Magic Flute / Steven Berkoff

Raymond Briggs and The Bomb / Sutton Place

The Elgin Marbles/Tim White

Alasdair Gray/Cimabue

Richard Long/Landscapes

Writers on the Right

Patrick Heron

Dirk Bogarde

Celibidache and Faure's Requiem

Peter Ustinov

Franco Zeffirelli

Roger Daltrey/The Taste Exhibition

The Old Vic

War Artists

Jean Seberg

Dimitris Sgouros/Eileen Agar

Tonight Omnibus features two artists separated by more than 60 years. The first is the 14-year-old Greek pianist, Dimitr

The Genius of Venice

Martin Bloch/Philip Core

St George's Chapel/Live Music Now

Dolin, Friends and Memories

Haydn's Lost Mass/Mr Broadway

Goodnight Vienna

A Londoner in New York

The Sound of Musak/Michael Clark

The sound of Muzak, investigates the background music that we always hear but to which we never listen. Featuring Alan F

Wharfedale Revisited/Squeezing the Frog

The Westmores of Hollywood

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

The Quest for Reginald Goodall

Wells and His Women

The Bristol Showboat Saga

The Face of Christ

Tuscany Revisited

Pennington on Chekov

Lord Gowrie/The Dance Umbrella

New Art

The Classiest Juke-Box in the World

The Killing Fields

From East Cheam to Earls Court

Malcolm Morley: The Outsider

Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

The Battle for Mansion House Square

The Ritz and the Cotton Club

Klemperer

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Saga on the South Bank

The Treble

The Salesman Goes to China

Quickly Up the Thames

Luck & Flaw's Illustrated Guide to Caricature

At the Proms 1

At the Proms 2

At the Proms 3

At the Proms 4

At the Proms 5

At the Proms 6

At the Proms 7

Episode 20

Episode 21

Huw Wheldon by His Friends

Lawrence and Arabia

Comic Relief

Made in Ealing

A look at the films produced at Ealing Film Studios in London.

Video Jukebox

The story of rock video in this Omnibus history presented by John Peel and John Walters. The roots of rock video are tra

Alice Walker & the Color Purple

The Last Moguls

Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!

The Proms -1

The Bolshoi Ballet

Jessye Norman

Meetings with Ambler

Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie

Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem

Courtney Pine and the New Jazz

The Mission

A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and t

Ray Charles

Cannon in Flowers

Rodin 1840-1917

George Grosz: Enemy of the State

Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.

Real Dreams

James Stirling

Michelangelo

A US Journey with Isaac Bashevis

Aretha Franklin

The Big Bang in the Book World

George Gershwin Remembered

The Hackney Way

Eudora Welty

Getting to Dylan

Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.

Towards Antara

Omnibus: 20th Anniversary Show

The Arts & Glasnost: Cinema

The Arts & Glasnost: Artists

The Arts & Glasnost: Writers

Arthur Miller

Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City

A Poisoned Chalice?

Lucien Freud

Memories of a Musical Dog

A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

My Homeland

Pablo Picasso: The Last Years

From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust

Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen

Whale Nation

Korea - A House Divided

Sir Fred- a Celilbration

Gwen: A Juliet Remembered

Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga

A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.

Harold Pinter

Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.

Charles: A Vision of Britain

Caryl Churchill

Paul Simon

Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Episode 16

Tribute to Laurence Olivier

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen

A Second Chance

Rape - That's Entertainment?

Raymond Carver

Butterfly

Art in the Ring

Art in the Third Reich- Power

Art in the Third Reich- Propaganda

Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz

Tim Rollins & Kos: The Art of Survival

The Kirov Ballet: Leningrad Legend

Pipe Dreams

My Most Difficult Book - The Story of 'Lolita'

How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.

Alan Ayckbourn: Sex and Politics

Michael Billington, drama critic of The Guardian newspaper, explores the life and work of Alan Ayckbourn, including his

Sunday in the Park with Stephen

The Novelist Who Would Be President

Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh [played by Linus Roache] meets Roulin, [played by Jim Broadbent]and Gaughin [played by Jack Shepherd]

Malkovich

Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics

King of the Blues

BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, t

Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles

Life of Python

Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story

L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein

Antoni Tapies

Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page

The Return of the Green Man

Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa

Behind the American Dream

A Profile of Michael Andrews

Inside the Russia House

Sidney Lumet

Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh

Episode 17

Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 20

La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam

The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition

Peter Greenaway

Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds

Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun

About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th cen

Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners

Malcolm Arnold at 70

Martha Gellhorn

Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.

Irek Mukhamedov

Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger

Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho

Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box

Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC

The Prince of Paisley Park

Benny Hill: Clown Imperial

Signs of the City

Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 20

Episode 21

Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 24

Barcelona with Robert Hughes

Angela Carter's Curious Room

Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years

The Piero Trail

Lost Paradise -The Gardens of Burlemarx

Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott

Who's This Nobody from Quebec?

Avigdor Arikha

Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier

Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear

Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue

John Ford: Part One

John Ford 2

The King's College Choir

Rudolf Nureyev

Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light

Wild Swans

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

Nina Simone -The Legend

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two

Sweet Home Chicago

When southern blues musicians moved north in the years after the war Chicago was an obvious destination, offering day jo

Houdini

The Magic Lantern

The Russian Striptease

Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask

The Boy Next Door

A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.

Who Killed Tchaikovsky

A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be h

Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You

A documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had bee

Sunset Boulevard

A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'

Freeze, But Is It Art?

The Piero Trail 1

Mister Abbott's Broadway

The Piero Trail 2

Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.

Hildegard

Bill T Jones

Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

Sir John Betjeman

Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

Duke Ellington 2

Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Doris Lessing: A Part of Me

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

About Face

The Trials of Dominick Dunne

Pink Floyd: The Story

A look back at the band's 30 year career.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Question for a Question

Stevenson's Travels 1

First part of a two part doc on Robert Louis Stevenson, tracing his life from his childhood in Edinburgh through teenage

Stevenson's Travels 2

Part 2 covers last 14 years of his life and work, including his return to America, touring the South Pacific, and settli

The Greatest Living Painter: De Kooning

Documentary about abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. This explores his late work and the allegations that

Carnival: The Biggest Party in the World

Joshua Bell

Ready When You Are, Mr Patel

Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield

Soul legend Curtis Mayfield talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his life, career and contribution to the Civil Rights M

Jean Renoir: From La Belle Epoque to WW1

Jean Renoir: Hollywood & Beyond

Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms

A look at the work of television comedy writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry, featuring interviews with the men themselve

Divas

Ginger Rogers: A Tribute

Hollywood star Ginger Rogers, who died at her California home on 25 April, began her career as a teenage vaudeville danc

Dave Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter

Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

Listen, Paula...

Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero

Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years.

Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1

Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 2

A Foundation Course in Art

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

A Day on the Mountain

Written on Water: A Film About Budapest

Eve Arnold in Retrospect

Documentary about a pioneering American photojournalist Eve Arnold.

Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art

The Royal Court Diaries

Dancing Through Darkness

A moving look at the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the final decade of his life, when he struggled to continue

The Wanderer

Sir Walter Scott: Wizard of the North

Balthus the Painter

Documentary about the famed Polish-French painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus.

Stars and their Mas

Mother's Day special.

Milos Forman

George Lucas - Flying Solo

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

Jack Rosenthal: Jack the Lad

Anthony Green Ra - 57 Up

Dame Henrietta's Dream

Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.

Michael Redgrave - My Father

Whatever Happened to Clement & LaFrenais?

East of Eastenders

Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home

If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling

Brit Art at the Royal Academy

Reeves & Mortimer: The Film

Sir George Solti: The Making of a Maestro

Antony Sher

Oscar

Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1

Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1

Citizen Kay

Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser

Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.

Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed

Jim Sheridan

André Previn

The Pied Piper of Harlem

Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment

A look at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Berkeley California, which was conceived by Halifax entrepreneur Ian Smit

Nick Hornby: Man of the Match

Jeffrey Archer: The Self Made Man

Stars and Their Pas

The Art of Diana

Alan McGee: The Man Who Discovered Oasis

Zizi je t'aime

Cat People

Darcey Bussell

Billy Fury: Halfway to Paradise

The Whirl of Vanity Fair

Julie Andrews

Starring - Animals

Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe

Mad About Monet

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 1

Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 2

Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 3

Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World

Chopin with Andras Schiff

Dino

Our Julie

Rebuilding the Reichstag

A Long Time Ago... The Story of Star Wars

On the eve of the release of the new Star Wars movie, Omnibus goes behind-the-scenes during its making and looks back at

Van Dyck Undressed

Roddy Doyle: Ha Ha Ha

Steve Martin: Seriously Funny

Blondie: Beneath the Bleach

Yes, Sir Nigel

Who the Dickens Is Mrs Gaskell?

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

Jennifer Saunders at the Barre

John Ruskin

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

The Naked Sculptor

Omnibus about British artist Anthony Gormley best known for The Angel of the North, a huge sculpture outside Newcastle.

The Great Gatsby

A profile from 2000 of writer F Scott Fitzgerald on the 75th anniversary of the publication of his most enduring achieve

Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth

A documentary on the life and career of actress Elizabeth Taylor, with clips from her films and interviews with friends

The Shock of the Old

Wallace & Gromit Go Chicken

Vinnie Goes to Hollywood

The Piero Trail

William Blake

John Barry: Licence to Thrill

Dame Alicia Markova: The People's Ballerina

Kingsley Amis

Dudley Moore: After the Laughter

Nancy Mitford

Placido Domingo: The King Of Opera

Fascinatin' Rhythm: The History of Tap

Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer and Neil Macgregor: Private View

My Fair Lady: Loverly

Ever since the 1914 production of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (based on Greek myth), the story of Eliza Doolitt

Botticelli: Visions of Violence and Beauty

Sebastian Faulks

Dino De Laurentiis

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Blew Up the World

David Hockney: A Secret Knowledge

Empire of the Nude

Joan Plowright: When Larry Met Joan

The 'Billy Elliot' Boy

Recording Jamie Bell's progress from unknown schoolboy to award-winning star of "Billy Elliot".

Frank Auerbach

Anthony Trollope

Chuck Jones: Mr Bugs Bunny

A UK broadcast of Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000).

Lucille Ball Queen of Comedy

Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond

"The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" (video release title) tells the full bizarre, tragic, but also celebratory story

Tolkien: The Master of Middle Earth

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and Me

For the first time J.K. Rowling tells in her own words the story of how the bestselling books of Harry Potter came to li

Mario Testino: Diana's Favourite Photographer

Robert Altman in England

Sir Nigel Hawthorne: Remembered

Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Treasure of Kabul

Matisse: Paradise Found

Matisse: Paradise Indulged

Edna O'Brien: Murder in the Forest

Who Killed Caravaggio?

Spotlights & Saris: Making Bombay Dreams

Anthony Hopkins: A Taste for Hannibal

Les Miserables Goes to China

Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper

Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.

Lord Byron: Exile on Fame Street

Dubbed "mad, bad and dangerous to know" by one of his many lovers, Lord Byron was a prototype celebrity whose legend has

Annie Proulx: Way Out West