In 1873, brave men known as the New Latvians held the first-ever Latvian song festival under the watchful eye of oppressive censorship. This massive celebration, featuring 1,003 singers – both men and women – changed the course of the nation’s history. It stands as a unique example of non-violent resistance in the fight for freedom against imperialism, led by Latvia’s entrepreneurs, writers, publicists and ordinary villagers.

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, embraces motherhood, and ultimately experiences a profound, life-changing love.

For almost a century and a half, Her Majesty's Ship Breadalbane lay wrecked and forgotten under the Arctic ice. In the spring of 1983, noted undersea explorer Dr. Joseph MacInnis led a team of twenty men on one of the most difficult, dangerous and unforgettable undersea adventures of the century--to put a diver on board the sunken vessel and recover some artifacts. This film, introduced by H.R.H. Prince Charles, provides a stunning visual account of this historic expedition.

In a remote village in Xinjiang, the Tajik people face a quiet crisis: the loss of their language. The older generation speaks in the ancient Tajik language using the Uyghur script, while the younger generation, influenced by government policies, speaks Mandarin and reads Chinese characters. This linguistic divide has created an invisible barrier between them, making communication between grandparents and children difficult. Through the filmmaker’s intimate journey in the village, the film explores the emotional distance that words can’t bridge. As the villagers navigate their daily lives—through rituals, songs, and silent gestures—a deep, unspoken bond emerges, transcending the limits of language. The film is a poetic meditation on the power of human connection in the face of cultural and linguistic loss.

Recorded for the fortieth anniversary of Abbey Road, a journey through some classic and curious Beatles covers in the BBC archives

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic locations, and although he updated the story to the present, he went to great lengths to recreate in the studio the detail of the actual mining galleries, exploiting the ability of film to be a recorder of contemporary reality.

Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, together with her uncle Valentin, collects shells and scraps of grenades to sell on the black market. Valentin dies of cancer, Alica's diagnosis is not good but there's no money for therapy. Alica's journey through the Land of Wonders begins.

An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons them both and the unlikely duo must learn to overcome their differences in order to survive the real life terrors of the Arctic.

Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter.