Patrick Duval
Recently added
The Children
Dec 05, 2008Horror
Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story
Nov 15, 2011The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Germans so successfully he was awarded their highest honour, the Iron Cross, the only UK citizen ever to have received one.
Documentary
Mrs Mandela
Jan 25, 2010How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
TV Movie
Riot
Jan 01, 1999John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.
Documentary
At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
Jan 01, 1980A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.
Drama
Piccadilly Circus by Night
Jan 01, 1995European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.
Drama
The Spy Who Caught a Cold
May 20, 1995Ten-year-old Clossie is having the worst holiday of her life – dragged to a seaside naturist resort by her fun-loving single mother. When Mum starts flirting with a fishmonger called Nick, there’s nothing for it but her to tail them with binoculars to try and unravel the adult mysteries of attraction.
Drama
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Mar 08, 2017Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
Documentary
Hockney
Nov 25, 2014Human, All Too Human
Feb 17, 1999European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.
Documentary
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Nov 16, 1988European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.
Drama
Shakespeare’s Wart
Jan 01, 1970A desperate for work actor auditions for Shakespeare's Henry IV part 2 & is forced to perform more & more ridiculous characters by two good cop bad cop directors
Comedy
Eugene Atget: Photographer
Jan 01, 1982Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.
Documentary
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Dec 07, 2007Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.
Documentary
Shine So Hard
Jan 01, 1982'Shine So Hard' is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 'Camo Tour'.
Seventeen
Jan 01, 1994Short drama about a seventeen year-old girl, the lifeguard she fancies, and her older sister who he fancies.
Drama
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
Apr 08, 2013BBC memorial portrait of recently deceased Margaret Thatcher. With the help of never-before-seen archive material and interviews with colleagues and family, a portrait is painted of a politician who many have an opinion about and who has left a great impression, both in British politics and in the world.
Documentary
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Jan 01, 1983
Elenya
Dec 11, 1992In Wales during World War Two, a German airman crash-lands in a wood and is found by 12-year-old Elenya. She decides to keep him a secret.
Documentary miniseries about contemporary artists who create challenging views of the human body. One of a 3-part series exploring how contemporary photography is challenging some of our deepest-held taboos about the human body. "American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin discusses his dark visions of human bodies.
Documentary
Le 27 janvier 1945, l'armée Rouge pénètre dans le camp de concentration d'Auschwitz et libère les derniers survivants. Le monde découvre un système d'une barbarie inouïe et jamais vue dans l'histoire de l'humanité : la " Solution finale ", les chambres à gaz et les fours crématoires. S'appuyant sur les meilleures sources historiques et sur une centaine d'entretiens inédits avec d'anciens bourreaux et des rescapés, Laurence Rees nous permet de comprendre de l'intérieur le fonctionnement de cette machine à tuer. La force et l'originalité de cette enquête unique sont de montrer comment les décisions qui ont abouti à la construction des camps ont mûri des années durant. Et l'on découvre, incrédules, qu'aujourd'hui encore nombre d'anciens nazis justifient leurs crimes par un simple et atroce : " Je pensais que c'était une bonne chose ".
Documentary
