TV Revolution

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November 2024 •English

Colm Meaney presents a celebration of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Dublin family the Rabbittes and the film adaptations of the books, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van.

ORTF, ils ont inventé la télévision

November 2024 •French

Tuning In: Fifty Years on the CBC

November 2024 •English

Taking a deliberately post-modern approach to the CBC and Canadian culture, the series raids the bulging vaults of the national broadcaster. Viewers will see images of Canada’s past five decades, ranging from the long-running celebrity quiz show Front Page Challenge through ’70s pop star Rene Simard to stirring footage of legendary hockey icons. Deliberately using a stylistic melange, the series will use contemporary footage shot in Betacam video and Super 8 with old kinescopes from the ’50s, black-and-white footage of the ’60s and the more standard color format from the ’70s through the ’90s.

La Télé des années 90

November 2024 •French

The Sound of TV with Neil Brand

November 2024 •English

Three-part documentary series that explores the history and use of music in television.

La Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé

November 2024 •French

Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

November 2024 •English

In the '90s, TV's stunt-filled "American Gladiators" thrilled fans. This docuseries explores the show's success — and how it almost ended before it began.

Out

November 2024 •Norwegian

Parts of Norway's queer history are seen through the eyes and hearts of more than 50 famous Norwegians.

Bratislavské pondelky

November 2024 •Slovak

ExpedienTV

November 2024 •Spanish

TVN - 40 años - Tu historia es mi historia

November 2024 •Spanish

TV o no TV

November 2024 •Spanish

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

November 2024 •French

The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).

La Guerre de la TNT

November 2024 •French

La Guerre des télés

November 2024 •French

The Home That 2 Built

November 2024 •English

The series looked back at British lifestyle television programmes shown on the channel from across the decades, with episodes on the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the 2000s.

The Radharc Squad

November 2024 •English

On the 50th anniversary of RTÉ TV and Radharc, the first independent production company to make programmes for Irish television, this 2-part series reveals the remarkable story and legacy of this maverick group of filmmaker priests who, between 1962 and 1996, produced over 400 documentaries in 75 countries on a range of social, political, and religious issues.

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

November 2024 •English

A portrait of celebrated filmmaker David Chase: his life, his career and his groundbreaking work on the HBO original series The Sopranos.

The Village

November 2024 •English

Observational documentary following a year in Portmeirion - the Italianate village in North Wales made famous as the filming location for cult television series The Prisoner (1967).

One Day in the Life of Television

November 2024 •English

One day in the life of television is a documentary that was broadcast on ITV on 1 November 1989. Filmed by over fifty crews exactly one year earlier, it was a huge behind-the-scenes look at a wide range of activities involved in the production, reception and marketing of British television. The project was organised by the British Film Institute and produced and directed for television by Peter Kosminsky. A book by Sean Day-Lewis was published to accompany the documentary. It contained the thoughts of people throughout Britain, including industry professionals, who recorded their feelings and experiences of television viewing on 1 November 1988, the day that the documentary was filmed.