The BBCiplayer is listing this comedy classic by Howard Hawks. Well worth a watch.

The BBCiplayer is listing the Stephen Frears classic from 1988…well worth watching

The BBCiplayer is listing Francis ford Coppola’s classic…well worth a watch.

Also, The Fog of War and The Deer Hunter

The BBCiplayer is listing Stanley Kubrik’s, Shining. Well worth a look.

Here is a history of gospel music in six songs…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l9tk

BBC2TV showed a terrific documentary about the 19C industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie.

Carnegie made a great fortune, from nothing, and is one of the so-called robber-barons of 19C US industrial expansion. However, he resolved to give his entire fortune away…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r4bvk

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/26/20-must-see-documentaries-to-explain-the-world-in-2020

The BBC4TV Timeshift strand of documentaries showed a lovely film about the history of English seaside holidays…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000l9vf/timeshift-series-2-the-great-british-seaside-holiday

There was also a programme about Seaside holiday themed TV, and an episode of the classic TV comedy Hi-di-Hi.

Also, a repeat of Richard E Grant’s two-parter about the South-of-France. Terrific.

I’ve written about the seaside, here

https://www.are.na/block/3697046

BBC4TV showed a lovely documentary about the Rockfield recording studio in Monmouth, Wales.

The studio was created at the end of the 1960s by two farmer brothers as a residential studio providing a country oasis of bucolic calm. An oasis in which, ironically, heavy-metal, amongst other genres, flourished. Almost thirty years later, Oasis recorded there too.

The two brothers originally drove to London and met with George Martin at EMI. They came away without a record contract, but understanding that there wasn’t enough recording capacity for the developing music scene in Britain.

The Stone Roses liked it so much, they stayed for almost two years…

You can watch the film, here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l3vn

Interestingly, the freedom of this residential facility reminded me of Black Mountain College (USA) or Corsham Academy in the UK.

https://mubi.com/films/the-salt-of-the-earth

The mubi streaming service are showing the Salgado documentary by Wim Wenders (2104). Beautiful and heartbreaking…and only a couple of moments when I think he crossed a line.

Really interesting to watch this against the 2020 backdrop of climate emergency and pandemic…