Documentaries

Force of Nature Natalia follows a season in the life of dance superstar Natalia Osipova.

Watch a rarely-seen Amy Winehouse concert, plus extended interviews with the singer from The Day She Came to Dingle.

Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet her recordings still outsell many contemporary singers.

An intimate portrait of the life, art, his genius of jazz pianist Chick Corea, with performances filmed live at New York City’s Blue Note Club.

An immersion into the heart of Mourad Merzouki's next creation: Vertikal.

Hans van Manen has striven all his life to create meaning by marrying movement to music.

Mats Ek and Stéphane Bullion revisit their artistic relationship through the experience of the creation and interpretation of Another Place.

Take a musical road-trip from the south to the north of France through seven jazz festivals.

Watch a rarely-seen Amy Winehouse concert, plus extended interviews with the singer from The Day She Came to Dingle.

The documentary Knowledge is the Beginning tells the story of Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said's groundbreaking West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

An immersion into the heart of Mourad Merzouki's next creation: Vertikal.

Passionate about hip-hop, self-taught Marion Motin from Normandy has become an artist coveted by the greatest international pop stars.

Kent Nagano's sixteenth and final season approaches, he confides on classical music, his attachment to Montreal and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli takes us behind the scenes at some of the most prestigious, brilliant spectacles in Europe’s most renowned theatres.

Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet her recordings still outsell many contemporary singers.

The Bowmakers explores the world of the bow and the extraordinary masters who make them.

Famed for their innovation, the creative process of the BalletBoyz is explored in this film tracking the 14 days they have to create a new piece.

Documentary capturing the rise of all-male dance company, BalletBoyz from first auditions to a performance in Addis Ababa City Hall, Ethiopia.

For Richard Wagner there only seems to be either lovers or haters! No other composer is - rightly - as highly controversial as Wagner.

Czech choreographer Jirí Bubenícek and his twin brother and designer Otto adapt the award-winning film "The Piano" into a full-length ballet.

Janine Jansen embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to record a new album on twelve of the greatest violins to have ever been created.

Bernard Haitink talks about how his approach to conducting has changed during his 68 years in front of orchestras.

A tragicomic musical exploring the heights of the cabaret in the modern world following the 7 female artists of the freak cabaret Dakh Daughters Band.

Britain's greatest classical singer of the 20th century, Dame Janet Baker, talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her life

Get to know superstar Graman tenor, Jonas Kaufmann in this all-access documentary.

In 1960, Der Rosenkavalier was conducted by Herbert von Karajan at Salzburg’s brand-new Great Festival Hall.

April of 1975, a piece of music history is made in London's Fairfield Hall. Legendary pianist Arthur Rubinstein wants to leave a legacy to the world.

The performance of La Traviata at the 2005 Salzburg Festival causes Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón to rise to superstardom.

Martha Argerich’s appearance at the 1965 Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw marks the beginning of an incomparable career.

Maria Callas: Diva and style icon. She was one of the greatest opera singers of all time. In 1964 her career seemed to be over.

After 60 years absence from Russia, Vladimir Horowitz returned to his home country for the first time.

Anne-Sophie Mutter’s and Herbert von Karajan’s version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

In 1990 at Carnegie Hall, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle create a monument to the Afro-American musical tradition.

Uproar, disruption, violent dispute – this was the response to the much-anticipated centenary of the Bayreuth Festival in 1976.

In 1989, Nigel Kennedy’s recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons causes a turmoil in the world of classical music.

Three days after the Berlin Wall fell, Daniel Barenboim led the Berliner Philharmoniker in a free concert for residents of the former East Berlin.

In the spectacular Roman amphitheatre, nine thousand spectators await Montserrat Caballé in the title role of Norma.

Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise re-imagined in the wintry setting of an Alpine landscape.

An intimate documentary following the world-renowned performers of Cirque Du Soleil.

This is the story of how the most famous dancer that England ever produced was decieved and betrayed by those closest to her

ony Palmer's film was the first major exploration of the life and career of the great American soprano, Renée Fleming

Hosted by Martin Scorsese, The Oratorio is a documentary about the roots of opera in New York City.

WAITING FOR COLOR is a documentary dance film revealing the harsh reality of LGBTQ+ persecution in Chechnya and exploring paranoia, trauma, and hope.

Force of Nature Natalia follows a season in the life of dance superstar Natalia Osipova.

BalletBoyz directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt take viewers behind the scenes of the making of their first feature film, Young Men.

This documentary by Oscar-winner Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the fascinating American avant-garde composer John Cage.

Christian Spuck brought one of Verdi’s key works to the stage with Messa da Requiem

The Pianist of Yarmouk tells the true story of Ayham Ahmad - a Syrian refugee musician.

Until a virus called “SARS-Cov-19” plunged the world into a deep crisis in early 2020 – and with it the festival cities.

When a woman steps onto the conductor's podium, she is always one of "the first". Perhaps the times are finally changing.

The documentary “Taking Risks” follows all aspects of the production of The Rake's Progress

Magpie Dance presented their performance exploring the ‘Hidden Impact’ of people with learning disabilities, their journeys to the First World War.

Darcey Bussell gives an illuminating account of her own career from its earliest days.

Darcey Bussell draws on her vast experience to provide an authoritative history of the best ballets and the finest ballerinas.