THE WINDSORS-INSIDE THE ROYAL DYNASTY

From the producers of "The Kennedys," this new six-part CNN Original Series tells the incredible, dramatic and emotional tale of the British Royal Family known as The Windsors. Using stunning archive and interviews with insiders and experts, the series weaves together the true story of the Windsor dynasty.

CNN

THE DUEL-HITLER VS CHURCHILL

A 90 min TV movie detailing the tumultuous early days of WWII between 10 May-31 July 1940. The film combines eye witness accounts, drama recon and extensive use of archive to tell this this eighty day struggle that shaped our modern world

Channel 4 Director Simon Berthon

THE ART OF CORNWALL

The art colony of St Ives in Cornwall became as important as Paris or London in the history of modernism during a golden creative period between the 1920s and 1960s. The dramatic lives and works of eight artists who most made this miracle possible, from Kit Wood and Alfred Wallis to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, are featured in a documentary which offers an alternative history of the 20th century avant-garde as well as a vivid portrayal of the history and landscapes of Cornwall itself.

BBC TV Director Spike Gellinger

PHILIP ROTH-UNLEASHED PARTS 1&2

Comprehensive Survey of a Great Author's Life and Work

The films take the form of an extended interview format combined with extracts from his novels. Roth himself narrates the passages and extensive use of archive is utilised to illustrate the context. On viewing the final cuts, Roth himself commented on the accuracy of the archive illustrations of his work. This was his final appearance on camera.

Although now officially retired from novel-writing, Philip Roth can lay claim to be one of America's greatest living novelists. Throughout his long career he has experimented both with the content and form of the novel, to such an extent that the overarching themes of his oeuvre are very difficult to identify.

He remains a protean figure, often writing autobiographically (using his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman), but seldom revealing too much about himself. This public persona remains much the same in Alan Yentob's documentary - although willingly consenting to be interviewed, he reveals little about himself, even though he seems ready and willing to talk about his work. This program (the first in a two- parter) focuses especially on Roth's Jewishness, and how it has colored much of his work: at once an insider and an outsider, he has rarely felt part of the New York society he has mostly inhabited. Most of his novels are about alienation, whether physical or mental; and how the protagonists learn to cope - or not to cope - with it. While critics have often represented him as a 'shocking' novelist (especially after the publication of PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT), Roth himself rejects that construction, preferring instead to concentrate on his experiments with the novelistic form.

BBC Imagine Special Directed by Sarah Aspinall

MEL BROOKS UNWRAPPED

In Mel Brooks: Unwrapped, a new documentary streaming on HBO, Brooks drums on his desk, shops at Whole Foods for pasta, and drives around Los Angeles during sunset. Often unprovoked, he bursts into song. He sits, he chats, he watches TV. He does what many people do. Except he’s Mel Brooks and he’s 93 years old and I want to watch every single second of it.

Just point the camera at Brooks so we can save as much of this natural resource as possible. (review by Jacob Rosenberg)

BBC Imagine Special/ HBO Director Alan Yentob