Christopher Sykes Movies
- 1980
The Slatemakers
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A look at the decline of the 200-year-old slate roofing tile industry in North Wales, which once supported thousands of workers and their families...
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- 1980
Mentioned in Dispatches
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The extraordinary story of Tim Page, war photographer. Page was wounded four times in Vietnam. The fourth and final time, he was logged 'dead on...
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- 1986
The Last Moguls
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Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!
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- 2003
To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
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Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.
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- 2015
Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema
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The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem...
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- 1987
Getting to Dylan
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In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in...
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- 2004
Dear Mr. Tzabar,
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A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli...
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- 1981
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made...
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- 1998
Shooting Versace
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Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?
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- 1989
Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life
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The life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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- 1988
The Quest for Tannu Tuva
The Quest for Tannu Tuva01988HD
The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the...
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- 1992
The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing
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A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing.
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- 1993
No Ordinary Genius
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An intimate, moving, and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynman—the most extraordinary scientist of his age.
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- 1987
Letters from an Indian Clerk
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The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work...
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- 1988
Exiles: Edward Said
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Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.
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- 1982
Before the Massacre
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A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of...
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- 1983
After the Massacre
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97 British soldiers are sent to Beirut as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in the wake of the September 1982 Sabra-Chatilla massacre.
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