Movies: Bob Carruthers

A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus....

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Rock Milestones: Led Zeppelin's IV zeroes in on Zeppelin's fourth LP, an untitled effort that shot to the top of the charts upon release circa November 8, 1971, and single-handedly shaped the landscape of hard rock over the ensuing decade. Rock Miles...

It is now over 25 years since the launch of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. T...

Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb is a documentary film reviewing the music and career of Pink Floyd - a complete case study of the work of Pink Floyd on record, film and in performance. Drawing on rare concert films and penetrating interviews with the cri...

Critical review of the band's amazing rise to power from the very beginning to the departure of "Fast" Eddie Clarke....

In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King Duncan slain, and is duly crowned in his place. But that's where his problems really begin......

Through the recollections and insights of those who knew The Beatles best, this documentary examines the creative processes and personal chemistry that contributed to some of the greatest music ever made....

With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are one of the highest selling recording groups of all time. From being one of the most revered bands of the 1970s led by Peter Gabriel, they went on to achieve massive commercial success...

An incisive documentary of how Roxy Music hit the ground with four albums in two years....

This is the story of a Waffen-Ss unit attacking an American held town in the Ardennes in 1945....

A film review drawing on archive concert film of Black Sabbath in performance and documentary footage from television and radio archives around the world....

Documentary about the writing of the final part of the Lord of the Rings...

A critical guide to the music of Marc Bolan and T. Rex from early success through to the very last recordings and Marc's tragic death. The 'talking heads' present criticisms and takes on the band's meteoric rise, fall, and all-too-short comeback peri...

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was recorded at a show at the Royal Albert Hall during the Black Moon tour in October 1992. Highlights of the album include a 9 minute outfreakage of "Tarkus", the song "Blac...

Robert Powell narrates this engrossing exploration of one of France and Britain's most thrilling and decisive conflicts: the Battle of Trafalgar. The event unraveled on Oct. 21, 1805, when British admiral Lord Nelson and his 27 ships defeated an assa...

This documentary showcases the New Jersey rock band’s best moments through performance footage, candid interviews with journalists, and more....

Steve Hackett's reputation was founded on his outstanding guitar playing with Genesis covering much of the 1970s and encompassing Nursery Cryme through to Seconds Out. Having left the band in 1977, Steve built on the success of his earlier solo outin...

The documentary Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring traces the journey taken by the characters in the classic novel. In addition to offering insight into the characters, the filmmakers show what real-life works shaped the author's imagination...

Filmed on location at Houlgate Village near York, a working Anglo-Saxon settlement, this DVD provides incredible insight into a period of which little is known. The Dark Age is shrouded in mystery - Who were the Anglo-Saxons? How did they live? What ...