Christopher Challis

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Documentary about the making of the 1948 British film, including interviews with members of the production team.

Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over on Braggius, his archrival at the men's club. Things look bleak when his champ proves to have a glass jaw. But his son and slave have an idea which may just save the day!

Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over on Braggius, his archrival at the men's club. Things look bleak when his champ proves to have a glass jaw. But his son and slave have an idea which may just save the day!