Most Viewed From BBC Arena

A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Guillermo Díaz

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lili Taylor

An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Armistead Maupin

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louise Brooks

A remarkable guided tour through the culinary world of Elvis Presley, in his later years famed as much for his appetite as for his music. The King's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Anderson

Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Harold Pinter

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Chabon

Arena cameras were on hand to film the return of Dire Straits from their triumphant 1980 Brothers in Arms world tour. The film features a superb...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mark Knopfler

This British documentary is more than an analysis of John Lennon's song "Imagine" and its ramifications for the world we live in, it's a tentative...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lennon

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bette Davis

Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Anka

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly...

Genre:

Cast: Elizabeth McGovern

A profile of British painter, Francis Bacon.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Francis Bacon

Beryl Bainbridge on Samuel Johnson and her novel According To Queenie - Johnson through the eyes of Queenie Thrale, the eldest daughter of Henry and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beryl Bainbridge

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Phil Spector is a pioneer of American music, a legendary producer to John Lennon and Tina Turner, and, as of April 13th 2009, a convicted murderer....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phil Spector

Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a semiconfessional view of her life's landscape....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sandra Bernhard

An affectionate look at what goes on behind the scenes of the Limelight Club in Crewe, where for ten years tribute acts to the likes of Jimi Hendrix,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ray Bispham

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Plomley