Arena - Season 13 / Year 1987

Arena - Season 13 / Year 1987

Season 13 / Year 1987

Network
DatesJan 16, 1987 - Dec 4, 1987
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Episodes

Stand by Your Dream (The Tammy Wynette Story)
Year 1987Episode 190 min

Stand by Your Dream (The Tammy Wynette Story)

Jan 16, 1987
Night and Day
Year 1987Episode 290 min

Night and Day

A 24 hour journey through the streets of London as seen by two writers. Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard explores the daylight hours, with thriler writer Celia Fremlin walking the hours of darkness.
Jan 23, 1987
Dennis Potter
Year 1987Episode 360 min

Dennis Potter

Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years, touching on subjects such as why and how he started writing and his attempt to enter politics.

Jan 30, 1987
Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
Year 1987Episode 490 min

Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas

Story of photographer Martin Chambi, a Peruvian Indian whose photographs of the Inca ruins and Peruvian society brought him to the forefront of revolutionary artistic and social movements in South America in the 1930's.
Feb 6, 1987
Confessions of Robert Crumb
Year 1987Episode 590 min

Confessions of Robert Crumb

Feb 13, 1987
Ruth, Roses and Revolver
Year 1987Episode 690 min

Ruth, Roses and Revolver

Director David Lynch presents a guide to the work of the Surrealists.
Feb 20, 1987
A Brother with Perfect Timing
Year 1987Episode 790 min

A Brother with Perfect Timing

Documentary on jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, a South African who moved to Amer ica in 1965. His music uses a blend of jazz and the traditional styles of South Africa.
Feb 27, 1987
Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema
Year 1987Episode 890 min

Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema

Beyond the edges of the frame influential filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.
Mar 13, 1987
Putting Ourselves in the Picture
Year 1987Episode 990 min

Putting Ourselves in the Picture

Mar 20, 1987
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Year 1987Episode 1090 min

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

Maria Von Trapp, Bob Guccione, Martin Scorsese, Mary O'Hara, Tony Monopoly and o thers talk about their training to become Roman Catholic monks, priests or nuns, and also discuss the similarity between the church and the world of arts and entertainment.
Mar 27, 1987
Bayan Ko Pilipinas
Year 1987Episode 1190 min

Bayan Ko Pilipinas

Apr 3, 1987
Talk is Cheap
Year 1987Episode 1290 min

Talk is Cheap

Apr 10, 1987
Night Moves
Year 1987Episode 1390 min

Night Moves

Documentary on the personalities and machines of the trucking industry in Great Britain.
Apr 11, 1987
The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing
Year 1987Episode 1460 min

The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing

In this first episode, Waugh's early years are explored from his childhood and Oxford University days through to his first failed marriage and his early writing success with classics such as Decline and Fall.

Apr 18, 1987
The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair and the Jungle
Year 1987Episode 1560 min

The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair and the Jungle

This second episode explores Waugh's time in Africa as a journalist and spans the Second World War. After years of negotiating with the church of Rome, Waugh is finally free to marry his second wife Laura.

Apr 19, 1987
The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home
Year 1987Episode 1660 min

The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home

The final episode examines Waugh's deteriorating health in his latter years.

Apr 20, 1987
Joseph Beuys
Year 1987Episode 1790 min

Joseph Beuys

Documentary tracing the career of controversial German artist Joseph Beuys, from World War II up to his death in 1986.
Jun 6, 1987
Revolutionary with a Paintbox
Year 1987Episode 1890 min

Revolutionary with a Paintbox

A profile of Diego Rivera. The portrait compiles testimony from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, ex-model and lover Bolores Olmedo and painter Jose Luis Cuevas. There is archive footage of Zapata, Trotsky and Rivera himself.
Nov 20, 1987
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
Year 1987Episode 1990 min

Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell

A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of con tract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version of Daniel De foe's "Moll Flanders" which Guccione hired Russell to direct.
Nov 27, 1987
Invisible Ink
Year 1987Episode 2090 min

Invisible Ink

Documentary on the writings of Indians who travelled to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and wrote about their experiences.
Dec 4, 1987

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