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Arena

1975 – nowShow1 season · 692 episodesNRReturning

Documentary
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.7
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.7

Summary

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC.

Good for

  • Family movie night
  • Friends night
  • Teens

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  • Teaches you something.
  • Feels like real life.

Not for scares, laughs or brutality.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Arena episodes

1 season · 692 episodes

  1. S1 E1 Theatre, 7.0
  1. S3 E17 Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist, 7.8
  2. S3 E30 Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?, 6.6
  1. S4 E10 Who Is Poly Styrene?, 6.9
  2. S4 E19 My Way, 6.5
  3. S4 E24 Tell Us the Truth, 7.4
  1. S5 E1 Six Days in September, 6.8
  2. S5 E9 Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone, 7.5
  3. S5 E11 Profiles of Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar, 6.6
  1. S6 E1 Making 'The Shining', 7.6
  2. S6 E2 Dire Straits, 7.1
  3. S6 E3 Chelsea Hotel, 7.3
  1. S7 E2 I Thought I Was Taller: A Short History of Mel Brooks, 7.7
  2. S7 E5 A Pretty British Affair, 7.5
  3. S7 E9 The Private Life of the Ford Cortina, 7.1
  4. S7 E13 Desert Island Discs, 7.6
  5. S7 E15 The Orson Welles Story: Part 1, 8.8
  6. S7 E16 The Orson Welles Story: Part 2, 8.7
  1. S8 E1 Mike Leigh Making Plays, 6.9
  2. S8 E2 A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton, 8.1
  3. S8 E14 Burroughs, 7.6
  4. S8 E17 It's All True, 8.2
  5. S8 E18 The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel, 7.4
  1. S9 E2 Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano, 8.2
  2. S9 E7 The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert, 7.4
  3. S9 E23 My Dinner with Louis, 7.2
  4. S9 E25 Beat This!: A Hip Hop History, 8.0
  1. S10 E1 The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience, 7.8
  2. S10 E2 Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day, 7.7
  3. S10 E16 Ligmalion - a Musical for The 80s, 8.6
  1. S11 E1 The Real Buddy Holly Story, 8.3
  2. S11 E5 The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima, 6.9
  3. S11 E15 Louise Brooks, 7.7
  1. S12 E1 Salvador Dali, 7.6
  2. S12 E9 Dennis Potter, 6.3
  3. S12 E11 The Confessions of Robert Crumb, 7.3
  4. S12 E12 Ruth, Roses and Revolver, 6.7
  1. S13 E6 Woody Guthrie, 8.2
  2. S13 E7 The Dandy-Beano Story, 7.0
  3. S13 E11 My Name Is Celia Cruz, 7.0
  4. S13 E15 Robert Mapplethorpe, 7.8
  1. S14 E12 John Cassavetes, 8.8
  2. S14 E17 Heavy Metal, 7.2
  1. S15 E15 Paris Is Burning, 6.8
  2. S15 E23 Oooh Er, Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story, or Please Yourselves, 6.8
  1. S16 E1 Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait, 7.1
  2. S16 E10 The Very Strange Story of... The Legendary Joe Meek, 7.6
  3. S16 E17 Hollywood Babylon, 5.7
  1. S17 E2 Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 1, 7.8
  2. S17 E3 Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 2, 7.9
  3. S17 E4 Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 3, 8.1
  4. S17 E5 Masters of the Canvas, 6.8
  5. S17 E13 Armistead Maupin, 7.6
  1. S18 E8 Edward Said: The Idea of Empire, 7.4
  2. S18 E9 The Last Soviet Citizen, 6.7
  3. S18 E16 Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue, 6.8
  4. S18 E18 Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel, 7.5
  5. S18 E19 Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side, 8.2
  1. S19 E1 In Search of Oz, 7.0
  2. S19 E6 Glitterbug, 6.5
  3. S19 E14 Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife, 7.5
  1. S20 E1 The Peter Sellers Story Part 1: Southsea to Shepperton, 8.3
  2. S20 E2 The Peter Sellers Story Part 2: Jack to Jacques, 8.6
  3. S20 E3 The Peter Sellers Story Part 3: "I Am Not a Funny Man", 8.5
  1. S21 E1 The Burger and the King, 7.2
  2. S21 E3 Tony Bennett 's New York, 6.6
  1. S22 E2 Dear Antonioni, 8.5
  1. S23 E1 The Noel Coward Trilogy - Part 1: The Boy Actor, 9.0
  2. S23 E4 Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century, 7.1
  3. S23 E5 The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow - Part 1, 7.7
  4. S23 E6 The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows - Part 2, 7.1
  1. S24 E6 Blondes: Diana Dors, 7.5
  2. S24 E7 Blondes: Anita Ekberg, 7.6
  1. S25 E4 Clint Eastwood - Part 1: Out of the West, 7.4
  2. S25 E5 Clint Eastwood - Part 2: American Filmmaker, 7.6
  1. S26 E8 Sykes and a Day, 7.2
  2. S26 E10 Drake's Progress, 5.5
  3. S26 E11 The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part One, 7.9
  4. S26 E12 The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part Two, 8.3
  1. S27 E3 Harold Pinter Part 1: The Room, 7.0
  2. S27 E4 Harold Pinter Part 2: Celebration, 7.9
  3. S27 E5 One for the Road, 6.8
  1. S28 E2 The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti, 5.0
  2. S28 E4 The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough, 7.6
  3. S28 E7 Dylan Thomas - Grave to Cradle, 7.3
  4. S28 E9 Alec Guinness: A Secret Man, 8.6
  1. S29 E1 Pavarotti: The Last Tenor, 7.6
  2. S29 E3 Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter, 7.3
  3. S29 E4 Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?..., 6.1
  1. S30 E3 Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues, 7.5
  2. S30 E5 Francis Bacon's Arena, 7.1
  3. S30 E10 No Direction Home - Bob Dylan - Part 2, 8.3
  1. S31 E5 Pete Doherty, 6.7
  1. S33 E2 Underground, 7.1
  2. S33 E3 Bob Marley: Exodus 77, 7.2
  3. S33 E6 Bergman and the Cinema, 7.9
  4. S33 E7 Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema, 7.0
  5. S33 E9 Into the Limelight, 6.1
  6. S33 E13 Ken Dodd's Happiness, 6.7
  1. S34 E9 Paul Scofield, 9.4
  1. S35 E3 T.S. Eliot, 6.8
  1. S36 E1 Brian Eno: Another Green World, 7.6
  2. S36 E2 Harold Pinter: A Celebration, 7.8
  1. S37 E1 Produced by George Martin, 7.6
  2. S37 E2 George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 1, 8.4
  3. S37 E3 George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 2, 8.2
  1. S38 E3 Sonny Rollins '74-Rescued!, 7.4
  2. S38 E4 The Dreams of William Golding, 7.6
  3. S38 E6 Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle, 7.8
  4. S38 E7 Magical Mystery Tour Revisited: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - Part 1, 6.8
  5. S38 E9 Screen Goddesses, 8.0
  6. S38 E10 Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel, 8.3
  1. S39 E2 The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream, 7.7
  2. S39 E3 The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace, 8.0
  1. S40 E1 Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?, 6.4
  2. S40 E3 The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books, 7.0
  1. S41 E1 Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time, 7.6
  1. S42 E1 Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl, 7.1
  2. S42 E2 All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film, 6.9
  3. S42 E3 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today, 7.2
  1. S43 E1 Alone with Chrissie Hynde, 6.9
  2. S43 E6 American Epic - Part 4: The Sessions, 9.1
  1. S44 E1 Stanley and His Daughters, 7.8
  2. S44 E2 Bob Dylan - Trouble No More, 6.4
  1. S45 E1 Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything, 5.8
  2. S45 E3 Cindy Sherman #untitled, 7.4
  3. S45 E6 Bergman: A Year in the Life, 7.7
  4. S45 E8 A British Guide to the End of the World, 8.0
  1. S48 E3 James Joyce's Ulysses, 7.5
  1. S49 E1 Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, 7.3
  2. S49 E3 The Stones and Brian Jones, 7.0
  3. S49 E5 Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned, 7.6
  4. S49 E6 Being Kae Tempest, 6.9
  5. S49 E7 Caroline Aherne: Comedy Queen, 7.7

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