Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

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The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to find out more...

Byambasuren Davaa's follow-up to ‘The Story of the Weeping Camel' is a low key drama-documentary style tale of a nomadic family on the Mongolian steppes. Using the adoption by one of three young children of a stray dog as the narrative centrepiece to build a picture round, we observe many aspects of a disappearing lifestyle; riding horses, skinning a goat, sewing clothes, the costumes themselves, riding horses, cooking food, dismantling a yurt, moving home et al. Excellent fare for anyone, inclu find out more...