Nicholas D. Knowland Movies

Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...

John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace."...

A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.

Take It or Leave It is an autobiographical account of the cult '80s British pop group Madness, with members of the group playing themselves, charting...

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at...

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose...

One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or...

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their...

A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his work. Studies pictures from the beginning of his...

The story of Henry Purcell.

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South...

Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.

Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest and most successful race horses in history and...

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

A young boy's games lead him into an uncanny dreamworld. This film uses intricate digital effects to create Chinese boxes; worlds within worlds.

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.