Arena
Overview
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
First air date
01/10/1975
Votes
9
Popularity
10.2
Season 1
Season 14
Season 50
Original Soundtrack
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James Bond Confidentiel
The Movies That Made Us
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
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Looking for the Hobbit
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Pyros: Painting with Fire
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Inside Legacy Cinema
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La Course Destination Monde
Mr. Scorsese
How To with John Wilson
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America