Arena Season 48 Episodes

Episode 1

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

Documentary that follows Björn Andrésen, the boy catapulted to fame when Luchino Visconti chose him to play Tadzio in his screen adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

Episode 2

River

68 mins

River takes its audience on a journey through space and time spanning six continents, showing rivers on a scale and from perspectives never seen before.

Episode 3

James Joyce's Ulysses

A hundred years after its publication, this film reveals the tawdry, shocking, poetic, uplifting and gloriously kaleidoscopic humanity of James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.

Episode 4

TS Eliot: Into 'The Waste Land'

An exploration of TS Eliot's The Waste Land, in its centenary year, that for the first time uncovers the personal story behind Eliot's creation of his celebrated poem.

Episode 5

Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters

A visually arresting film that documents the story of Haiti's rich past, through an annual carnival in a small southern town.