Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
Arena Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1983 - 1984
Episode 1
Borges and I
Episode 2
Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano
60 mins
A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera.
Episode 3
Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
Episode 4
Jazz Juke-Box II
Episode 5
Roman Vishniac
Episode 6
The GPO Story
Episode 7
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
Episode 8
George Orwell - Part 1: Such, Such Were the Joys
Episode 9
George Orwell - Part 2: The Road to Wigan Pier
Episode 10
George Orwell - Part 3: Homage to Catalonia
Episode 11
George Orwell - Part 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
Episode 12
George Orwell - Part 5: Nineteen Eighty-Four
54 mins
Last in the series about George Orwell, beginning in 1945 with the death of his wife and covering his subsequent self-imposed exile to Jura and the writing of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.'
Episode 13
Say Amen Someone
Episode 14
Dame Edna Everage: A Birthday Tribute
Episode 15
Four Rooms
Episode 16
The Theatre of Dario Fo
Episode 17
Sunset People
Episode 18
The Caravaggio Conspiracy
Through reconstructions with real-life participants, documents the undercover activities of British journalist Peter Watson as he tries to recover stolen masterpieces in Italy over a three-year period beginning in 1979.
Episode 19
Between Dreaming and Waking
Episode 20
Ken Russell 's Elgar
Episode 21
Jerry Lee Lewis
Episode 22
True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Episode 23
My Dinner with Louis
53 mins
An archival episode of the BBC series Arena in which Wallace Shawn and Louis Malle meet in Atlantic City and talk about cinema, the controversy a few of the French director's films created during the years, some of the more prominent themes and conflicts in his films, his journey to India, his work in America, etc. The episode was broadcast in 1982. In English, not subtitled. (53 min). 1. Human decay and growth 2. Quests, scandals, and wars 3. A monster prodigy 4. Incomprehensible India 5. Traveling with Cousteau 6. Two films about right and wrong 7. Our confused capitalist country 8. Fiction and documentary.
Episode 24
Milan Kundera - Laughter and Forgetting
Episode 25
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History
60 mins
