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Arena (1975)

Arena poster
Genre
documentary film, documentary television program
Country
United Kingdom
Length
4 seasons, 695 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A BBC documentary series that started in 1975. It covers many different subjects with episodes directed by various filmmakers.

informativeeclecticunhurriedthoughtfulobservationalstylishvaried

What happens

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975. Voted by TV executives in Broadcast magazine as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has produced more than six hundred episodes directed by, among others, Frederick Baker, Jana Boková, Jonathan Demme, Nigel Finch, Mary Harron, Vikram Jayanti, Vivian Kubrick, Paul Lee, Adam Low, Bernard MacMahon, James Marsh, Leslie Megahey, Volker Schlondorff, Martin Scorsese, Julien Temple, Anthony Wall, Leslie Woodhead, and Alan Yentob. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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