Traces the career of the cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, responsible for the photography on films like `The Conformist', `Last Tango in Paris', `The Last Emperor', `Dick Tracy' and `The Sheltering Sky'.Follows Storaro at work with Francis Coppola, Warren Beatty and Bernardo Bertolucci. Explores Storaro's methods of working and his philosophy of lighting.

A program about Chicago blues music. It arose as southern jazz musicians moved north after the Second World War.

Programme about escapologist Harry Houdini.

David Thompson's beguiling documentary on Renoir's life and work, made for the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Born 100 years ago, Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is considered by many the greatest of film directors. Omnibus presents a two-part investigation of Renoir's life and career, coinciding with a short season of his films on BBC2. The son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean's career began in the silent era but his most acclaimed films date from the 1930s. His films are said to reflect his father's love of nature and deep humanity, and have long been an inspiration to other directors as well as audiences.

Part Two, "Hollywood and Beyond\" begins with his 1941 arrival in Hollywood, unhappy experiences at 20th Century Fox, and subsequent career that produced titles like \"This Land is Mine\",\"The Diary of a Chambermaid\" and the Indian-set \"The River.\" He returned to Europe to make such films as \"The Golden Coach\" and \"French Cancan,\" but lived out his final years in a modest house in Beverly Hills. Sad ending notes that on his final film, \"Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir\" (1969), he was initially refused an advance. Including rare archive footage and BBC interviews with Renoir himself.

Boy George shot to the top of the charts in the early 80s with such hit singles as Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Karma Chameleon. His flamboyant clothes and androgynous image made him an instant celebrity - but then things began to go wrong. His band, Culture Club, split up and by 1986 the singer was hooked on heroin. That could have been the end of his story, but it wasn't because George beat his addiction and, at 32, is back on top. Now more man than Boy, George himself, his parents and friends talk frankly about his career, his sexuality, his drug experiences and the new-found stability which his religion and new lifestyle have brought him. Filmed against a background of a trip to America, Omnibus reveals a funny, complex, sensitive survivor.

Broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 21 December 1993, this edition of Omnibus includes considerable stage footage of the Los Angeles production of Sunset Boulevard, which opened in December 1993.