16 October 2009 Factual, Music, TV Movie 88 mins
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
Watch the official Synth Britannia 2009 trailer in HD below or find more Synth Britannia videos on Vidimovie.
Vince Clarke as Self
Martin Gore as Self
Bernard Sumner as Self
Gary Numan as Self
Neil Tennant as Self
Phil Oakey as Self
John Foxx as Self
Daniel Miller as Self
Chris Lowe as Self
Marc Almond as Self
David Ball as Self
Martyn Ware as Self
Joanne Catherall as Self
Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher as Self
Wolfgang Flür as Self
Paul Humphreys as Self
Benjamin Whalley Director
United States 16 October 2009
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Synth Britannia:
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late ...
Transmission Date: BBC FOUR FRIDAY 16th OCTOBER AT 9PM In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League Cabaret ...
Synth Britannia (2009) Director: Ben Whalley Contributors include Philip Oakey Vince Clarke Martin Gore Bernard Sumner Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Gary Numan was featured on this program about synthesiser music in october 2009.
The Throbbing Gristle section from BBC Four's Synth Britannia documentary featuring Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti being interviewed.
JG Ballard on Synth Britannia - Gary Numan's Cars featuring clips of Harley Cokliss' Crash! (1971) with JG Ballard and Gabrielle Drake.
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03 December 2009
Nikki Blue is a dancer at a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice, a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop.
03 August 2009
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
04 November 2009
A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros" by mmanuel Demarcy-Mota.
05 June 2009
The end of the 18th century. In California, in the "New World" of America, people suffer beneath Spanish despotism and hope their saviour will come.
07 July 2009
A short documentary about Vince Guaraldi, the composer most well known for his work on several 'Peanuts' animated television specials.
13 September 2009
Mao and Chiang Kai-shek during some decisive moments in the battle over the fate of China.
26 June 2009
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger.
11 July 2009
Maybe if you knew where your Teddy Bear came from you wouldn't hug him so tightly.
02 June 2009
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom.
18 November 2009
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf.
02 October 2009
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass.
01 January 2009
After accepting the job as vicar at a remote parish, eccentric cleric Frederick Densham promptly alienates his conservative congregation.
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