Rudolf Nureyev

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide - that actor was Rudolph Valentino. Ballroom dancer Valentino manipulated his good looks and animal-like grace into a Hollywood career. His smouldering love making, tinged with a touch of masterful cruelty, expressed a sexuality which was at once both shocking and sensual. (imdb)

Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from Les Sylphides and The Sleeping Beauty. (imdb)

The history of dance depicted on film. (imdb)

Documentary about Rudolf Nureyev. Features segments from four works: "La Sylphide" (with Carla Fracci); "Field Figures" (with Deanne Bergsma); "Marguerite and Armand" (with Margot Fonteyn); and "The Sleeping Beauty" (with Lynn Seymour). Between these segments we are shown some classroom, backstage and rehearsal footage.

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear... ((imdb))

A documentary about the life and career of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

This feature length documentary focuses on the talented choreographer, Pierre Lacotte & his muse Ghislaine Thesmar, prima ballerina & highly skilled professor at the Opéra de Paris. They dedicated their whole life to the Ballet. Pierre Lacotte dancer and choreographer, has composed the most beautiful choreographies performed by the prima ballerinas of the Bolchoï, the Kirov and the Opéra de Paris. A Life for ballet explores 60 years of ballet through archives unseen before. (idfa.nl)

A feast for the senses - an authoritative history of the best ballets and the finest ballerinas. As courtesans, fashion icons, political pawns and international celebrities, the great ballerinas have played a multitude of roles both on and off the stage. British prima ballerina Darcey Bussell explores the changing role of the ballerina from 18th-century France to 1950s America.

Traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev from his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented adulation as the most famous dancer in the world. The film highlights Nureyev's unlikely yet legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn and charts his meteoric rise to the status of global cultural phenomenon. Nureyev's life plays out like the sweeping plot of a classic Russian novel. (imdb)

A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery. (imdb)