ITV1 1955 - 2003 1 season 7 eps Ended

Around the World with Orson Welles

Name: Around the World with Orson Welles
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Orson Welles, Chris Wertenbaker, Art Buchwald, Lael Wertenbaker, Raymond Duncan

1955 - 2003 1 season 7 eps

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Season 1

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25 min

S1 · E1 · Oct 7, 1955

Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries Episode 1

Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after spending 23 years in Colorado.

7.5 · You

25 min

S1 · E2 · Oct 21, 1955

Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque Episode 2

Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants — jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.

7.4 · You

25 min

S1 · E3 · Nov 4, 1955

Revisiting Vienna Episode 3

Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.

7.6 · You

25 min

S1 · E4 · Nov 18, 1955

Saint-Germain-des-Pres Episode 4

Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing new letters to describe sounds and night clubs featuring musicians playing hot jazz.

7.4 · You

25 min

S1 · E5 · Dec 2, 1955

London: The Queen's Pensioners Episode 5

Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's Chelsea home.

7.3 · You

25 min

S1 · E6 · Dec 16, 1955

Spain: The Bullfight Episode 6

Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.

7.5 · You

26 min

S1 · E7 · Apr 12, 2003

France: The Tragedy of Lurs Episode 7

The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign. The episode was ultimately unfinished, but French filmmaker Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary for TV5 broadcast in 2003.

7.3 · You

7 episodes in Season 1

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Around the World with Orson Welles

Season 1

Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries Episode 1