From his daring defection to his meteoric rise, this portrait of ballet’s first global superstar is as captivating as the man himself.
Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain
documentary

This is the story of how the most famous dancer that England ever produced was deceived and betrayed by those closest to her; of hos a little girl called Peggy Hookham, brought up in Shanghai, told her mother she would one day become the greatest dancer in the world; and of how, in spite of being almost unable to walk, she was still performing when she was 67.